THE CORRELATION BETWEEN EXTRACURRICULAR SCORE AND SCORE IN ENGLISH AT KARYA YOSEF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Abstract

Karya Yosef elementary school is one of the schools that include English lesson in their curriculum. This is helpful for students in order to understand English as a foreign language. Karya Yosef elementary school provides English extracurricular program beside English lesson in the formal class to help students develop their abilities and skills in English. The writer would like to find out the correlation between English extracurricular score and students’ scores in English class. This research uses a quantitative method to find the correlation between the variables. The population were students who joined the English club with samples were students in grade 1-3 at SD Karya Yosef Pontianak by using purposive sampling method. Data analysis used is Pearson product-moment in SPSS. The result shows no correlation between English extracurricular score and students’ score in grade 1 English class. However, there was a positive correlation between English extracurricular score and students’ score in grade 2 and 3 English class at Karya Yosef elementary school Pontianak.