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.
