A study of relationship between out-of-class language learning acitivities and English language achievement among Senior High School students / Retno Wulansari

Main Author: Wulansari, Retno
Format: Thesis NonPeerReviewed
Terbitan: , 2019
Online Access: http://repository.um.ac.id/71749/
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  • ABSTRACTWulansariRetno.2019.AStudyofRelationshipbetweenOut-of-classLanguageLearningActivitiesandEnglishLanguageAchievementamongSeniorHighSchoolStudents.ThesisDepartmentofEnglishFacultyofLettersStateUniversityofMalangAdvisors(1)Dr.EkaningDewantiLaksmiM.Pd.M.A.(II)RahmatiPutriYaniafariS.Pd.M.Pd.Keywordsrelationshipout-of-classlanguagelearningEnglishlanguageachievement.Out-of-classlanguagelearningactivitiesisanimportantelementforSeniorHighSchoolStudentsbecauseitcansupportEnglishlearningintheclassroom.Studentsareexpectedtohavevariousactivitieswhichsupportthemtousethetargetlanguagebeyondtheclassroom.Thewillingnessthatthestudentshavetodeliberatelypracticegoodlanguagelearningactivitieswillmakethemtobegoodlanguagelearners.Goodlanguagelearnerscanbeconsideredasautonomouslearnersinwhichtheyengagethemselvestoanykindsofout-of-classlanguagelearningactivities.AsaresulttheirEnglishskillsandachievementintheschoolincrease.Howevermanystudentsdonotrealizethatdoingout-of-classlanguagelearningwillleadthemtosuccessinmasteringEnglishandgetagoodEnglishtestscore.Hencethisstudyaimsatinvestigatingtherelationshipbetweenstudentsout-of-classlanguagelearningactivitiesandSeniorHighSchoolStudentsEnglishlanguageachievement.Thisstudyisacorrelationalstudy.TherearetwokindsofinstrumentsusedinthisstudywhicharequestionnaireandEnglishtest.Thestudywasconductedto71tenthandeleventhgradersstudentsofSMANegeri1Tempeh.Beforeconductingthestudythetryoutphasewasdonetoknowthevalidityandreliabilityoftheinstruments.ThedatawerethenanalysedbyusingSpearmanrankcorrelationcoefficientformulatoknowthecorrelationbetweentwovariables.Theresultoftheanalysisshowedthatthecorrelationcoefficient(61554xy)was.757.Ittheninterpretedby61554table.234using5%ofsignificant.Theresultshowedthatthe61554xywasgreaterthanthe61554table.234.Asaresultthenullhypothesiswasrejectedandthealternativehypothesiswasaccepted.ItmeantthattherewasapositivesignificantcorrelationbetweenthestudentsOut-of-classLanguageLearningActivities(OCLLA)andtheirEnglishlanguageachievement.TosumupthisstudyrevealsthatthehigherthescoreofthestudentsOut-of-classLanguageLearningActivities(OCLLA)thehigherscoresoftheEnglishlanguageachievementtheyget.Fromthisresultfurtherresearcherswhoareinterestedinconductingthesimilarstudyaresuggestedtoconductastudyusingexpostfactotorevealcauseandeffectrelationship.