The Factors of Students’ Listening Difficulties of the Eleventh Grade Students of 6 Senior High School Depok on the Second Semester in 2019/2020 Academic Year” mini thesis. Jakarta

nani indrayani; silih warni, ph.d;

In collecting the data, the writer uses a questionnaire to measure students' motivation which is adopted from R.C. Gardner, Attitude Motivation Test Battery (AMTB) and to measure students reading comprehension ability the writer uses reading comprehension test. The data are collected and calculated by using Pearson Product Moment Coefficient Correlation. The writer finds that the ro 0,842 is higher than rt 0,34 (ro > rt ) from the result of calculating by using the Pearson Product Moment Coefficient Correlation. The result can be concluded that the research hypothesis Ho is rejected and Hi accepted. From the conclusion, it can be proved that the verbal hypothesis has been accepted. Then, ro 0,842 it means that 𝜌 xy is higher than zero points. Thus, the statistical hypothesis has been accepted too. Those can prove that there is a relationship between the students’ motivation and the reading comprehension at the tenth grade in the first semester at the SMKN 8 Bekasi of the 2020/2021 academic year. The research result, the writer hopes that this research is useful for the English teacher and reader.