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ABSTRACT YUSTAN SAMPE R. 2019. The Correlation between Students’ Learning Motivation and Students’ English Learning Achievement at Eighth Grade Student of SMP Negeri 7 Tarakan in Academic 2018/2019. (Advised by Romlah Ulfaika, M.Pd). Motivation is one of important role in learning because it can make the influence to students learning achievement. The objective of this research was to find out is there any correlation between students’ learning motivation and students’ English learning achievement at eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 7 Tarakan. This research uses approach quantitative with correlation method. 60 students of the eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 7 Tarakan were taken as the sample in this research by purposive sampling technique. To collect the data in this research, the researcher used questionnaire of learning motivation and document analysis from students’ report of English learning achievement. To find out the correlation between students’ learning motivation and students’ English learning achievement, the researcher used pearson product moment correlation to analyse the data. The result of questionnaire from students’ learning motivation found that the students’ learning motivation at eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 7 Tarakan was in medium classification. It can be seen from the mean score (88.83) of learning motivation with the percentage 96.67% from classification of students’ learning motivation. The result of students’ English learning achievement found that the students’ English learning achievement at eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 7 Tarakan was in good category. It can be seen from the mean score (76.85) of English achievement with percentage 51.67% from classification of students’ English learning achievement. The analysis using pearson product moment correlation. The result show that there was significant correlation between students’ learning motivation and students’ English learning achievement. The degree of correlation coefficient was medium or enough correlation.