Saturday, March 28, 2015

The Correlation between Learner’s Motivation about Their English Learning Process and Their Achievement at Eleventh Grade of SMAI Darun Najah Sumenep

By Sutagit


In teaching and learning process of English foreign language EFL student should not only responsible for study or found out good lesson, but also learner must build their motivation in learning English as foreign language. Because motivation became the important role in learning process, Motivation is though and feeling learner’s have which make them want to do something and apply their thought in a real action and successful in English learning achievement (Spratt, 2005, p. 38).
Motivation can be defined as deriving force that pushes someone to do something. Motivation is defined as learner’s orientation or as the goal to learn a target language (Gardner, 1999). Success of teaching learning process are not only depend on the teacher and the student, but also it depend on the condition of classroom atmosphere, conducive class, learner’s motivation itself, or may be the learner have different style in learning between learner’s which influence their attitude to learn and how they learn it.
             In academic terms, motivation can be defined as student’s willingness, need, desire and compulsion to participate in, and be successful in the learning process (Bomia, 1997). Commonly, student’s problem faced in SMA Islam Darun Najah is about their building motivation, such as; student just come and sit in the classroom without any active participation, whereas this class is divided into three class of eleventh grade of SMA Islam Darun Najah, namely; female and male classroom. It could be one of the problems of student faced that affected their motivation in English classroom and affected to their achievement and also continuing English teaching learning. whereas, achievement is as the goal teaching material process got stagnancy in delivering pure massage to the member of classroom. Achievement is usually designed to pupil by the test score or mark which is achieved by the learner after they studied the material. However, in learning activity the mastering all everything related to lesson that they studied in classroom.
            In this study learner’s motivation and achievement will be specified aspect to measure the level of proficiency in English subject .The achievement of English student of eleventh grade of SMA IslamDarun Najah pointed as the result from this study.

Method
The research of this study used a correlation research design and Pearson Product Moment to find out the correlation coefficient between learner motivation and their achievement.

Participant
The participant of this study were carried out in a population of 98 student of eleventh grade of SMA Islam Darun Najah  in 2013/2014 academic year. A cluster random sampling was done to select 40 sampling from the population that included in this study.  

Procedure of data collection
In collecting the data, the researcher uses some steps as follows:
1. Determine the subject of the study.
2.  Take all data that needed (researcher used a question sheet of learner’s motivation, answer sheet of all samples of learner’s motivation) from the teacher.
3. Finally, researcher analyzed and described in the form of table.

After collecting the data, researcher insert the data into Pearson Product Moment to find out the correlation coefficient between learner’s motivation in English learning and their achievement.

Result
The finding of this study from the data analyzed. The data showed that the learners’ motivation and the level of the learner’s achievement, and the level of the correlation between learners’ motivation in English language learners and their learning achievement are closely significant.
Based on the research problem stated: “is there any significant correlation between learner’s motivation for eleventh grade of SMA Islam Darun Najah Sumenep”
From the result of data analysis in this study, the hypothesis was shown that learner’s motivation significantly correlated to learner’s achievement. It proved from the manual computation where the correlation coefficient was (0.546) higher than the critical value showed just (0.312) at 05 level of significant. It means that the (Ho) was rejected and the (Ha) was accepted.
So, it was clear that the learner’s motivation really correlated to their achievement in eleventh grade of SMA I Darun Najah Sumenep.



Discussion
This study focused only on determining whether or not there is a significant correlation between two variables being observed. The variables were learner’s motivation in English learning and their achievement Eleventh grade of SMAI Darun Najah Sumenep. Therefore, the way used to interpret this research result was in terms of significance. Based on the theory, explanation and computation of the correlation between learner’s motivation in English learning and their achievement above, it could be said that there was a significant correlation between learners’ motivation in English learning and their learning achievement at Eleventh grade of SMAI Darun Najah Sumenep. In other word, learner’s motivation in English learning as independent variable and the learner’s learning achievement as the dependent variable correlated significantly and positively.
Actually, motivation is the thought and feeling student have which make us want to do something, continue to want to do it and turn our wishes into action, (Spratt, 2005, p. 38). Learner has private motivation that must build from the inside and applying their motivation plan action into outside.
Infact, In SMA I Darun Najah included that  learner did not find good facilities in English medium, such as English language laboratory, English cassette, or even microphone as a tool in delivering message in every listening class session, this school has not it. This school included in one of the private school that has private role, management of boarding house and also the criterion of learner’s success. It is also supported by their good characteristic, attitude, and also their motivation in learning English classroom process. Every learner has the same dreams, ideal, desire although in different ways to reach their success in class room. Then, they apply in their own subject. It also becomes one of learner’s motivation factors in every class discussion. Whereas, this school divided into three classes with different classification, one class for female student and one class male student. The learner keeps stay and hopes to build their motivation to reach better live, good prestige, and good achievement inside the school and outside of the school. 
Syah (2008, p. 132) said that student’s achievement can be influenced by three factors; internal factors, external factors and approach to learning factor. He classifies intelligent, attitude, aptitude, motivation and interest as internal factors. For the attitude, he interprets it as an internal factor which can be an affective dimension such as the tendency to give response to the object (people, goods and etc) positively or negatively. In this case, the student’s attitude of the language learner was good or positive. Because based on the result of computing above approved (H1) is accepted and (Ho) is rejected.  It means that the research hypothesis or learner’s motivation was good and has better score then learner’s achievement.
Concerning the theories above, the contribution of learners’ motivation in English learning  particularly very important significantly, encourage risk-taking, build self-confidence, develop intrinsic confidence, engage in cooperative learning, used right-brain process, promote ambiguity tolerance, practice intuition, process error feed-back. It proved that learners at Eleventh grade of SMAI Darun Najah Sumenep. Student must keep their motivation, enthusiastic, and their spirit in English lesson’s atmosphere classroom at Eleventh grade of SMAI Darun Najah Sumenep classified as a strong correlation.

Conclusion and Suggestion
Based on the finding and the discussion of this study, some conclusions can be drawn as follows:
Firstly, the result of conducting the questionnaire sheet indicating the level of learners’ motivation in English achievement can be concluded that the learners had a good and strong motivation.
Secondly, the result of the learners’ test in learning achievement obtained from the English score reached can be concluded that the English score of the students of second grade reached was also good.
Finally, concerning to the objective of the study, it can be concluded that the value of correlation ( r – observed ) in this study was 0.002. It means that the correlation between the two variables being observed was significant. Because r-observed was 0. 546 higher than r –critical which was 0.312 with 38 as the degree of freedom (df = N – 2) at .05 level of significance. It means that learner’s motivation closely correlate to their achievement in English class of eleventh grade of SMAI Darun Najah.
In the last part of this study, the researcher wants to give suggestion for the teacher, students, and the researcher.

a.     For The English Teachers
Based on this study, the English teachers are suggested to create interesting classroom and give more motivation to the learners, so that the learners get involve in learning process, because this study found that there was a significant correlation between learner’s motivation in English learning and their achievement. Therefore, if the teachers want their students reach a good achievement, the teacher have to help the students to find their own way that suit to them in teaching and learning activity.

b.     For The Students
The students are suggested to improve their skill, mastery and ability by using their own way in learning English. They have to learn more actively involved in the language learning process in the class. They have to know that practice is very important, they should make them more qualitative, being creative and they should create opportunities to use their language learning habit to increase their achievement.


References
Bomia, L. B. (1997). The impact of teaching strategies on intrinsic motivation. Champaign ic. Eric.
Spratt, M. (2005). The tkt teaching knowledge test course. Cambridge of university.


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