The Effect of Achievement Motivation on Students' Learning Outcomes in Writing English Descriptive Paragraph through Individual and Group Work Method

DOI

10.2991/ice-17.2018.5How to use a DOI?

Keywords

High, Low, Achievement Motivation, Learning Outcomes.

Abstract

Achievement motivation is a hard intention followed by a hard effort which owned by the students in order to reach high learning outcomes. This research at aims to find out the difference of students' learning outcomes as an effect of achievement motivation in writing English descriptive paragraph through individual and group work method. It was a quasi-experimental research nonequivalent control group design, implemented into five different parallel classes. The technique of selecting sample was purposive sampling in which A as control class and B as experimental one with 86 total students, and 78 students were accepted as a subject survey. Data of students learning outcomes collected through pretest and posttest. While data on students' achievement motivation used questionnaire. The pretest data were taken before treatment, used to determine students' variance, whereas posttest data was taken after treatment entirely finished to find out students' learning outcomes differences. Data analysis using variance factorial 2x2 (two way ANOVA). The hypothesis testing was conducted with 5% of significance level. The result of data analysis showed that the p-value of t-counted is 0.000 lower than 0.05(?0.05). It could be concluded that there was a significant difference in learning outcomes between the students with high achievement motivation and the students with low achievement motivation in writing English descriptive paragraph through individual and group work method.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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