CORRELATION BETWEEN ENGLISH STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION IN ESA (ENGLISH STUDENTS ASSOCIATION) AND THEIR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

nuur insan tangkelangi, rusdiana junaid

Abstract


Many studies found that there was correlation between the students’ participation in organization and their academic achievement. However, in a higher institution, where this study takes place, there is an assumption states that participating in organization does not have any relation with the students’ academic achievement even though the organization is related to their field of study. Therefore, this study is directed to investigate whether the assumption is correct or not. In conducting this study, thirty five English students of the seventh semester were randomly taken as the sample. Questionnaires were distributed to collect data about degree of the students’ participation in ESA (English Students Association) and their GPA scores. The result shows that the assumption is correct; there is no relation between English students’ participation in ESA and their academic achievement. It is shown on the result of correlational computation which shows that the correlational value is -0.19 and the critical value is 0.4487; the correlation is negative but not significant. So, the null hypothesis which says that there is no relation between those two variables is accepted. This result is contrast with the principle of establishing ESA; to support the English students’ competences in English. Therefore, some recommendations are presented at the final section of this paper.

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