Author (Penulis)

RIZQI MAHARANTAU
Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri

Author Identity (NPM)

11.1.01.08.0175

Abstract

It has been generally well-known that most people faced some problems in learning English as a second or foreign language in non-English speaking countries. In teaching English for senior high school students, the teacher should pay attention to the students’ interests, so that the students enjoy learning which can increase students’ ability. According Jayne (2000:7) that if the pupils enjoy the learning activity, they will be more involved to increase their desire to continue. A study focuses on the factors that impact on their poor English performance. Data were drawn from the question what causes that make students less interested in learning English? And what students do in the class when they are less interested in learning English? This is a qualitative case study. It is conducted at SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Kediri on academic year 2014/2015. The instruments that are used are observation, interview, questionnaire, and supported by documentation. The observation is done when teaching-learning process in the class which by taking some notes. The interview is done to know about some information from the teacher. The result of interview and questionnaire are given descriptively. Based on the research’s findings that first, the majority of students stated that the English teacher is not well-trained. Secondly, students lack of English foundation background. Third, students lack of confidence to use English because they are afraid of mistakes and shy feeling. Last but not least, English language is difficult to learn due to students are not well-motivated, encouraged and gained learning strategy. Furthermore, students do not practice speaking English with English native speakers, and class environment is crowded and noisy that is not fulfilled with teaching pedagogy. Finally, the researcher concludes that the first, there are some factors that affect the students’ interest in learning English include motivation, family background, teacher, environment and friends. Secondly, the students show bad attitude in the classroom when they are not interested with teaching-learning process by doing useless activities. There are also suggestions for English teachers and further researchers. Teachers need understand kind of students’ characteristic, and have many strategies to make students enjoy when follow teaching-learning process. For further researchers, this research can become the reference.

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PUBLISHED

2016-01-12

JOURNAL

Simki-Pedagogia

ISSN

2599-073X

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