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mastery of a particular syllabus, such as: final test, school leaving examinations, and public tests. These tests are generally based on a syllabus
and measure what has been taught and has been learned. They are rarely constructed by the classroom teacher for a particular class and they are
designed primarily to measure individual performance rather than to act as a means of motivating the students or reinforcing learning. The score of this
achievement test can show whether the students have succeeded in learning.
1.2 Reason for Choosing the Topic
Learning second language is difficult, especially in learning English. Sometimes, students have problems in learning English. Because of it,
students use some strategies in learning English. They use these strategies to solve their learning problem. On the other hand, some students also use it to
increase their English achievement test scores. From their scores, the students will know whether they have been successful learners.
In this final project, the writer chooses this topic to know whether there is a correlation between students’ learning strategies and their scores in
English reading achievement test. Then, from the result of the correlation analysis, it will be known whether or not learning strategies are related to
their achievement test scores and whether or not learning strategies are important in learning English.
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1.3 Statements of the Problem
In this final project, the writer intends to limit the discussion by presenting the following problem:
Is there any significant correlation between learning strategies and English reading achievement test scores of the eighth graders of MTS
N 1 Semarang in the academic year of 2009 2010?
1.4 Objectives of the Study
This final project has objective as follow: To find out whether or not there is a significant correlation between
learning strategies and English reading achievement test scores of the eighth graders of MTS N 1 Semarang in the academic year of 2009
2010.
1.5 Statements of the Hypothesis
Based on the above statement of the problem, the writer hypothesizes that ”There is a significant correlation between learning strategies and English
reading achievement test scores of the eighth graders of MTS N 1 Semarang in the academic year 2009 2010.
However, since the way of testing the hypothesis is conducted using statistics, the above statement is changed into the following null hypothesis
Ho:” There is no correlation between learning strategies and English reading achievement test scores of the eighth graders of MTS N 1 Semarang
in the academic year 2009 2010.
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1.6 Significance of the Study
