The Correlation Between Students’ Motivation in Learning English and Their Reading Comprehension at ninth Grade of MTS Al-Kautsar Depok

Abstract

This research have target to get empirical data and valid fact also can be trusted by concerning whether there is correlation between students’ motivation in learning English and their reading comprehension at the ninth grade students of MTS Al-Kautsar Depok. Method of this research is survey method with correlation approach. In this research, the population is all students from ten to twelve grade with total of 1160 and the sample taken 38 students from ninth grade. For technique of collecting data the researcher have two instrument. First is questionnaire to identified the students’ motivation in learning English. Second is reading test to identified students’ reading comprehension. The results were accepted based on the data. The t_value of the t-test is 5.907, while the t_table is 1.725 with a significant standard of 0.05. Because r_count=0.434 is greater than r_table=0.320, it means that no hypothesis rejected and the alternative hypothesis is accepted. So, the researchers concluded that there was a positive relationship between students' motivation to learn English and their reading comprehension in class IX MTS Al-Kautsar Depok. The importance of this factor can be seen from the contribution of motivation to learn English to students' reading comprehension by 47%.