THE INFLUENCE OF LEARNING MOTIVATION ON STUDENTS’ LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT OF THE FIFTH SEMESTER OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT IN MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

Abstract

Students’ learning motivation in each learning activity is important to improve students’ learning achievement in a particular subject. students’ learning motivation can become weak. The lack of learning motivation will frustrate the activities, so the quality of learning achievement is low. Thus, students’ learning motivation needs to be strengthened continuously. It is expected that students have a strong motivation to learn, so their learning achievement can be optimal. The objectives of the study in this research are: 1) To find out whether there is any influence of learning motivation on student’s learning achievement of fifth semester of English Education Department in Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014. 2) To determine whether the influence of learning motivation on student’s learning achievement of fifth semester of English Education Department in Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014. The respondents were the fifth semester of English Education Department of Teacher Training and Educational Sciences Faculty of Muhammadiyah University of Purworejo in The Academic Year 2013/2014. The total of respondents were 50 students by applying purposive sampling. The data of students’ learning motivation was obtained using questionnaire, and the data of the score of students’ achievement was obtained using documentation. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were calculated using SPSS statistic version 17.0. Moreover, the correlation analysis between score of students’ learning motivation and score of students’ learning achievement were also using SPSS statistic version 17.0. The main result of this research is that there is a significant influence of learning motivation on learning achievement. If the value of the variable of Motivation (X) is high, the value of the variable of Achievement (Y) will also be high. And the motivation influences to the learning achievement in this research is 28.5% or can be inferred that the learning achievement is influenced by learning motivation about 28.5% while the 71.5% is influenced by other factors such as physical health, intelligence, interest, talent, maturity, readiness, and so on.