The Relationship between Parents’ Socioeconomic Status and Students’ English Achievement of Eleventh Grade of SMKN 24 East Jakarta in 2019/2020 Academic Year

a wagiyo; sri mulyono; susanto; nita kaniadewi, m. pd;

WARDA LESSY. Student Identity Number: 1501055117. The relationship between parents’ socioeconomic status and students’ english achievement of eleventh grade of SMKN 24 East Jakarta in 2019/2020 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.
This research was intended to know whether or not there was a relationship between parents’ socioeconomic status and students’ English achievement of the eleventh grade students of SMKN 24 East Jakarta in the 2019/2020 academic year. The independent variable (X) was the parents’ socioeconomic status, meanwhile the dependent variable (Y) was students’ English achievement. The research used quantitative method. The population in this research was five classes of the eleventh grade with 169 students. The writer used purposive sampling technique. From those samples, the writer took only 34 students who belonged to XI Tata Boga 2 class as the sample of the research. To obtain the data of parents’ socioeconomic status, the writer distributed questionnaire consisted of 12 items. To obtain the data of students’ English achievement, the writer collected students’ learning test results in English. After analyzing the data, it was found that both data (X and Y) have been normally distributed. From the calculation of Pearson correlation, it was found r0 > rt, so H0 was rejected and Hi was accepted. In other words, there was a relationship between parents’ socioeconomic status and students’ English achievement of the eleventh grade of SMKN 24 East Jakarta in 2019/2020 academic year.