Electronic Theses and Dissertation

This writing is intended to describe about the role of motivation of the second year students of sman 2 kejuruan muda, aceh tamiang in mastering english reading comprehension which focuses mainly on the internal and external motivation and sex differences. the data were obtained from 44 students consisting of i males and 25 females the instruments used for data collection were a set of closed questionnaires of likert scale, and a set of reading comprehension test. the learners were categorized into the motivation they have as well as sex differences. in analyzing the data, the simple statistical procedure such as, mean to measure the average score of students achievement, and t test to compare the significant differences of two mean were applied in this study. the findings show that there is no significant difference from the internally and externally motivated students in mastering treading comprehension however, girls show that they have higher scores than boys in mastering reading comprehension