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Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau, through journal publication on 2011 by the title “Factors
influencing students’ interest in learning English at the first year students of SMUN 3
Rumbai”. The subject of this research are the first year students of SMUN 3 Rumbai, The
object of this research is the factor that influence students’ interest in learning English. The
population and sample of this research were all first year students of SMUN 3 Rumbai. They
consisted of eight classes. The total were number of the population was 56 students. The
technique of collecting data, the researcher use questionnaire. Based on result of the research,
the researcher found there are some factors that influence students’ interest in learning
English. They are: internal factors (come from the students themselves such as physical
condition, intelligence, attaining, and readiness) and external factors such us family, teacher,
school, and peer. The dominant factors that influence students interest is school factors.
Baubau, through thesis of legalization on Tuesday, 25 Agustus 2015 by the title “The effort to
increase students’ interest in learning English at the first grade students of SMAN 1 Talaga
Raya”. The subject of this research are the first grade students of SMAN 1 Talaga Raya. The
object of this research is to find out whether or not the teacher’s effort in teaching English at
the first grade students of SMAN 1 Talaga Raya. The population of this research was all of
the students class X SMAN 1 Talaga Raya in academic year 2015/2016 with the total number
of population were 156 students. It consist of 6 classes. The sample of this research was the
first grade students of SMAN 1 Talaga Raya, because the total number of population were
156. So the sample in this research took 30 students. The technique of collecting data, the
researcher use observation, questionnaire, and interview. Based on result of the research, the
researcher found that the efforts of the teacher to increase the students’ interest in learning
English by opening the class with something unique. The teacher give the question about the
topic that will be studied through game or guessing the meant material. Why? Basically,
everyone likes playing game. By applying the suitable game, of course the students will be
comfortable in learning. In addition, the students will get the points of the material easily. For
example, in learning descriptive text, the teacher can describe the features or appearances of
something. At the end, the teacher ask them about what the thing that he/she meant. In the
middle of learning process, teacher can give the relaxation for the students even though only
for a few minutes. In this moment, the teacher can create something interesting. For example,
creating the funny things, and so on. In the last of learning process the teacher guided the
students to make lesson summary according to the lesson indicator. Then before going home
the teacher gave homework to the students which would be collected in the next meeting. In
addition the effort of teacher to increase students’ interest in learning English such as build a
harmonious relationship with the students and the teacher should use some method in teaching
learning process. The students interest were in high interest category which could be seen by
the numbers of students’ interest that there were 1 student got very high interest and 22
students got high interest. The suggestion of the research that to the teacher should use some
method in teaching learning process to make the teacher brought the material easier and also
the students were more easier for understanding the lesson and also the teacher should be
more creative in teaching learning process to increase the students interest and they would be
From the findings that have been given above, the researher concludes that there are
many method to make students’ interest in learning English, one of them is the teacher should
be more creative in teaching learning process like creating the funny things and insert the
game into learning process so the students will be interested in learning English.