Relationship Between Genders` Motivations and Reading Achievement at SMP Muhammadiyah 7 Medan

Abstract

This research was conduct to describe the significant of correlations between genders motivations and reading achievement at eight graded of SMP Muammadiyah 7 Medan. The aim was to find out the relationship between students reading motivations and reading achievement based on genders by using Pearson Product Moment test. In collecting the data there were 20 questions of reading test and questionnaire in this study. The data was analyzed by calculating the student score in reading comprehension achievement and the questionnaire of reading motivations. Finding out the reading comprehensions score and correlating the two variables. The students score classified based three categories there are: Low, Medium and High. The data was presented by using table. Besides the result, finding of this research, there are coefficient correlations obtained was of 424. Therefore, it answered the research that there was a significant relationship between genders and reading motivations. For more details, the correlations of reading motivations and reading comprehension achievement is significant in 0.016.In other words, the contributions of reading motivations toward reading comprehensions achievement significant enough for the students eight grades of SMP Muhammadiyah 7 Medan. Another result from the student perceptions about the teachers` teaching method as extrinsic motivations found out that they are more motivated if the teacher teaches them by speech as one of the stage inquiry based learning than teachers teaching by group discussions or questioning.