A Comparative Study on Students' Interest in Learning Foreign Language: English and Arabic

Abstract

Researcher : Azka Fikriyah Reg. Number : 10256119006 Title : A Comparative Study on Students' Interest in Learning Foreign Language: English and Arabic One of the phenomena that occurs among students attending Islamic education is the difference in students' interest in foreign languages, namely Arabic and English. In general, these two languages are important languages to master as universal languages. There are different opinions about the reasons for the comparison of students' interest in foreign languages: Arabic and English. This also happened to students at Madrasah Aliyah (MA) Miftahul Jihad Tande. Therefore, researcher conducted this research to examine the comparison and causes of the comparison of students' interest in learning English and Arabic at MA Miftahul Jihad Tande. In this research, researcher used questionnaires and interview guides as research instruments. In this research, researcher found that there was a comparison of students' learning interest in English and Arabic. The research results showed that there were 5 students who were strongly interested in Arabic and 2 students were strongly interested in English. In the interested category there are 25 students for Arabic and 25 students for English. In the moderately interested category there are 5 students for English and 2 students for Arabic. Researcher also found that there were 4 factors were causing the comparison of students' interest in learning, namely: (1) interest in learning, (2) attention to learning, (3) motivation to learn, and (4) knowledge. Through this research, researcher hope that teachers can provide foreign language learning to students and students can learn foreign languages according to their interests so that students' foreign language mastery can be more optimal. Keywords: Comparative, Interest, English, Arabic Salah satu fenomena yang terjadi di kalangan pelajar yang mengikuti pendidikan Islam adalah adanya perbedaan minat pelajar terhadap bahasa asing yaitu bahasa Arab dan bahasa Inggris. Padahal secara umum kedua bahasa ini merupakan bahasa yang penting untuk dikuasai sebagai bahasa universal. Terdapat perbedaan pendapat mengenai alasan perbandingan minat siswa terhadap bahasa asing: Arab dan Inggris. Hal serupa juga terjadi pada siswa Madrasah Aliyah (MA) Miftahul Jihad Tande. Oleh karena itu, peneliti melakukan penelitian ini untuk mengkaji perbandingan dan penyebab perbandingan minat siswa dalam belajar bahasa Inggris dan bahasa Arab di MA Miftahul Jihad Tande. Dalam penelitian ini, peneliti menggunakan kuesioner dan pedoman wawancara sebagai instrumen penelitian. Dalam penelitian ini peneliti menemukan adanya perbandingan minat belajar siswa terhadap bahasa Inggris xii