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.
