Teacher’s apperception to enhance students’ interest in learning English at first year of SMPN 1 Wringinanom Gresik

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Ardillah, Anisa (2019) Teacher’s apperception to enhance students’ interest in learning English at first year of SMPN 1 Wringinanom Gresik. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Interest is one of factors that influences the successful of teaching and learning process. Interest comes from the students itself or from the environment that supports the students such as the teacher, materials and the activity. Therefore, to support the students to enhance their interest in learning English, the teacher tries to emphasize the apperception process at the beginning of learning. This research aimed to know how the teacher does apperception process in learning English and to find out whether the apperception can enhance the students’ interest in learning English at seventh grade of SMPN 1 Wringinanom Gresik. This study uses descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected through observation, interview and questionnaire. The participants of this study are an English teacher and the 32 first year students of C-class of SMPN 1 Wringinanom Gresik. The result of the study shows that the teacher used four stages of apperception: alpha zone, warmer, pre-teach and scene setting. First, the teacher used ice breaking, fun story and brain gym in alpha zone stage. Second, the teacher did questioning and self-assessment related to the previous materials in warmer stage. Third, the teacher always explains the steps in learning process to the students for the fluency of learning process namely pre-teach. And last, the scene setting was did through story, visualization, simulation and pantomime. Moreover, concerning the students’ interest enhancement in learning English through apperception, the result of questionnaire distribution to students shows that 53% of the students strongly agree, 33% of the students agree, 11% of the students disagree and the rest that amount to only 3% of the students strongly disagree with the statements on the questionnaire. It means that the majority of the students agree that positive apperception can enhance their interest in learning English.