The relationship between students? reading motivation in english and their reading achievement (a correlational study at ninth grade of SMP Islam Al-Hasanah)
| Main Author: | Isti Farhata |
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| Format: | Bachelors |
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Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan
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Daftar Isi:
- The objective of this research was to know and describe a positive relationship between students? reading motivation in English and their reading achievement at ninth grade students of SMP Islam Al-Hasanah. It covers reading motivation and reading achievement. The method which was used in this research was correlational study. The population of the research was the ninth grade students of SMP Islam Al-Hasanah Kota Tangerang in the 2013/2014 academic year. However, only 60 students were chosen as the sample by using simple random sampling. Furthermore, there were two variables in this research. The first one was students? reading motivation (variable X) and the second one was students? reading achievement (variable Y). The students? reading motivation score was taken from the questionnaire whereas the students? reading achievement was taken from test. In analyzing the data and testing the hypothesis, the writer used Pearson?s Product Moment Correlation formula. From the data analysis, it was found that there is no positive relationship between students? reading motivation and their reading achievement. This result showed the null hypothesis (Ho) is accepted and the alternative hypothesis (H?) is rejected. It can be seen from the result of the obtained rxy = 0.18 is smaller than rt with significance level 0.05 = 0.266 (0.18 < 0.266) and the obtained z? = 1.384 is smaller than zt = 2.00 (1.384 < 2.00).