The correlations among learning motivation, self-confidence, and writing ability of students descriptive text

Dean May Julian,Mulyadi Mulyadi,Baginda Simaibang

doi:10.29210/021002jpgi0005

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This thesis was concerned with the inquiry on the correlations among learning motivation, self-confidence, and writing ability of the seventh grade students at State Junior High School of Lubai Ulu Sub-District of Muaraenim Regency. The problem of the study was to investigate the correlation among students’ learning motivation, self-confidence, and writing ability. The total number of the population were 474 students. The sample for this study was 83 students taken through a simple random sampling technique. Data were collected by adopting a questionnaire for learning motivation, self-confidence, and test for writing ability. Data were analyzed by using r-Product Moment and Multiple Regression. Finding showed that: (1) there was significant correlation between learning motivation and writing ability; (2) there was not any significant correlation between self-confidence and writing ability; (3) there was not any significant correlation between learning motivation and self-confidence; (4) there were significant correlations among learning motivation, self-confidence, and writing ability of seventh grade-students at state Junior High School of Lubai Ulu Muaraenim.

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This thesis was concerned with the inquiry on the correlations among learning motivation, self-confidence, and writing ability of the seventh grade students at State Junior High School of Lubai Ulu Sub-District of Muaraenim Regency
An English learner's writing output may represent the learner's expertise through the written discourse they present in English language patterns
The correlations among learning motivation. Another issue faced in writing by students is the complexity of developing a concept into a paragraph and following the text's guidelines. [2] claimed that another difficulty in writing is the generation and composition of ideas, and the presentation of ideas in the text

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This thesis was concerned with the inquiry on the correlations among learning motivation, self-confidence, and writing ability of the seventh grade students at State Junior High School of Lubai Ulu Sub-District of Muaraenim Regency. Based on a preliminary interview with one of the English teachers at State Junior High School 1 of Lubai Ulu, Muaraenim, it was found that some of the problems faced by the students were: (1) the students were afraid of making mistakes or errors, (2) they found it difficult to produce grammatically correct sentences and use vocabulary varieties to express their vocabulary varieties. These can hamper learning processes in writing teaching. The results of the writing performance of the students were not as high as the results of the other English language skills, where their average score was 55 below the minimum criteria of mastery learning

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