THE CORRELATION BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND STUDENTS’ ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENTS AT THE TENTH GRADE OF SMA N 4 BUKITTINGGI
ABSTRACT Anggun Delmi Trisnawati , 2314.015, Correlation Between Emotional Intelligence and Students’ English Achievement at the Tenth Grade of SMAN 4 Bukittinggi. This research was conducted because there were many problems in student learning achievement in English lessons. There were , the first some student’s have good emotional intelligence but lack of achievement in English. Such as some student’s are able to undestand of emotion in themself , some student’s are able to manage there emotion , some student’s are able to motivate themself , some student’s are able to understasnd there emotion of other people , some student’s are able to wreather relationship with other . But the student’s lack of achievement in English. The secondly sosme student’s did not good emotional intelligence but good in acheievement in English. Such as some student’s did not able to undestand they emotin in themself , some student did not able to manege them emotion , some student’s did ot able to motivate themself , some student’s did not able to understand the other’s emotion , some studendt’s did able to wrewther relationship with other’s. But the student’s good in English achievement. This studied aimed at finding out the correlation between emotional intelligence and student’s English achievement . This research is a correlation study. Total population of 336 people, the sample was taken from 34 people who took one of class X, namely class X IPS 1. Data obtained through a questionnaire about emotional intelligence that the authors distributed to students and documentation for students' English achievement. Furthermore, the data collected will be processed using the Spearman Level Correlation formula ( ). To test the hypothesis, researchers used the t-test and consulted the results with a t table with = 0.05. Based on the results of the study, the correlation coefficient ( ) between emotional intelligence and English achievement of students was 0.78. In other words, there is a relationship between emotional intelligence and students' English achievement. In testing the hypothesis, the t value is 0.78 while the value of t table with = 0.05 is 0.52. In other words, the calculated t value is greater than the t table value. Then the alternative hypothesis is accepted and the null hypothesis which states that there is no significant correlation between emotional intelligence and English achievement of students is rejected. Keywords: emotional intelligence, learning achievement