The Effectiveness of Private Versus Public Schools: The Case

E. Thingking Framework

Students’ achievement represents their learning process. On the process of learning, students’ have important role in determining their achievement. However, different student has different ability. Some students are better in learning than others. Some of them are progress to the materials, but some others are not or perhaps slow. This difference is affected by many factors, one of them is students’ background knowledge. Astudent who has much background knowledge about English must be easy to follow the lesson and ready to learn higher level. In other hand, a student who has lack of background knowledge about English must be got difficulties and it will be an obstracle to follow the higher level. The difference of background knowledge not only because of students ability itself, but also it influences by the external factors such as school where they had studied. For the students of English Education Department, they had studied English at the secondary schools. However, every school has different goal, and of course it determines learning process. Moreover, there are schools which characteristically difference. Thus, different school will graduate students with difference ability and language level, and the knowledge they got at schools will influence their learning process at university. A student who has background knowledge about the material he is going to learn, will easy to understand about the lesson and must be ready to learn further about the lesson. In other hand, a student who has lack background knowledge will find difficulties to understand, and they unready to learn higher level. Based on the explanation above, it can be inferred that students’ educational background is not less important in learning process and may influence students’ achievement in learning English.

F. Hypothesis

The difference English knowledge that students got based on their educational background indirectly influences their achievement in learning English at university. To know how its influence, it will be formulated by hypothesis bellow: Ho : There is no significant influence between students’ educational background and their achievement Ha : There is significant influence between students’ educational background and their achievement