Abstract
This study focuses on students’ interest in English, and how it influences students’ achievement. The aim of this study is to figure out whether there is a correlation between students’ interest and their academic achievement in learning English. The number of the sample in this research are 87 students at the second grade of SMA Negeri 1 Tomohon. This study used quantitative research design which is non-experimental research. The data collected with questionnaire to obtain the information about students’ interest and students’ achievement in learning English. The questionnaire consists of 31 items divided into positive and negative statements. The items were tested with SPPS to determent the validity and the reliability of each items. The data was analysed by using the formula of Pearson Product Moment Correlation. It was found that the correlation score was 0.424. The significance value was 0.217 showed in the r table. The score of correlation 0.424 was higher than the significance value 0.217, means that the alternative hypothesis was accepted. Based on the result, it can be concluded that there was a positive correlation between students’ interest and their academic achievement in learning English. The researcher suggests that the case interest is very important particularly in affecting students’ achievement, therefore it must be improved.
Highlights
English is an important thing that has become the highly recommendation to be learned, because English is an international language which is generally used to communicate with people from aboard
Academic achievement the researcher concludes that the correlation between students‟ interest (X), and their academic achievement (Y) is 0.424 which has moderate correlation
The significance value is lower than level significance or the null hypothesis (HO) “there is no correlation between students‟ interest and their academic achievement in English” was rejected
Summary
English is an important thing that has become the highly recommendation to be learned, because English is an international language which is generally used to communicate with people from aboard G. (2016) state that the most important aspect in the life of all human beings is language, English language. English sounds close in the daily communication, but it has been requiring people to know it, at least to speak some English words like greetings: good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night
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