THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS’ ANXIETY IN LEARNING ENGLISH AND THEIR READING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 1 JAKARTA IN THE 2013/ 2014 ACADEMIC YEAR

siti nur afifah; drs. sigit sumarsono, m.pd.; siswana, m. pd.;

ARIS SETIAWAN. NIM: 0901065025. The Relationship Between Students’
Anxiety in Learning English and Their Reading Achievement of the Tenth Grade
Students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Jakarta in the 2013/ 2014 Academic Year. A
paper. Jakarta: The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, 2014.
The objective of this research is to get the empirical evidence whether or
not there is a relationship between students’ anxiety in learning English and their
reading achievement of the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1
Jakarta in the 2013/2014 academic year.
The method of the research used was a survey method. The population of
the research consists of 100 students which are divided into 4 classes. The writer
took 30 students as the sample of the research. The writer used questionnaire and
reading test to collect the data. To calculate the correlation between X variable
(students’ anxiety in learning English) and Y variable (reading achievement), the
writer used Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation.
The calculation of Pearson’s Product Moment results the “ro” correlation
0.92. With df= 30 in 0.05 significant standard got “rt” table 0.349. In other words,
r observed is higher than r table (ro > rt). As the consequence, work hypothesis
was accepted and null hypothesis was rejected. It can be concluded that there is
relationship between students’ anxiety in learning English and the their reading
achievement of the tenth grade students of SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Jakarta in the
2013/2014 academic year.