The Language Attitude Of Senior High School Students Towards English Language And Its Relationship With Their Academic Achievement

Abstract

This study deals with students language attitude towards the English language and how their attitude has relathionship to the their academic achievement. This research conducted at Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 1 Medan of XI Social science Class. This research had 40 students as the respondents. The researcher gave questionnaire that consisted of 30 statements. The researcher used likert scale and simple precentage to analyzed the data. Futhermore, the researcher conducted interview to the students. The result of the study showed that the respondents tend to have positive attitude towards English language but some students have negative attitude in some statements.They know the importance of English in globalization era, learned English proudly and keep do an effort to use English in the class, to the teacher and friends but they stated English is difficult and complicated to be learn and they tend to use un grammatically. Their attitudes reflect to their score in English academic achievement. The student who has high score tend to the positive attitude with strongly and agree response and the low score tend to negative with doubt, disagree and strongly disagree. Some students showed they tend to had a negative attitude but their score higher than the students had the positive attitude. Students’ attitude surely had relationship to their academic achievement because reflect on their attitude towards the language.