THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ AUTONOMOUS LEVEL IN ENGLISH LEARNING AND STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT (GPA)

This studyaimed to investigate thecorrelation betweenstudents’
autonomous learningandstudents’ academic achievement through correlational
research design. Thedatawere collected from45students, itwas from 122 of total
populationat English teacher training programin Universitas Bengkulu.
Theinstrumentisthe questionnaire consist of 38 items and document to gain
students’GPA.Theresultshowed that students had “high”level ofautonomous
learning with themean value on 114.78. They were also had “high”level of
academicachievement with the mean valueof GPA on 3.52.Thefindings showed
thatthe significancevalue (p-value)was on0.013 lower than 0.05. Then, thestrength
of correlationwas in thelow level with Pearson correlation value(r-value) was on
0.295.Therewas apositive, significant correlation between students’ autonomous
learningand students’ academic achievement. So, the alternativehypothesis
(H1)was acceptedthat there wasa positive, significant correlation between
students’autonomous learningand students’ academic achievement.
Keywords:Autonomus Learning, Academic Achievement (GPA), fifth semester
English Department students.