The study aimed at investigating the correlation between students’ metacognition and their academic achievement at the eleventh grade of SMAN 8 Kendari. The objective of the study is to answer the following research question: is there any significant correlation between student’s metacognition and their academic achievement in English subject at SMAN 8 Kendari?. The study was correlation research study, which employed quantitative research methods.  The  data  was collected  from  46  participants who are from SMA N 8 Kendari class XI IPA I and IPS II. The data collection was carried out by using a Metacognition questionnaire and English achievement students  from  report  card.  Researcher  used  cluster random  sampling technique  in  taking the  sample.  The data of the study was analyzed through Spearman correlation analysis of SPSS 16. The result shows that the coefficient correlation that obtained from the computation is 0,443  and  categorized  as moderate  correlation.  The result  shows  that  there  is  a  significant  correlation between students’ metacognition and their academic achievement in English subject. This conclusion of this study  was drawn  through  the  result  of computation which showed that the value of coefficient correlation (r) between two variables, that was students’ metacognition as the  variable  X  and  academic  achievement  as the variable Y, is as moderate as that of the Spearman correlation table with 0,05 level significant. Further, the data showed that there was a moderate correlation. Therefore, it  means that  the  alternative  hypothesis was accepted   and   the   null   hypothesis   was   rejected. Keywords: Metacognition, Academic Achievement
Copyrights © 2019