THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND THEIR READING ACHIEVEMENTS ON THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 15 TANGERANG

tiara shafira; burhayani, m. pd.; yudhistira maesyaroh, m. a.;

AGNES MAZZELA. NIM: 1001065008. THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION AND THEIR READING
ACHIEVEMENTS ON THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMAN 15
TANGERANG. A Paper. Jakarta: The English Study Programme, The School of
Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. Dr.
Hamka.
The objective of the study is to find whether there is a relationship between
students‟ motivation and their reading achievements on the eleventh grade
students of SMAN 15 Tangerang.
The method of this study is survey research. The populations of this study
were the students of SMAN 15 Tangerang at the eleventh grade 2014/2015
academic year, consists of 175 students who were distributed into 5 classes in the
science class, and 148 students who were distributed into 4 classes from the social
class. From the 9 classes in the SMAN 15 Tangerang, the writer took one class as
a sample XI IPA 1 grade, which consists of 34 students by using cluster sampling.
In this study, the instruments used for getting the data are questionnaire for
students‟ motivation and test for reading test. The scores are calculated by using
Pearson‟s Product Moment.
From the calculation of Pearson‟s Product Moment, it is resulted the ro=
0.97, n = 34 while the table of correlation with df= 30 in 0.05 of the significant
standard give the rt= 0.349. Because the ro higher than rt (0.97 > 0.349). As the
consequence, Ho is rejected and Hi is accepted. It means that there is a significant
relationship between students‟ motivation and their reading achievements on the
eleventh grade students of SMAN 15 Tangerang.