The correlation between english learning motivation and vocabulary mastery at grade VII SMP N 8 Padangsidimpuan

This research discusses about the correlation between students’ learning motivation and vocabulary mastery at grade VII SMP N 8 Padangsidimpuan. There are some problems of the students in this research: 1) Students have many difficulties in learning English, because the differences between the written word and the pronouncing 2) Students are lazy to bring dictionary when process teaching and learning English 3) Students are less vocabulary 4) Students are difficult to understand new words 5) Students are not interested to English lesson, because they say English lesson is a bored lesson 6) Students don’t have dream to reach 7) students will be enthusiastic if teacher explain the material with high sound. The purpose of this research is to know of how significant the correlation between English learning motivation and vocabulary mastery at grade VII SMPN 8 Padangsidimpuan. The kind of this research is quantitative research with correlation method. The population of this research is the grade VII students SMP N 8 Padangsidimpuan with total 239 students from the ten classes. Then, the sample of this research is 70 students from population. The researcher used questionnaire to know the English learning motivation and test to know students’ vocabulary mastery on collecting the data. The researcher used the product moment and tcount to analyze the data. At the result of this research, the researcher found that mean score of English learning motivation was 52.28 and mean score of students’ vocabulary mastery was 51.92. Besides, the score of rxy was 0.448 and rtable was 0.235. So, rcount was higher than rtable (0.448 > 0.235). The result showed that there were a significant correlation between English learning motivation and vocabulary mastery at grade VII SMP N 8 Padangsidimpuan in enough category. It meant the hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. There were a significant correlation between English learning motivation and vocabulary mastery at grade VII SMP N 8 Padangsidimpuan in enough category