Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to describe some of the following the contribution of learningmotivation and reading comprehension skill together to writing biography text of students of class VIII Junior High School in Pesisir Selatan. This is because writing lessons cannot be separated fromvariousproblems, such as students' dif iculties in developing ideas, lack of motivation, and limited readingmaterials about inspirational figures. Though writing skills require motivation and good readingskills. Meanwhile, in learning to write biographical texts, students are still less motivated to write andhavedif iculty writing biographies of figures. This research was quantitative research using the correlational method. The population was class VIII students Junior High School of Pesisir Selatan Regency. Thesample is 110 students. Techniques to data analysis using Pearson Product Moment Correlational test, multiple regression, t-test, and F test. The results of the research are. 1) The learning motivationcontributes significantly by 20% to writing biography text. 2) The reading comprehensionskill contributes significantly by 37.5% to writing biography text. 3) The learning motivation and readingcomprehension skills together contribute by 38% to the writing biography text. Based on the result of theresearch can conclusion is learning motivation and reading comprehension skills together contributeandsignificant relationship to writing biography text skills.
