The Comparison of Student’s Interest in Learning English and Arabic Language

The thesis is entitled “ The Comparison of Student’s Interest in Learning English and Arabic Language”. This thesis was conducted to generate the research questions (1) what are the factors causing students interested more in learning English or Arabic Language? (2) Which language the student‟s interested more, English or Arabic Language? The aim of study are to figure out factors causing students are more interested in learning English or Arabic language. This research was executed at MtsS Darul Ulum and class II-3 as the sample of this study. The number of students is 36. To gain the needed data, the writer did some techniques, namely Observation, Interview and Questionnaire. The results of this thesis are the students generally are interested in learning English and Arabic language. From questionnaire, there are 31 students state that they are more interested in learning English and Arabic language. The percentage is 86%. Otherwise, there are 29 students state that they are more interested in learning Arabic than English language. The percentage is 81%. It can be summed up that the percentage of students who are interested in learning English language is higher than the percentage of the students who are interested in learning Arabic language. Thus, it means that the students of MtsS Darul Ulum are more interested in learning English language than Arabic language. There are some factors causing the students are more interested in learning English than Arabic; they can communicate with the foreigner, have opportunity to study abroad and get a job easier. Besides, English is the language widely spoken all over the world