STUDENTS' SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS AND THEIR ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENT IN INDONESIAN PERSPECTIVE

AT SMP MUHAMMADIYAH 1 MAKASSAR

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to know and explain the relationship between students’ socio-economic status and their English achievement in the 8th grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah 1 Makassar. The sample for this study consists of 29 students from class A. The data comes from a survey of the students' socioeconomic status, as well as information from the English teacher on students' English achievement and results on the odd semester final exam. Person Product Moment Correlation in SPSS Program Version 23 was used to calculate both data sets. Referring to the research question, the result shows that there was a positive significance correlation between students’ socio-economic status (X) and their English achievement (Y). It was found that the correlation value was equal to 0,535, which means the correlation between two variables is moderate (0.40–0.599), it is included in the third category. As the findings showed, rxy>rtable= 0.535 > 0.367. Therefore, it can be concluded that the students’ higher SES had an influence on how their achievement will be measured. Future researchers should do the study with certain improvements (if using the same approach), such as the type of questionnaire, amount of samples, prior studies, and so on. The link between students' socioeconomic situation and their learning success should be shown more clearly and comprehensibly as a result of this.