Multiple Correlations of Motivation, Learning Strategies, and English Achievement at First Year Students of SMK plus AL MAARIF Singosari Malang

Asy’ari. 2009. Multiple Correlations of Motivation, Learning Strategies, and English Achievement at First Year Students of SMK plus AL MAARIF Singosari Malang. Skripsi, English Education Department Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Islamic University of Malang. Advisor I: Drs. H. Junaidi M, M.Pd., Ph.D, Advisor II: Dzul Fikri, S.S., M.Pd

Key words: correlations, motivation, learning strategies, English achievement

           

            English is very important today, because English is one of international languages and it plays an important role as means of communication which people need in social interaction. There are several factors that might influence success in learning a foreign language. One of the factors is motivation. Motivation has been supposed the main factor that gives strong influence on the success of the students’ learning because motivation is very important in improving student achievement. Based on the motivation, learning strategy is another’s factor that can make students’ learning easier, faster, more enjoyable, more effective, and more transferable to new situation in order to improve their English ability.

This study aimed to find out whether there is a significant correlation among motivation, leaning strategies, and English achievement at the first year students of SMK plus AL MAARIF Singosari Malang. This study uses a correlation design and has three variables, namely: motivation, leaning strategies, and English achievement. This study was conducted at first year students of SMK plus Al MAARIF Singosari Malang. The samples were 36 students who were selected randomly from the population of 96 students of first year of SMK plus AL MAARIF Singosari Malang. Meanwhile, the instruments to collect data are questionnaire and document. The questionnaire was used to collect data of students’ motivation and leaning strategies, while the document was from English teacher.

The writer analyzed the data by using correlation research design and the type of this correlation research is multiple correlation and F-testing hypothesis. The result of computation shows that the coefficient correlation from correlation among students’ motivation, leaning strategies and English achievement (R) is 0.123 and the computing of the value of F (2.346) is lower than critical value of F (43.30) at 0.05 in the level significance. It means that the alternative hypothesis is rejected. Thus, the study found that there is not significant correlation among students’ motivation, learning strategies, and English achievement.

It can be concluded that there is no significant correlation among motivation, learning strategies and English achievement at first year students of SMK plus AL MAARIF Singosari. Therefore, the researcher suggested to the English teacher to help the students find the effective factors in teaching and learning process, in order to increase students’ English achievement, the students should improve                   the motivation and strategies in learning English and increase their attitude, attention if they want to have a good mastery of English, and for further researcher to add the other variables which related to the students’ English achievement.