THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE INTENSITY OF LIBRARY ACCESS AND STUDENTS' ENGLISH ACHIEVEMENT OF GRADE XI AT SMA MUHAMMADIYAH 3 YOGYAKARTA.

The results show that the intensity of library access of Grade XI at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta was in medium category. Most of the data or around 53% of students were in interval 3.1 – 3.6, which indicate that they had medium level of interaction with the school library. The level of students’ English achievement of Grade XI at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta was in good level. Most of respondents (95%) were in score 70.00 – 89.00, with means 81.34 which indicates that they were in good category. It means that students of Grade XI at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta have good English achievement. The last result on correlation between the intensity of library access and students’ English achievement shows that the intensity of library access weakly correlated with students’ English achievement (r = 0.250, P. 0 < 0.011) . The weak correlation may caused by the questionnaire did not only measure students’ activities in utilizing the English learning sources, but also measured all students’ activities of students in utilizing all sources of collection and literature in the school library of SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta. Therefore, the hypothesis H1 (there is a positive correlation between the intensity of library access and students’ English achievement of Grade XI at SMA Muhammadiyah 3 Yogyakarta) is accepted and the null hypothesis Ho is rejected.