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Achievement tests should support and reinforce other aspects of the instructional process. They can aid both
the teacher and students to assessing learning outcomes…monitoring learning progress…diagnosing
learning difficulties…and evaluating learning outcomes….
This implies that achievement tests can aid students and teachers to assess and evaluate learning outcomes. Achievement tests also help
students and teachers to monitor learning progress and diagnose learning difficulties. Besides, achievement tests are also as a proponent of other
aspects of the instructional process.
2.2.5 Achievement Test Scores
The achievement test score should show the result of teaching learning process because achievement test relates to the past in that they measure what language
the students have learned as a result of teaching learning process. Achievement test score can show what the learners have achieved the goals of learning. If the
learners have achieved the goals of learning, they can be successful learners. The frequency of score shows the frequency of goals that has been achieved by
the learners. So, it can be concluded that the achievement test score shows who successful learners are.
2.2.6 The Relationship between Learning Strategies and Achievement Test Scores
Because achievement test scores show the result of study, so students have
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to have a strategy in their learning process. Learning strategies are used by students to be successful learners. Because successful learners get the high
scores of achievement test, so students use learning strategies to get the high score.
It means that students that have the high scores show that their strategies are appropriate and effective to be used. The scores can show
which learning strategies are appropriate to the students.
2.3 Theoretical Framework
There are many studies on learning strategies which are conducted by language researchers, but there is no research about learning strategies
which are used by eighth graders of junior high school, especially on MTS N 1 Semarang in the academic year 20092010 and their relation to
students’ achievement test scores. Then, this research is conducted to complete it.
Every student has to get high score in achievement test. It will be got in several ways. One of them is by learning. In learning, students have to
have strategies so they can be successful learners. According to Willis 2004:10 different types of learners adopt different strategies for learning
successfully. Good learners tend to have more strategies than weak ones, and they use them more regularly.
According to Richard-Amato 2003:83 learning strategies usually are applied spontaneously and they often come to the individual naturally as
