The Correlation between Students’ Chronotype and Motivation in Learning English

The chronotype is a circadian clock type or feeling preference best in the morning type or night type conditions. A chronotype link with learning is a chronotype control where students are in the wrong type of chronotype, it will affect whether or not the learning process is smooth and vice versa. The level of motivation is chanted that it can help students to control the chronotype of students to learn English. This research is quantitative research, especially correlational research. Among them, Likert scale data is carried out using a questionnaire. The sample in this study were students of UINSA semester 2 in the Spoken English course. In this study, the majority of selected participants had criteria of adolescents and adults between 17 and 20. The chronotype type output of the students shows the numbers (67%) for the morning type. Accompanied by several morning type students who could not control the chronotype due to low motivation (5%). For the night type, it is (33%) but among those who have the night type, there are also (62.5%) who are motivated and can control their chronotype when studying in the morning or evening where they don't have the best feelings. There are also students who choose between low and high, namely moderate (32.5%). The two results of the variables owned by this study produce a total score obtained from the significance value of the Spearman correlation in the findings of this study which is (0.645 which indicates that there is no correlation with the direction of the negative coefficient, namely (-0.075). It can be interpreted in the Spearman correlation reference that the variables have no total correlation. Thus, the alternative hypothesis (H1) which states that there is a relationship between the chronotype and students' motivation to learn English, has not been achieved. This study focuses on knowing the type of chronotype of students, the level of student motivation and the level of correlation in the two.