The Relationship between Motivation and Reading Achievement of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMKN 57 South Jakarta in 2016/2017 Academic Year

(et.al.); drs. h. susilo wardoyo, m.pd; nita kaniadewi, m.pd.;

DINI MAULIDA, The Relationship between Motivation and Reading Achievement of the Eleventh Grade Students of SMKN 57 South Jakarta in 2016/2017 Academic Year. A paper, Jakarta. The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA 2017.
This paper was intended to know whether or not there was a relationship between motivation and reading achievement of the eleventh grade students of SMKN 57 South Jakarta in 2016/2017 academic year. The independent variable (X) was the motivation and the dependent variable (Y) was reading achievement.
The research used a quantitative survey method. The population in this research was the 351 students of eleventh grade of SMKN 57 South Jakarta which had been distributed into twelve classes. The writer used random sampling technique. From those samples, the writer took only 30 students who belonged to XI Class of Jasa Boga 2 as the sample of the research. To obtain the data of X Variable (motivation), the writer distributed questionnaire consisted of 30 items. To obtain the data of Y Variable (reading achievement), the writer used a reading test consisted of 30 items.
After analyzing the data, it was found that the data of both samples of the X and Y Variables had been normally distributed. The correlation found was robserved = 0,550 and rtable = 0,394 in a significant 0,95 with n = 30. Because robserved ˃ rtable, Hₒ was rejected and Hi was accepted. It meant that there had been a relationship between motivation and reading achievement of the eleventh grade students of SMKN 57 South Jakarta in the 2016/2017 Academic Year.