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

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.


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 interested in learning something, it will not work well, but if someone has an interest in the object of the problem then 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. It means that, interest is a tendency to pay attention and remember some activity.
Students who have an interest will pay attention and feel enjoy to something and get satisfaction from that. 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.
Thus, interest in learning is a crucial factor in the success of student learning. In addition, learning interests can also support and influence the learning process in schools, especially in learning English.   In the table which states that 0% of the students' answer (SS) strongly agree, 31% of the students answer (S) Agree, 31% of the students answer (TS) disagree, and 38% answer (STS) strongly disagree.  Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020) p-ISSN: 2085-1383e-ISSN: 2621-4156 which states that 13% of the students answer (SS) strongly agree, 25% of the students answer (S) Agree, 50 % of the students answer (TS) disagree, and 12% answer (STS) strongly disagree. And it can be concluded that in the class students are lazy to think when the teacher give a task.
Based on the table 4.11above about the statement "The assignments given by the teacher made me more interested in learning English" we can see that all of the students in the class always pay attention to the teacher when the teacher explain the subject matter, this is proven by the answers of respondents. In the table which states that 63% of the students answer (SS) strongly agree, 31% of the students answer (S) Agree 3% of the students answer (TS) disagree, and 3% answer (STS) strongly disagree.
Based on the table 4.12 above about the statement "I am very active in group discussion" we can see that most students of the class are not active when discussing groups, this is proven by the answers of respondents, the results of respondents answer is more students answered disagree with the statement. In the table which states that 0% of the students' answer (SS) strongly agree, 44% of the students answer (S) Agree, 44% of the students answer (TS) disagree, and 12% answer (STS) strongly disagree. In the table which states that 16% of the students answer (SS) strongly agree, 31% of the students answer (S) Agree, 22% of the students answer (TS) disagree, and 31% answer (STS) strongly disagree. Based on the results of the questionnaire, all of the respondents answer showed the percentage value below the average, it means the results of the questionnaire also showed students interest in learning English which is very low, which is evident from the indicators of students' interest in learning that are seen of the 4 aspects, namely the feeling good of students', the students' attractive, the students' attention, and the students' involvement in learning English is still need to be improved again.

CONCLUSION
Based on the explanation in the previous chapters, here the writer wants to give some conclusions of the contain of this research, it is hoped that the readers will be able to know much about this research easily, the conclusion such as below: This research is conducted at the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Sukodadi. Based on the research finding and discussion in chapter IV. The students' interest in learning English in the eleventh grade of social 2 of SMA Negeri 1 Sukodadi. In this study, the writer found that the interest of the student class Xi IPS more attention and need to be increased again, most of the students know that English lessons are important and have a lot of benefits. But, they were not interested in learning English, lack of feeling happy and always feel bored when taking English lesson, some factors that caused students do not interest to learn English were mostly from learning methods that were too monotonous. This really needs to be noticed and developed again by the English teacher so that students' interest in learning can increase.