The correlation between intrinsic motivation and students’ morphological mastery of sixth semester IAIN Padangsidimpuan

This research discussed about the correlation between intrinsic motivation and students’ morphological mastery of sixth semester IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The students problems in this research were: 1) Students have low motivation in learning English. So, it makes students have less enthusiasm when the teacher gives the material, 2) They have lack of morphology mastery in English learning process, 3) in English education of IAIN Padangsidimpuan all of students must learn the spesific subject like morphology. So, some of students don’t like about it. The aim of this research was to verify the correlation between intrinsic motivation and students’ morphological mastery of sixth semester IAIN Padangsidimpuan. The kind of this research was quantitative research with correlation method. The population of this research was the sixth semester of IAIN Padangsidimpuan where they were three classes. Then, the sample of this research was 36 students from population were chosen by using simple random sampling. To collect the data, the researcher used questionnaire to know students’ intrinsic motivation and used test to know students’ morphological mastery. To analyze the data, the researcher used the product moment and ttest formula. At the result of this research, the researcher found that mean score of students’ intrinsic motivation was 54.77 and mean score of students’ morphological mastery was 66.5. Beside, the score of rxywas 0.445 and rtable was 0.329. So, rcount was higher than rtable (0.445>0.329). The result showed that there was a significant correlation between intrinsic motivation and students’ morphological mastery of sixth semester IAIN Padangsidimpuan in enough category. It meant the hypothesis was accepted. It was concluded that there was a significant correlation between intrinsic motivation and students’ morphological mastery of sixth semester IAIN Padangsidimpuanin enough category