dc.description.abstract | This research focused on the parent involvement for high English achieving students. Family is the basic education center for children. Thus, parents make a meaningful influence on their children’s development. Also, for their children’s development, they should have to be a responsibility to lead and support. Furthermore, there is still a lack of information focuses on the parent involvement in a high English achieving student. Besides, the location and the participant in this research is different. Based on the factors above, the researcher would like to investigate the parental involvement in their children as students who have high English achievement.
The design of this reserach is descriptive qualitative design. This study conducted qualitative research to obtain numerous replies and acquire deeper data. The participants of this reserach are three parents of student who has a high English achieving in grade 7F at MTsN 1 Lumajang to find out the parental involvement on high English achievement students. The research study conducted uses interviews taken during each of the interview sessions during which parents described their experiences of involvement in their children of English achievement. The interview sessions were semi-structured with open-ended questions.
The findings of this study showed the parents have some roles in their children’s academic such as, parental involvement outside the school as a partner and a coordinator. Besides, parents’ economy, parents work schedule, and parents awareness, also be the other point of their involvement. The parents who are involved in their children's education give their children more encouragement to do well in school and are more interested in what they are learning. Thus, this reasearch will give a new information for parents to have more awarness about their rule as a parent and for future researcher to discuss another aspect of parents’ role. In brief, the parents involvement to their child academic will give a good communication between the students and the parents. Keywords: Parental Involvement, English Achievement, High Achieving Student. | en_US |