The Relationship Between Students’ Learning Motivation And Their Writing Skill In Descriptive Text At The Tenth Grade Students Of SMAN 100 Jakarta On The Second Semester In 2018/2019 Academic Year

eka siswanti; drs. susilo wardoyo, m.pd; fidaniar tiarsiwi, m.pd;

Syarifah Nor Rasyidah: 1501055112. “The Relationship Between Students’ Learning Motivation and Their Writing Skill in Descriptive Text at The Tenth Grade Students of SMAN 100 Jakarta on The Second Semester in 2018/2019 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. 2019.
The purpose of the research is to get the empirical data of whether or not there is relationship between the motivation and the ability to write descriptive text of the tenth grade students of SMAN 100 Jakarta in the 2018/2019 Academic Year. The research was started in September and finished in November 2019.
The sample of the research was X IPA 3 and the participants consisted of 35 students. The method was quantitative data by using questionnaire to obtain the data of the motivation and descriptive writing instruction for measuring the skill to write descriptive text.
The finding of the research showed that the calculation of correlation analysis by Pearson Product Moment was (ro) 0.54 higher than (rt) 0.32 in the level significance P = 0.05 with n = 35, then to be continued to figure out significance analysis whose result was (to) 3.51 higher than tt 1.70. It means that there was a relationship between learning motivation and writing skill in descriptive text