The parental involvement on English achievement of seventh grade students at SMPN 1 Maduran-Lamongan

This research is conducted to find out the correlation between parental involvement and students English achievement. English achievement becomes subject of this study because English is one of major lessons in Junior High School. One of the influential external factors toward students achievement is parental involvement. The theory of parental involvement used for this study is based on the Epsteins framework of six types of parental involvement Parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, decisions making, and collaborating with community. Those are known as Overlapping Spheres of Influence theory.