Correlation between students engagement and students English achievement
The background of this research was several problems where some students had high engagementbut low learning achievement in English, and some students had high behavioral and emotional engagement but low learning achievement and some students had low cognitive engagemet and low english achievement.Thisresearchaimedtofindoutwhetherthereiscorrelationbetween students‟ engagement and their learning achievement on English of ninthh grade students at UPT SMPN 3 X . The design of this research was correlation design. The population of this research was all of ninth grade students of UPT SMPN 3 X koto which consisted of 70 students. This research used total sampling because the population was less than a hundred. To collect data, this research used questionnaire to measure students' engagement, and test scores were used to measure their learning achievementonEnglish.Thedatainthisresearch wasanalyzedusingthePearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) with SPSS 25 windows. The finding of the research showed that the Pearson Product Moment Correlation (r) was 0,616. It means, there was a positive correlation between students‟ emotional quotient and their learning achievement on English. The result of the magnitude between the two variables was high because it lies between the interpretations of 0.60-0.80.Based on hypothesis testing, the rxywas 0.616 whereas r - table on α = 0.05 was 0.2319. It means that rxyscore is bigger than r - table score. Hence, Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected. Thus, therewasapositivecorrelationbetweenstudents‟emotionalquotientandtheirlearning achievement on English of ninthh grade students at UPT SMPN 3 X Koto .