RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STUDENTS’ CREATIVITY AND THEIR ENGLISH LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
of the Study
English
is an important language. It becomes the international communication language.
In Indonesia, English is the first foreign language. Because English is an
important position, it is taught from the fourth grade of elementary school in
some schools as an alternative subject and from the first grade of junior high
school (SMP) up to third grade of senior high school (SMA) as one of the
compulsory subjects. The students of SMP and SMA are hoped to have enough
competence in English because it becomes a subject tested in UAN (Ujian Akhir
Nasional). The result of UAN has been satisfactory. This is supported by the
fact that UAN English score of SMP and SMA are successful. According to Bambang
as quoted from http://www.depdiknas.go.id (2006) explains that average score of
UAN in English is 7.54. It is higher than UAN standard which is 4.5. It means
that the score is satisfactory, but improvement is still needed to achieve the
best result.
In
order to reach the goal above, many experts of education try to reveal the
problems of English learning. To overcome the problems, they try to carry out
different attempts to improve English teaching learning processes. The
curriculum, approach, method, and technique of English teaching are always
revised and improved in order to meet the goals of the teaching learning
process.
Sofiah
(1998: 5) states that the success of the English teaching learning processes at
schools depends on the teachers for they are key figures in the classroom. It is considered that if the
teachers do not have good competence in the teaching learning process, the
students will not achieve the objectives. In addition, Sofiah states that the
source of the problems is not the teacher, but also the institution related to
education. It is assumed that this
institution is also responsible to the results of teaching learning processes
since its output is related to the results of teaching learning processes.
Citrawati
(2002: 8) states that there is another factor that may influence the students'
achievement: students' factor. The students as subjects in the learning process
have different characteristics. Each student differs in intelligence, sex,
socioeconomic background, motivation, attitude, and learning strategies.
Based
on this view, the writer is interested in knowing what factors that actually
influence in learning English. This time, the focus of the study is on
students’ creativity. Creativity can be defined as thinking ability in managing
a problem referring to his experiences or knowledge. Creativity will make the
students sensitive to the problem they have, looking for the solutions and
giving the ideas to solve the problems in learning. For example, in English
learning, the students always find the difficulties although the teacher has explained
the subject and given information has been completed. The students having high
creativity tend to find the difficulty they have and look for the solution. The
creative students will have many alternatives in solving the difficulties in
English learning. The writer predicts that the students having high creativity
are able to get better achievement in English learning.
B.
Reason
for Choosing the Topic
The
writer conducts this study with the following reasons:
1. Creativity as one of the psychological aspects plays an important role in a teaching learning process.
2. As foreign language, English is very important and it is not easy to learn it since there are many difficulties involved.
3. The result of the study can support the teachers and the students in English teaching-learning process.
4. The result of the study can be used to know how important of creativity in learning English.
C.
Statement
of the Problems
Based
on the background above, the writer wants to state a problem:
Is
there any positive and significant relationship between the students’
creativity and their English learning
achievement of the tenth grade students of SMAN?
D.
Purposes
of the Study
The
purposes of the study can be stated as follows:
1. To
describe the students’ creativity of the tenth grade students of SMA N .
2. To
describe the students English learning achievement of the tenth grade students
of SMA N
3. To
find out whether there is any positive and significant relationship between the
students’ creativity and their English learning achievement.
E.
Significance
of the Study
The
result of this study will be useful in some ways. Theoretically, it could
provide information about the students’ creativity and learning achievement.
Practically, it would be worth considering when people try to improve the
English teaching process.
F.
Hypothesis
Based
on the statement of the problems above, the hypothesis of this study can be
formulated as follows:
There
is a positive and significant relationship between students’ creativity and
their English learning achievement.
G.
Outline
of the study
This
study consists of five chapters. Chapter I presents the background of the
study, the reason for choosing the topic,
the statement of the problems,
the purposes of the study, the significances of the study, the hypothesis and
the outline of the thesis.
Chapter
II presents the theoretical review, which consists of theories of learning
achievement, which contains the definitions of learning, learning achievement,
factors affecting learning achievement, and measurement of learning
achievement. The second topic is concerned with the students’ creativity
including the definitions of creativity, the characteristics of a creative
person, and measurement of creativity.
Chapter
III deals with the method of investigation, which discusses the research
design, population, sample, variables, the instrument, validity and
reliability, procedure of collecting data and the method of analyzing data.
Chapter IV presents the data analysis and the discussion of the result. Chapter
V presents the conclusions of the investigation with the suggestion.
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