THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ CONSCIENTIOUSNESS PERSONALITY AND THEIR ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENT AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 3 MANDAU BENGKALIS

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine whether there is any significant correlation between conscientiousness personality and English achievement at the eleventh grade student of senior high school 03 Mandau. There were 60 students as samples by using simple random sampling technique. This research approach was quantitative method and the technique used in this research was a correlational technique. In collecting the data, the writer distributed the questionnaire to the respondents to determine the conscientiousness personality, which consist of 42 item statements that was constructed based on the indicators of conscientiousness personality by Premuzic & Furnham and used documentation of the students’ score made by English teacher at the school to determine the English achievement.. The writer used Pearson Product Moment Correlation through SPSS 20.0 to analyze the data. The result of this research showed that sig.r obtained value is 0.000 lower than alpha value (0.05). it means that null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected while alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. The value of robtained is 0.525 > rtable is 0.254. In conclusion, there is a correlation between conscientiousness personality and their English achievement at Senior High School 03 Mandau. Key word: Conscientiousness Personality, English Achievement