The relationship between students’ learning motivation and their writing skill of descriptive text at the eighth grade students of SMP Islam PB. Soedirman in 2019-2020 academic year

ahmad subaki, s.e., ak, mm. ; sumardi, s.e., m.si; dr. burhayani, m.pd.; heni novitasari, m.pd.;

NOVIANSYAH, Students Number. 1501055078. The relationship between students’ learning motivation and their writing skill of descriptive text at the eighth grade students of SMP Islam PB. Soedirman in 2019-2020 academic year. A paper, Jakarta. The Study Program of English Education, The School of Training Teacher and Education, The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, 2019.
The research used the quantitative survey method. The population in this research was six classes with the total students of eighth grade students of SMP Islam PB. Soedirman 2019/2020 academic year. There were VIII-A, VIII-B, VIII-C, VIII-D, VIII-E, and VIII-F. The writer used the purposive sampling technique. From those samples, the writer took only 35 students of VIII-F class for the sample of this research. To obtain the data of X variable (learning motivation), the writer used the questionnaire consisting of 20 items. To obtained the data of Y variable (writing skill), the writer used the writing test.
After analyzing the data, it was found that both sample data (X and Y) have been normally distributed because Х 2 o < Х 2 t X data (3.79 < 7.81), Y data (6.54 < 7.81). The correlation was r-observed = 0.806 and r-table = 0.325 in significant 0.05 with n = 35. Because r-observed > r-table, so Ho was rejected and Hi was accepted, it proved that there is a significant relationship between students’ learning motivation and writing skill on the eighth grade students of SMP Islam PB. Soedirman in the 2019/2020 academic year.