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.
