THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ LEARNING MOTIVATION AND TEACHER’S TEACHING STYLE ON ENGLISH LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGLISH AT THE SEVENTH GRADE OF SMP NEGERI 6 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/2013

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to describe the students’ learning motivation, teacher’s teaching style, English learning achievement and the correlation between students' learning motivation and teachers’ teaching style on English learning achievement at the seventh grade of SMP N 6 Purworejo in the academic year 2012/2013. The mean result of the study showed that the mean students’ learning motivation was 69.90 It was categorized as good. Second, the teacher’s teaching style was 80.68. It was categorized as very good. Third, English learning achievement was 60. 31. It was categorized as fair. Four, there is a positive and significant correlation between students’ learning motivation and teacher teaching style on English learning achievement that is 0.81. In computation, the level of significance (5%) the result of computation done by SPSS version 18 was 0.81. Based on the value in the table r product moment (r_t) is 0.349. The computation showed that r_obatined is higher than r_table (r_o < r_t) is 0.81 < 0.349 and it is categorized as a very high correlation. It means that there is a very high correlation between students’ learning motivation and teacher’s teaching style on English learning achievement at the seventh grade of SMP N 6 Purworejo.

Key word: Correlation, Learning Motivation, Teaching Style, English learning Achievement.