Journal of English Language Teaching http://ojs.
id/index.
php/joelt DOI:10.
33394/jo-elt.
Volume 6 Nomor 1.
Juni 2019
online: 2548-5865, print: 2355-0309
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTSAo MOTIVATION
AND LEARNING GRAMMAR
Siti SyafiAoatul Qomariyah English Department.
FPBS IKIP Mataram sitisyafiatulqomariyah@ikipmataram.
Abstract This correlation research aimed to find out whether there is correlation between studentsAo motivation and learning grammar.
The population of this research was the students at the second grade students of MTs Al-Muslimun NW Tegal, which consisted of 104 students.
The sample of this research used one class which consisted of 26 students.
The sampling technique used simple random sampling.
The instruments of this research used grammar test and questionnaire.
The result of the analyzed showed that the value of r-test .
was higher than r-table .
, in 0.
05 of significant level.
Based on the result of the study, it could be concluded that there was correlation between studentsAo motivation and learning In other words, alternative hypothesis (H.
was accepted and null hypothesis (H.
was rejected.
Keywords: Correlation.
StudentAos Motivation, and Learning Grammar there are attitude to language learning and the English language in particular.
All of language learning will affect the studentsAo attitude in the society to the language being studied whether the attitude is positive or negative, .
Significant Others.
apart from the culture of the world around the students, their attitude to language learning will be greatly affected by the influence of the people who are close The attitude of the studentsAo peers is If the studentsAo critical of the subject or activity, the studentsAo own motivation may suffer.
If there are enthusiastic learners, however, they may take the student along with them, .
The Teacher.
in this case, although teacher is using similar method or technique in teaching learning but the results can be The teachers need to make the course interesting and make the students participate in learning process, .
The Method.
the methods by which the students are taught by the teacher have to INTRODUCTION Learning is one of complex problem that influenced by many aspects.
One of aspects is motivation.
Motivation is probably the most frequently used catchall term explaining the success or failure of virtually any complex task.
Nancy .
said that motivation is the act or process of providing a motivating that can cause a person to take some action.
In the classroom context, the concept of studentsAo motivation is used to explain the degree to which students invest attention and effort in various pursuits, which may not be the ones desired by their StudentAos motivation is rooted in studentsAo subject experiences, especially those connected to their willingness to engage in learning activities and their reason for doing so.
StudentsAo motivation in leaning can be up and down.
According to Harmer .
1: .
, there are four sources that effect students motivation in learning those are .
The Society.
outside any classroom, have some effect on their motivation in According to Harmer .
1: .
, there are four sources which have effect toward studentsAo motivation in learning, namely .
The Society, outside any classroom there are attitude to language learning and the English language in All of language learning will affect the studentAos attitude in the society to the language being studied whether the attitude is positive or negative.
, .
Significant Others, a part from the culture of the world around the students, the attitude to language learning will be greatly affected by the influence of the people who are close them.
The attitude of the studentsAo peers is crucial.
If the studentsAo critical of the subject or activity, the studentAos own motivation may suffer.
If there are enthusiastic learners, however, they may take the students along with , .
The Teacher, in this case, although teacher is using similar method or technique in teaching learning but the results can be different.
The teachers need to make the course interesting and make students participate in learning process.
The Method, the method by which the students are taught by the teacher have to have some effect on their motivation in There are many ways that teachers have done to increase studentsAo motivation.
They used various teaching method, teaching strategy, and teaching model.
teachers know that motivation is one of factor which supports studentAos learning especially when they are learning English The researcher also found the problem of motivation especially in learning grammar when researcher conducted observation at MTs Al- Muslimun NW Tegal.
The students thought that grammar was very complex and so hard thought.
Grammar is one of component in four skills such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
In teaching grammar, there are so many rules that must be pid attention when someone wants to master grammar itself.
Someone who can master the grammar, they should make differences between the kind of elements in grammar.
The element of grammar is According to Decapua .
8: .
explain that grammar is a set of rules.
Grammar is also often linked to both explicit and implicit criticisms of peopleAos use or AumisuseAy of language, which may have created a sense of resentment or frustration with the notion of grammar.
Generally, grammar or structure is sometimes defined as the way words are combining or put together to make correct We can, however, apply the term, grammatical to the unit which is smaller than sentence (Greenbaum and Nelson, 2002: .
Based on the definition above, it can be concluding that grammar is set of rules that describe how words and groups of words can be arranged to form sentences in a particular language.
There are four indicators of grammar according to Fiklestain .
0: .
: .
Sentence.
A sentence is the largest independent units of grammar.
it begins with capital letter and ends with period, question mark or exclamation point.
sentence is grammatical unit between the constituent parts of which distributional imitational limitation and dependencies can be established, but which can itself be put into distributional class.
, .
Morpheme.
In linguistics, morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit in a language.
order words, morphemes are the smallest meaningful unit of a language.
morpheme is not identical to a word, and the principle difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not stand , .
Phrases.
A phrase is small group of words that adds meaning to sentence because it is not a complete idea with a subject, verb, and predicate, in other words, phrase is any groups of words which does not have subject and , .
