Institutional Repository | Satya Wacana Christian University: The Correlation Between Students' Motivation and Their Scores in Integrated Course

The Correlation between Students’ Motivation and their Scores
in Integrated Course
Agnes Yulia Terviana

Abstract
One of the courses offered to English Department students in the first year is Integrated
Course, which integrates the four language skills; reading, writing, listening and speaking
and also other language components such as grammar and vocabulary. One problem faced
by students in this course is motivation. This study aims to describe how motivation
correlates with students’ achievement, since motivation is always considered as an influential
factor toward students’ achievement in successful language learning. This research was
conducted on 98 English Teacher Education students in Satya Wacana Christian University,
Salatiga, Indonesia. There were questionnaires with 15 items provided to find out the
students’ motivation. In order to describe the correlation between the data sets, the
motivation scores were calculated together with Integrated Course final scores using
Spearman Rank-Order Correlation Coefficient. The result shows that achievement in
Integrated Course is not always affected by students’ motivation itself. A highly-motivated
student did not always have greater achievement compared to a student with low motivation.
Keywords: motivation, achievement, Integrated Course.