MINAT BELAJAR SISWA MELALUI PENGELOLAAN KELAS : The students' interest in learning through classroom management

Abstract

The method of this research was descriptive method. The population of this research consisted of Senior High School Students in 2014/2015 academic year. It used random sampling technique where the writer took one class of the second-year students which consisted of 33 students. The data were collected through questionnaires. The data analyzed using Likert Scale. The result of data analysis showed that the second-year students at SMA Negeri 1 Anggeraja shows their high interest in learning English through classroom management. The use of classroom management to learn English gave many benefits to the students, such as; (1) they felt relax, more serious and active in the class, they had a high initiative and strong enthusiastic in learning, (2) create friendly and cooperate atmosphere for language learning, (3) attract the attention of the students and willing to learn, (4) and create a strong motivation to learn. It was proven by the result of the mean score of the students’ questionnaire namely 87 which mean that the majority of the students agreed with the positive statements and disagreed with the negative ones about the use of classroom management in learn English.