The correlation between students motivation and their reading achievement in english (a correlational study in the eight clase of SMPN 45 RSBI Jakarta)

The purpose of this research is to find out how significant Correlation between Students� Motivation and their Reading Achievement in English at 8.4 in SMPN 45 RSBI Jakarta. Based on the aim above, the writer formulated the problem: �is there any significant correlation between students� motivation and their reading achievement in English?�. To answer the formulation of problem, the writer used the quantitative through survey method and analyzed this research with Pearson Correlation Product Moment. The Population of this research is grade 8 of SMPN 45 RSBI Jakarta. It consists of grade 8.1 to 8.5. Sample of the research is as much 75 students from class 8.4 and 8.5. The Score of students� motivation is obtained from the students after they filled out the questionnaires about the students� motivation in learning English. Then for reading achievement scores, writer took the score by giving students the paper sheets of reading tasks of what they have learned for the second semester of 2011-2012 academic years and evaluate the score to correlate it with the motivation score. From the result of the calculation, the value of rxy is 0.349; df is 73. if it is compared with the rt at the degree of significant 5 % (0.227) and 1 % (0.296), the correlation between students� motivation in learning English and their reading achievement is positive or significant (rxy : rt = 0.349 > 0.227; rxy : rt = 0.349 > 0.296). So, the null hypothesis (Ho) which states that there is no significant correlation between the student�s motivation in learning English and their reading achievement is rejected and the alternative hypothesis (Ha) which states that there is significant correlation between the student�s motivation in learning English and their reading achievement is accepted. Then we can conclude, the better motivation students have, the better reading achievement they can get