The Relationship Between The Students’ Learning Motivation and The Students’ Reading Comprehension At The Seventh Grade Students of SMPN 6 Ciputat In The 2018/2019 Academic Year

dr. nendi juhandi, m.m. ; dr. andi sesu, m.si; dr. h. susilo wardoyo, m.pd.; siswana, m.pd.;

INTAN TRI PUTRI. NIM: 1701059005. The Relationship Between The Students’ Learning Motivation and The Students’ Reading Comprehension At The Seventh Grade Students of SMPN 6 Ciputat In The 2018/2019 Academic Year. A Paper: The Study Programme of English Education, The School of Teacher Training and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, Jakarta, 2019. The paper is intended to know the relationship between students’ learning motivation and students’ reading comprehension at the seventh grade students of SMPN 6 Ciputat in the 2018/2019 academic year. The independent variable (X) is students’ learning motivation, meanwhile the dependent variable (Y) is students’ reading comprehension. The research used quantitative method. The population in this research were 9 classes. In order to accomplish the objective of the research, the wrirer chosed 𝑉𝐼𝐼9 class as a random sample sampling technique. This class consists of 36 students. The technique of collecting data to find the score of students’ learning motivation, the writer used the questionaire technique non test, while to find the score of students’ reading comprehension, the writer used multiple choice questions. After analzing the data using IBM SPSS ver. 24, it was found that both sample data (X Variable and Y Variable) have been normally Distributed because 𝑥2𝑜> 𝑥2𝑡 (0,986 > 0,05) for X variable and 0,082 > 0,05 for Y variable. Then the writer analyzed the data by using Pearson’s Product Moment in IMB SPSS ver. 24 to analyze the relationship btween students’ learning motivation (X variable) and students’ reading comprehension (Y variable). The result shows that 𝑟𝑜 > 0,05 (0,67 > 0,05). Then, the writer concluded that there is no relationship between students’ learning motivation and students’ reading comprehension at the seventh grade students of SMPN 6 Ciputat in the 2018/2019 academic year., so, it can not to continue be analyze the significant correlation test.