The Interpretation of the Data
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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 .”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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