Language Attitude of Junior High School Students Towards English Language

Abstract

The title of this research is “Language Attitude of Junior High School Students Towards English Language”. This research has done in order to know the language attitude of students in three components of attitude. This research conducted at Junior High School Islamic Al Ulum Terpadu Medan. The data source was students grade VIII consist of 4 classes. This research had 56 students as the respondents. The method of this research in getting the data was field research using the observation, questionnaires and interview techniques. The observation has done in the classroom activities and the researcher gave questionnaire that consisted of 30 statements of language attitude. Then the researcher conducted interview to some of students. After getting the data from the observation, questionnaire and interview the researcher analyzed the data using qualitative descriptive method and the researcher used likert scale and simple percentages. The result of the research was showed that the respondents tend to have positive attitude towards English language. They know the importance of English in globalization era, they learned English proudly and keep do an effort to use English in the calss to their teacher and friends but some of them stated English is difficult and complicated to be learn and they tend to use un grammartically. From the resulting interpretation of likert scale was 3.83 it showed in categorized Agree. The score showed that the averaged total of students at Junior High School Islamic Al Ulum Terpadu Medan in grade VIII was Agree. The conclusions were the attitude of the students towards English language is tend to positive attitude. This result and conclusion is the real result of this research, which it was obtained from the data source itself.