STUDENTS’ INTEREST IN LEARNING ENGLISH OF ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS SMA NEGERI 1 SUKODADI

Nur Ainia

doi:10.30736/ej.v7i2.337

Abstract

This research aimed to know the students interest in learning English and to know the interest of male and females students in learning English. The type of this research was qualitative approaches. The subject of this study were the eleventh grade students of social 2 at SMA Negeri 1 Sukodadi Lamongan. Total students are 32 students. The techniques of collecting data are interview and questionnaire. The primary instruments of this research is interview instrument. In addition by using questionnaire sheet. The technique for analyzing Data collection techniques carried out in two ways, namely: interview and questionnaire. Data analysis technique using descriptive analysis, the researcher explains one by one of the two ways that can be done in data collection. The results of this study indicate that students have low interest in learning English, it also supported by the results of the questionnaire. Based on the results of the English teacher and students interviews also the questionnaire that showed students’ interest in learning English were very low, the feeling of pleasure and interest of students in learning English as well as too monotonous learning method became the main factors that cause students’ interest in learning English. Keywords: Learning interest, English lesson

Highlights

Education is the most important element for the progress of a nation, with a good education the nation will be able to produce superior human resources, and a generation of qualified people will be able to have major influence on the progress of the nation
Interest plays a very important role in learning, because if a person is not interested in learning something, it will not work well, but if someone has an interest in the object of the problem it can be expected results well, with interest Learning will make students more actively involved in the learning process
AND DISCUSSION The interview stage was conducted by researchers with some students in the eleventh grade of social 2, this interview technique was carried out by randomizing the names of students the researchers obtained from student absences and interviewing English teachers in their class

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Introduction

Education is the most important element for the progress of a nation, with a good education the nation will be able to produce superior human resources, and a generation of qualified people will be able to have major influence on the progress of the nation. Interest plays a very important role in learning, because if a person is not interested in learning something, it will not work well, but if someone has an interest in the object of the problem it can be expected results well, with interest Learning will make students more actively involved in the learning process. Slamet (2010) states that interest is persisting tendency to pay attention to and enjoy some activity and content. Interest will rise if get a stimulus from the outside and feel pleasure trough something This feels arising from the environment or from the object of interest. It can be seen, if a teacher want to success in doing teaching and learning activities should be able to provide stimulus to the students, so that they are interested in participating in the learning process

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