| dc.description.abstract | Motivation is the important thing for better achievement in studying
English. The aim of this study is to figure out the correlation between students’
motivation and their English learning achievement at Madrasah Aliyah Hidayatul
Mubtadi’in Lowokwaru Malang. The researcher collected the data from
questionnaire and documentation, then analyzed the data through percentage of
questionnaire using Pearson product moment coefficient of correlation SPSS 20.
This study involved 43 students of second grade Madrasah Aliyah Hidayatul
Mubtadi’in Lowokwaru Malang.
The findings of this research showed that the descriptive statistics analysis
of motivation score of the participants, the maximum score is 69, and minimum
score is 40; the mean of the motivation score is 54.81. For English learning
achievement, the maximum score is 100, and the minimum score is 35, the mean
of the English learning achievement score is 72.79. The relationship is showed by
the .669 Pearson correlation, which is significant at the .05 level, where it is
higher than the .301 correlations coefficient table. This indicated that the null
hypothesis is rejected and the alternative hypothesis is accepted.
In conclusion, the correlation coefficient showed that there was significant
relationship of both variables. There is a correlation between students' motivation
and their English learning achievement. From the statistics above show that
motivation is very influential for 2nd grade students of Madrasah Aliyah Hidayatul
Mubtadi’in Lowokwaru Malang. It means that they had a pretty good motivation
to learn, but still need for development in order to reach optimal learning results. | en_US |
