The Correlation between Students’ Attitude toward English and their Learning Achievement in English subject at the second grade of SMA N 1 Petanahan in the academic year 2015/2016

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the attitude toward English and their learning achievement of the second grade students. This research was carried out in SMA N 1 Petanahan in the second grade. The research sample is 53 students, which consist of class XI IPS 1 and XI IPS 2 in the academic year of 2015/2016. The data of the students’ attitude toward English which include by using the attitude questionnaire while the data of the students’ English learning achievement was obtained from the summative score of the student’s English achievement from the English teacher of the school. The inferential analyses were calculated using SPSS statistics version 16.0. The main results of this research are (1) students’ attitude in English subject at SMA N 1 Petanahan can be categorized as adequate level with percentage 52.83% at the range 74 – 81 from mean attitude score is 76.70 and the highest score is 88 and the lowest score is 67; (2) students’ English learning achievement of XI IPS 1 and XI IPS 2 at SMA N 1 Petanahan can be categorized as excellent level with percentage 71.7% at the range 80 – 100 from mean attitude score is 82.40 and the highest score is 91 and the lowest score is 71; (3) the correlation between students’ attitude toward English and their learning achievement in English subject at the second grade of SMA N 1 Petanahan in the academic year 2015/2016 is an adequate positive and significant attitude and score of students’ achievement using SPSS statistics version 16.0 is 0.433 or 43.3%. It is higher than 0.266