THE INFLUENCE OF STUDENTS’ INTEREST IN USING WORD SCRAMBLE ON STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN LEARNING ENGLISH AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN SMP 3 NEGERI PALIMANAN

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SISKA FISANTY, 2012 :”THE INFLUENCE OF STUDENTS’ INTEREST IN USING WORD SCRAMBLE ON STUDENTS’ COMPETENCE IN LEARNING ENGLISH AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SMP NEGERI 3 PALIMANAN.” Language as a tool of human to communicate in order to have the real interaction to one another, and this also be the clear unique things of human’s strength they owned which it make them more special and different from the other creators in this world especially with animals. People may be learning English because of some external reasons or extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation; Some students may not be motivated perhaps interested, but because in this case learning English is extraordinarily needed so they have to learn it. The methods offer teachers alternatives to what their currently think and do. It does not necessarily follow that the teachers will choose to modify their current practice. The point is that they will have understanding to do so, if they are able to and want to. The students of the eighth grade of SMP Negeri 3 Palimanan, as a matter of fact, have not too interest in learning English so long. That is why, it can be understandable if they are greatly bored then get difficulties in learning English not only seen from the point of how they were in learning English, also their bad response to have an interest in learning it. The aims of the research in writing this thesis are; to find out the students’ interest in using word scramble, to find out the students’ competences in learning English through word scramble, and to find out the positive and significant influences of students’ interest in using word scramble on students’ competence in learning English. The method of the research is quantitative. It means that the data which is obtained from the field of research then analyzed statistically by means of number by using the Pearsons’ product moment formulation. Then, the techniques of collecting data are; observation, interview, test and questionnaire. From all the data calculations above, it shows that the result of the students’ interest in using Word Scramble which it obtained from the list of questionnaire that has given to 36 students is 74.6, which means as “good.” And for the result of the students’ competence in learning English after using Word Scramble is 74.3. which categorized as “good.” Next, to the level value of X and Y variable gets 53.29%. It means that it has positive and significant correlation between using Word Scramble on the students’ interest in learning English at the eighth grade of students in SMP Negeri 3 Palimanan.