Ahmad Junaidi Azra (2011) THE STUDENTS’ INTEREST IN LEARNING ENGLISH THROUGH PAIR – WORK ACTIVITIES AT THE SECOND YEAR SMA N 1 SINGINGI. Skripsi thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau.

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The title of this thesis is: “The Students’ Interest in Learning English through Pair work Activities at Second Year SMAN1 Singingi”. The design of this research is an experimental research with single group design by analyzing the students’ interest score in pre-test and posttest through the questionnaire. Based on the phenomena of the problem, there important problem that is discussed in this research is about how is the second year students’ interest at SMAN 1 Singingi in learning English through pair-work activities? And what factors that influence the second year students’ interest at SMAN 1 Singinigi in learning English? This research was conducted at SMAN 1 Singingi. Jl. Jend. Sudirman KM 3 Muara Lembu Kec. Singingi Kab. Kuantan Singingi. The subject of this research is the second year students of SMAN 1 Singingi and the object of this research is their interest in learning english through pair-work activities. The writer takes 86 samples of total 106 students based on Morgan table (1988). To obtain the data of the research, the writer use the questionnaire and the interview. Questionnaire is to obtain the data about the students’ interest in learning English. This questionnaire consists of 34 statements that use Likert scale. The use of questionnaire is more effective because the number of sample is big enough. The interview is used to find out the factors that influence the students’ interest in learning English. To analyze the students’ score in pre-test and posttest, the writer use the formula: Finally, based on the research findings about the second year students of SMAN 1 Singingi interest in learning English through pair-work activities, there is a significance difference between the students’ pre-test score and posttest score, the increasing of interest is 2.09128 and it is significant at 0.10 level of significance. Finally, the factors that influence the students’ interest in learning English are their motivation, the limitation of learning media, learning material, the teachers’ teaching methodology, the amount of time, intelligence, the condition of the class, environment, family and peers.

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