THE EFFECT OF GIVEN REWARD TOWARDSTUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN READINGDESCRIPTIVE TEXT AT THE FIRST YEAR OF MTsN KAMPAR DISTRICT OF KAMPAR REGENCY

English is one of the courses in the school. It needs teaching and learning process. Nowadays, teaching English is beginning from the lowest level of education until the highest level. The teachers have important role to motivate the students to learn English. Based on the writer’s preliminary observation at MTsN Kampar most of the students do not have motivation in reading process. There are some students who feel bored, tired, and lazy if the teacher gives them reading subject, especially in reading descriptive text.The research was done at MTsNKampar,the main concern of this research is to obtain the effect of given reward toward student’s motivation in reading descriptive text. The design of this reasearch was experimental research. The subject of this research is the first year students of MTsN Kampar that consists of two classes. The researcher takes two classes as control class and experiment class. The object of this research is the effect of given reward toward students’ motivation in reading descriptive text. The instruments of this research are classroom observation and questionnaires. After the researcher collect the data into data recapitulation. The researcher analyzed the data by using the following formula: √ √ Based on the research finding, there is significant effect of the reward toward students’ motivation in reading descriptive text at the first years of MTsN Kampar. It can be seen also fromT-table at the 5% level of significance which refers to 2.00. While, in the level of significance 1% is 2.65. Therefore, it can be analyzed that to is higher than t table in either at 5% or 1% level of significance. It can be read that 2.00< 3.70 >2.65. So, Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted