Factors Controlling the Achievement of Elementary School Students in Learning English as a Local Content Subject

 

 

Sri Rachmajanti

Gunadi Harry Sulistyo

 

 

The current study aims at analysing factors such as teachers’ characteristics, parents’ characteristics, environment characteristic, characteristics of the teaching learning process in the classroom, and students’ characteristics which are potential in the students’ learning achievement of English. To this end, a correlational study was conducted. The target population of the present study was all elementary schools in Malang Municipality that had adopted English as a local content subject, comprising 181 schools. The school sample was drawn using cluster sampling, whereas the student, the parent, and teacher samples were drawn using proportional, purposive, random sampling, which resulted in 16 elementary schools, 16 English teachers, 407 students with their 407 parents. The data were collected using a set of tests and a set of questionnaires. The data collected were then statistically examined using analysis of regression. The study revealed that (1) a positive and significant correlation was observed between each of the following variables: parents’ characteristics ( r = 0.1279; p = 0.010), environment characteristics (r = 0.1675; p = 0.001), and characteristics of the teaching learning process in the classroom (r = 0.0996; p = 0.045) and students’ achievement; (2) a negative and non-significant correlation was evidenced in teachers’ characteristics and students’ achievement.

 

 

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Rachmajanti, S., & Sulistyo, G. H. (2002). Factors controlling the achievement of elementary school students in learning English as a local content subject? Bahasa dan Seni, 30(2), 233-247.

 

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