THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION

Andimari Purbo, Cucu Starsyah, Edhita Gloria Simanjuntak

Abstract


Abstract:

The objective of this research was to find out whether there is a

significant correlation between students’ motivation and their reading

comprehension achievement.

This research was conducted at second grade of SMA Negeri 1 Terbanggi Besar

of academic year 2011/2012. The writer took XI IPA 1 as experimental class to

measure validity and reliability of research instrument and the writer chose XI

IPA 3 as the sample of the research. In collecting the data, the writer distributed

the questionnaire to find out the students’ motivation in learning English and gave

reading comprehension test to measure students’ ability in reading

comprehension. This research design was Ex Post Facto design. Pearson Product

Moment was used to analyze the data and the hypothesis testing was computed by

using SPSS version 17.0 at the level significant of 0.05.

After giving instrument to experimental class, the writer analyzed the data, it was

found that reliability of students’ motivation was 0.861. It meant that students’

motivation instrument had very high reliability. The result of reliability of reading

comprehension was 0.906. It meant that reading comprehension instrument had

very high reliability. After calculating the data, the writer found that the

coefficient correlation was 0.483. It was classified into moderate correlation.

The r value (0.483) was higher than r-table (0.388) at the level of significance

0.05. It meant that Ho was rejected and the Hi was accepted.

From the result of the research, it can be concluded that there was significant

correlation between students’ motivation and their reading comprehension

achievement. The coefficient correlation was 0,483. It was classified into

moderate correlation. the researchs’ result can be interpreted that students’

motivation had moderate effect to reading comprehension achievement. The

students who had motivation toward English affect their reading willingness to

read as well as their participation and commitment to study well.

Keywords:

Students’ Motivation, Reading Comprehension Achievement

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