THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ CONSCIENTIOUSNESS PERSONALITY AND THEIR ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENT AT STATE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 4 KAMPAR

Abstrak / Ringkasan

Based on the preliminary research at State Junior High School 4 Kampar, the
writer found that students in this school have varied personality. Those are shown
through their behavior. Some students are responsible while others are not, some
students have good self-discipline while others do not, etc. Besides, the writer also
found that they have varied achievement in English subject.
The purposes of this research were to find out how the students’
conscientiousness personality is, how the students’ English achievement is, and to
find out whether there is any significant correlation between students’
conscientiousness personality and their English achievement at State Junior High
School 4 Kampar, especially at the second year students of that school.
The research was a correlational research which consists of two variables
(conscientiousness personality and English achievement). The sample of this research
was two classes of the second year students at State Junior High School 4 Kampar.
The techniques of collecting data that were used by the writer were questionnaire and
documentation. The writer used Big Five Inventory (BFI) questionnaire to find out
the degree of students’ conscientiousness personality and documentation of students
academic achievement to get the students’ English achievement.
Based on the data analysis that were analyzed by using SPSS 16.0, it was found
that r
o
is higher than r
t
both at level 5% and 1%, it can be read as r
t
(5%) <r
o
> rt
(1%)
or 0.304<0.612>0.393. it means that H
a is accepted and H
o
is rejected. Based on this
result, the writer could conclude that there is a significant correlation between
students’ conscientiousness personality and their English achievement at state junior
high school 4 Kampar

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