The Influence of Using Seating Arrangement on English Students􀂶� Achievement at the Eighth Grade of SMPN 6 Purworejo in the Academic Year of 2015/2016

Abstract

The objective of this study is to find out whether Seating Arrangements influence or not on English students’ achievement for Eighth grades of SMPN 6 Purworejo in the academic year of 2015/2016. The type of this research is descriptive quantitative research. The population is the eighth grade of SMP N 6 Purworejo in the academic year 2015/2016 which consists of 191 students. The sample of this research is 54 students by applying purposive sampling to collect the sample. The technique of collecting data used the questionnaire of seating arrangement and the documentation of English students’ achievement by the teacher. The data is analyzed by using descriptive analysis and inferential analysis. The results of this research are: The mean of students’ seating arrangement questionnaire score is 62.66. The mean of English students’ achievement is 72.40 classified into good category. r-value (0.776) is higher than r table (0.266) in the significant level of 0.05. It means that there is positive and significance influence of seating arrangement on English students’ achievement. Based on the regression test, it has known that coefficient of determination (R) is 0.603; it means that English students’ achievement 60.3% affected by their seating arrangement.