THE CORRELATION BETWEEN INTEREST IN LEARNING ENGLISH AND ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENT OF TENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT SMAK FRATER DON BOSCO TARAKAN
This study aimed at investigating a correlation between interest in learning English and English achievement of tenth graders at SMAK Frater Don Bosco Tarakan. This was a quantitative research with correlational design. The population was the tenth grade students at SMAK Frater Don Bosco Tarakan. Using simple random sampling technique, 93 of 121 students of classes X IPA, X IPS-A, X IPS-B and X IPS-C were taken as study sample. Data was collected using a questionnaire, while English achievement data was collected using the school documents of English achievement scores from the report cards in the second semester of the 2018/2019 academic year. The data was statistically analyzed using Pearson Product Moment correlation with the help of SPSS version 24.0. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between interest in learning English and English achievement of tenth graders at SMAK Frater Don Bosco Tarakan as indicated by the significance value of 0.013 0.05 and the calculated r value was greater than the critical r value (0.256 > 0.203).