Students’ Motivation and Students’ Learning Achievement in English Teaching Learning Process

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find a correlation between students’ motivation and students’ learning achievement in English of class VIII at MTs Al-Asas.  Design in this research is a correlation research consisting of two variables, namely students’ motivation as the independent variable and students’ learning achievement as the dependent variable. The sample in this study was 44 students of class VIII at MTs Al-Asas. The instrument to measure students' motivation uses a questionnaire adopted from Attitude/Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) by Gardner and the score of report cards for English subjects is used to measure students’ learning achievement in English. After testing the validity and reliability, the researcher distributed the motivation questionnaire to the sample. Then, the researcher analyzed the correlation between students’ motivation and students’ learning achievement in English using the correlation product moment formula by Pearson with the help of SPSS version 25.0. The finding showed that the value of sig = 0.000<0.05 and the value of r = 0.661. The Alternative Hypothesis is accepted (Ha) and the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected. Therefore, there is a significant correlation between students’ motivation and students ‘learning achievement in English class VIII at MTs Al-Asas.