The Correlation Between Students’ Personality Traits and Students’ English Achievement at Second Grade Students of MAN Gombong in The Academic Year of 2016/2017

Abstract

This study is aimed at describing the students’ personality traitstoward students’ English achievement, which focuses on a issue: Is there any possitive and significant correlation between students’ personality traits and students’ English achievement at second grade students of MA N Gombong in the academic year of 2016/2017? This is a quantitative study. Questionnaire and documentation were used to collect the data. Samples were taken practically by the use of purposive sampling. The validity of the data was established by the use of Spearman Rank formula. The data were consisted of questionnaire data and documentation. They were analyzed by correlation analysis procedure. Result of the study revealed that the personality traits toward English achievement were found no significant correlation, it is based on the result of correlation analysis using Spearman Rank, the coefficient correlation between students’ personality traits and students’ English achievement is 0,155 and it belongs to low correlation. The value of coefficient correlation was compared with r table value. The value of r table for 39 samples in significant level 5% is 2.03. It can be seen that r obtained value (0.155) is lower than 2.03 (0.155<2.03).It means that there is no significant correlation between personality traits of students and their English achievement.