Clauses.
A clause is group of words that includes a subject and predicate, clause also a part of grammar whereas a grammar is set rules that can be arranged how to make sentence into the A clause can be distinguished from a phrase, which does not contain subject and verb.
that the researcher intended to test were:
Alternative hypothesis (H.
stated that there is a correlation between students with high motivation had grammar higher than students who had low motivation, .
Null Hypothesis (H.
stated that there is no correlation between students with high motivation had grammar higher than students who had low motivation.
FINDING AND DISCUSSION
Research Finding The findings obtained when the researcher was conducted at MTs AlMuslimun NW Tegal.
In finding the data, the researcher designed the study based on the questionnaire and grammar test.
The Result of Questionnaire The questionnaire to measure studentsAo motivation when they are taught used grammar.
The questionnaire was given to the students of Vi A of MTs Al-Muslimun NW Tegal in academic 2017/2018 which consist of 26 students.
From that raw score, it was found that the highest score of students was 86.
lowest score of students was 51.
Further, studentAos RESEARCH METHOD This research is correlation design.
As describe by Sukmadinata .
3: .
correlation is a research study aimed to determine the correlation between one variable with another variable.
This research is the second grade students of MTs Al-Muslimun NW Tegal which consist of 104 students.
The total sample is 26 students.
The Instrument of this research used questionnaire to know studentsAo motivation which consisted of 20 questions and grammar test consisted of 25 To analyze the data use of count up tricks for each category, for example:
strongly agree was 5, agree was 4, undecided was 3, disagree was 2, and strongly disagree was 1.
The data analysis used Correlation Pearson Product Moment.
Hypothesis was a tentative answer towards a watchfulness problem until proved from data that gathered.
Before formulating the hypothesis the researcher firstly needed to state about the hypothesis as whats cited by the experts.
The hypothesis of the study Table 1 Score of Questionnaire The result of questionnaire showed that 11 students .
%) have very motivating category, 7 students .
%) is slightly motivating category, and 8 students .
%) is neutral.
showed that students at MTs AlMuslimun NW Tegal have high motivation when they are taught Further, study the following score interpretation of motivation.
Very demotivating The Result of Grammar Test Based on the result of computation, it was found that the result of studentsAo grammar test was neutral category.
It proved by there are many students got average score, only one student got high score 83 and two students got Further, study of following frequency distribution.
Table 2 Score Interpretation of Motivation Category Students Percentage Very motivating Slightly Neutral Slightly Table 3 Frequency Distribution of Grammar Test questionnaire is 8.
93 and grammar is 6.
median of questionnaire and grammar is Mode of questionnaire is 72 and grammar is 68.
Testing Hypothesis Table 5
Correlations VAR00001
Pearson
Correlation VAR00001
VAR00002
Sig.
VAR00002 Figure 1.
Histogram and Polygon of Grammar Test Pearson Correlation Sig.
The Result of Descriptive Analysis The research computed descriptive analysis to know mean score, standard deviation, mode and median both of questionnaire and grammar score.
Further, study of following statistics.
Based on the result of computation, it could be showed that r-test is 0.
means that there is high correlation between studentsAo motivation and learning Then, the researcher compared the value of r-test nd r-table with degree of significant of 0.
The value of r-test is higher than r-table .
880 > 0.
Thus, the result of implicity that there is a correlation between students with high motivation had grammar higher than students who had low motivation.
It means that Null hypothesis (H.
is rejected and Alternative hypothesis is accepted.
VAR00002
Valid Missing Mean Std.
Error of Mean Median Mode Std.
Deviation Sum **.
Correlation is significant at the 0.
01 level .
Table 4 Statistics VAR00001 Discussion Related to the result of this study, high or low motivation also had relationship with studentsAo achievement of This happened because it was influenced by studentsAo motivation in According to Harmer .
1: .
Multiple modes exist.
The smallest value is Based on the table above, it could be seen that mean score of questionnaire is 73, grammar is 70.
Standard deviation of there are four sources which have effect toward studentsAo motivation in learning, namely .
The Society, outside any classroom there are attitude to language learning and the English language in All of language learning will affect the studentAos attitude in the society to the language being studied whether the attitude is positive or negative.
, .
Significant Others, a part from the culture of the world around the students, the attitude to language learning will be greatly affected by the influence of the people who are close them.
The attitude of the studentsAo peers is crucial.
If the studentsAo critical of the subject or activity, the studentAos own motivation may suffer.
If there are enthusiastic learners, however, they may take the students along with , .
The Teacher, in this case, although teacher is using similar method or technique in teaching learning but the results can be different.
The teachers need to make the course interesting and make students participate in learning process.
The Method, the method by which the students are taught by the teacher have to have some effect on their motivation in The existence of motivation was very important in improving the ability of students and facilitated to achieve what the objectives for the students themselves.
with high motivation had grammar higher than students who had low motivation.
means that Null hypothesis (H.
is rejected and Alternative hypothesis is accepted.
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