Investigating Students’ Engagement in EFL Learning: Does it Improve Student Achievement?
Abstract
This study aims to determine whether there is a correlation between students’ engagement and students’ achievement, to investigate students’ engagement level in EFL classroom and to identify the factors affecting their engagement in the classes. Mix method was employed in this study. Seventh grade students in MTS Nurul Hidayah were involved as the respondents of this research. The data of this research were obtained from test, questionnaire and interview. Then, the data obtained were analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. The results of this study revealed that the result of the Sig (2-tailed) value is 0.004 < 0.05, which means the Alternative Hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. It indicates that there is a correlation between students' engagement and students’ achievement. Furthermore, the data from questionnaire showed that there are three engagement levels including emotional, behavioural and cognitive engagement. The last, the data from interview also showed that there are two factors affecting students’ engagement in EFL learning such as contextual and personal factors. Thus, by measuring the level of student engagement, teachers will be able to effectively design learning activities that will encourage students’ active participation in the learning process.
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