AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS' INTEREST IN ENGLISH LEARNING OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1 MUARO JAMBI

This study aims to find out the students’ interest of tenth grade at SMA 1 Muaro Jambi in learning English and also to know the factors that affect students' interest in learning English. The design of this study is descriptive qualitative which describes the students’ interest in learning English of tenth grade SMA 1 Muaro Jambi and the factors that influence students' interest in learning English. The techniques used to collect data are observations and interviews with the subjects of grade X students of SMA 1 Muaro Jambi. The result of this study is that the students tenth grade SMA 1 Muaro Jambi are less interested in learning English this conclusion is seen that the interest of students does not include for all indicators if someone is interested in something such as having a deep interest, encouraged to prepare more for something, have a great desire and curiosity and happy in doing it. Then the factors that affect it are: 1. Internal factors: health, readiness, attention and intelligence. 2. External factors: family, teachers, school facilities and classmates. Suggestions for future researchers, hopefully this research can become a reference for future researchers who are interested in raising the same theme, and so that further researchers can study more about this theme