THE CORRELATION AMONG PERSONALITY, ACADEMIC DISHONESTY AND ENGLISH MASTERY OF PRIVATE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN PALEMBANG
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- Learning involves a lot of factors, teachers and students alike. Being good at learning doesn't mean having a good grade or great cognitive achievement but also having good inter/intrapersonal skills. Teacher sometimes forgot that many of their students do not share the same plate of learning eagerness and many of them even having bad personality issues. In this research, writer aimed to find out (1) the personality of private senior high school students in Palembang (2) the English mastery of private senior high school students in Palembang (3) the academic dishonesty of private senior high school students in Palembang (4) any significant correlation between personality and English mastery of private senior high school students in Palembang, (5) any significant correlation between academic dishonesty and English mastery of private senior high school students in Palembang. The sample of this study was 310 students of Private Senior High School. The technique of collecting the data was stratified random sampling. In collecting the data, the writer used two questionnaires and one English test. The first questionnaire was an academic dishonesty questionnaire, the second was personality questionnaire, and the last was English test which consisted of four language skills. The data then were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient in SPSS version 24nd. The results showed that the students’ agreeableness and conscientiousness personality was as majority, the score of academic dishonesty was low for the majority of the students, and their English mastery was still categorized as poor. Furthermore, analysis showed that there was a significant correlation between academic dishonesty and students’ English mastery with the -value of 0.038 was lower than 0.05. The next result showed that there was no significant correlation between students’ personality and students’ English mastery with the -value of 0.054 was higher than 0.05. Keywords: Correlation, Academic Dishonesty, Personality, English Mastery