THE INFLUENCE OF STUDENTS’ EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND ON THEIR ACHIEVEMENT IN LEARNING ENGLISH

Abstract

This research generally attempts to see wheather students‘ educational background influence students‘ achievement in learning English at the sixth semester students of English Education Department Universitas Bosowa Makassar academic year 2017/2018. To know students‘ educational background, collecting data used questionnaire. The method used comparative study by comparing students‘ achievement on students from State School and Private School backgrounds.As the qualitative method,the data was analyzed by using ttest.The result of the research showed that there was a significant influence of students educational background between the students from the State school and the Private school. The result of data analysis showed variable X1 and X2 using t-test showed that the value of (t observation) show the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted. Therefore, it can be concluded that students from state school have a good score compared than students from private school.