The Interpretation of the Data

44 1 Parents are trying their best to fulfill their children’ needs. When it comes to home, parents try to spare their time, mostly in the weekend, to listen to their children’ performance story in the school and share their thought to provide the children a wise thought of how they can take a decision of their problem in the school. 2 Parents who have good communication with the teacher and the school can have more information about their children academic performance better than parents who are not continuously communicating with the school. However, the result of open ended question is drawing a clearer explanation about how parents’ involvement affected their children learning achievement. It is in line with Henderson ’s research as cited in Patmonodewo’s book that, “…prestasi anak akan meningkat apabila orang tua peduli terhadap anak mereka .” 4 Thus, parents who take an important role in their children lives will form a good impact to the students’ learning achievement by applying family management practices. 5 In summary, the involvement that parents give to children both at home and at school are positively correlated to student’s English learning achievement. At this stage, children will also feel the affection of their parents and they will automatically show a good achievement to them as a result of their parents’ appropriate attention. 4 Soemiarti Patmonodewo, Pendidikan Anak Prasekolah, Jakarta, RinekaCipta: 2008, p. 126. 5 MuhibbinSyah, Psikologi Pendidikan dengan Pendekatan Baru, Edisi Revisi, Bandung: PT Remaja Rosdakarya, 2010, p. 134. 45

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A. Conclusion

Parents who show some concern to and take an active role in the life of their children and presumably have a positive influence on students’ academic achievement were successfully researched. A significant correlation was found between those parents attention and the students English learning achievement at SMP Ibu Pertiwi Jakarta Barat in the academic year 2014-2015. The significant correlation could be seen from r result r table = 0.996 0.80 which means there is very high correlation between parents’ involvement and student’s English learning achievement. Additionally, the other data were obtained to show that students who got low achievement are influenced by the lack of their parents in monitoring the schedule and lack of cares which cause the children live without rules. Moreover, the result shows that the low achievement students are dominated by male gender. On the other hand, the students who got good achievement are fortunately coming from a better family background where the student’s needs are fulfilled and provided appropriately. In conclusion, parents who are giving their best to support, monitor and motivate their children in academic life will improve children ’s performance in gaining good English learning achievement at school.

B. Suggestion

Knowing the result, the researcher intends to give some suggestions as follow: 1 It is suggested that the parents need to have more cares and engagement to their children about their learning activities in the school; 2 It is also suggested that the parents and teachers, especially in SMP Ibu Pertiwi, will increase their communication about the student ’s performance in