The Influence of Parental Encouragement On Students' English Achievement

ABSTRACT
Name : Nurul Liza Merianti
Student Id : 231 324 364
Faculty/Major : Education and Teacher Training / English Education
Thesis Tittle : The Influence of Parental Encouragement on Students’ English Achievement (A Study at English Department of UIN Ar-Raniry).
Keywords : Parental Encouragement, Students’ Achievement

Parental encouragement refers to the general process of parents to initiate and direct the behaviour of their childrens’ achievement in learning. The study aims to find out the influence of parental encouragement on students English’ achievement. The data were collected from 70 students of the fourth semester. Quantitative method had been applied and questionnaires was used to collect data and students' GPA were obtained as the indicators students’ achievement. To analyze the influence between parental encouragement on students’ achievement, the writer used a simple linear regression analysis through SPSS. From the result, it showed there was a significant relationship between parental encouragement and students’ achievement. The R square value is 0.642 which means that there was 64,2% of parental encouragement on students' achievement. Therefore, the other 35,8% was from other factors outside the researched variables which can be explained by other variables such as peers and surrounding. In conclusion, the parental encouragement on students’ English achievement are directly affected their GPAs, and it can be achieved by study hard and practice.