Abstract
The research focused on the social factors which can influence the students’ achievement in learning English. Social factors are believed as the factors which play a crucial role in language learning and it can give impacts on foreign language learning. In this case, this research was conducted to investigate the impacts of social factors of parents’ economic level, Parents’ education level, parents’ occupation level and the environment on students’ achievement in learning English as a foreign language. The objects of the research were 10 students with special need and their parents at the eighth grade of SLB Negeri Pembina Aceh Tamiang. In conducting the data, the test and the questionnaire were designed. The twenty question items of the test were given to the students and an eighteen item of questionnaire were given to the parents’ to find out the require information on the social factors. In addition, in analyzing the data, all available data were processed by SPSS 17.0 for descriptive, correlation, ANOVA, and predictive analysis. Furthermore, based on the finding and the result of the research, the hypothesis (H0) of the research was rejected. In other word, there was no a significant correlation between social factors namely parents’ economic level, parents’ education level, parent’s occupation level and environment on students’ achievement in learning English. Therefore, it can be stated that the variety of the students’ scores were not influenced by the social factors discussed on this research in which it was probably influenced by other factors such as the personality of the students, the students’ disability, etc.
Highlights
The others factor may come from the students its self, the disability of the students or the factors which come for the school
Based on the problems of the research, the conclusions can be stated as follows: 1. There is no correlation between social factors and students‘ achievement in learning English
R-square of 0.354 described that 35.4% of dependent variable can be explained by the independent variables which discussed in this research
Summary
English is one of the languages which play various functions in social life. As an international language, English almost has become the language which used widely all over the word and used in many fields. A child from the low level social class whose parents do not ever use English language probably tends to be passive and less speak during the process of teaching and learning English in the classroom. Teachers of this school find that students‘ achievements are varied This problem is caused by the students who come from various different social backgrounds. Related to the explanations and the statements mentioned above, the researcher is interested in investigating the social factors such as how parents‘ economic level, parents‘ education level, parents‘ occupation and learning environment can influence students‘ achievement in learning English. Broughton, et al (1980) state that in the rest of the world, English is a foreign language Thatis, it is taught in schools, often widely, but it does not play anessential role in national or social life. As a world language, is taught amongothers in schools, but there is no regionalvariety of Englishwhich embodies a Spanish, Brazilian or Japanese culturalidentity.In conclusion, it can be assumed that English as a Foreign Language (EFL) is English as a new language in which it is only learnt in formal education as in schools but it is not used to make a communication process in the daily life
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