THE INFLUENCE OF TEACHER’S CREATIVITY IN STUDENTS’ INTEREST TP LEARN ENGLISH AT THE EIGHTH GRADE OF SMP N 6 PURWOREJO IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014

Abstract

Language is important thing in our lives. It is used to convey message to other people, without language people will find it difficult to communicate and express their ideas, their feeling, their acceptation to others, their thought, and their wishes. Language is divided into national language and international language. For Indonesian, Indonesia language is national language and English  is a foreign language. English is included in difficult subject therefore the teachers must be creative. The teacher is a figure of inspiration and motivator for the students to get their future. The creativity of the teachers is needed to make the students interest to study. The teacher’s creativity in making students interest to the subject is very important. The student’s interest also plays important rule in the process of learning. The student’s interest will give more motivation to themselves to study. The objective of the study of this research to describe the influence of teacher’s creativity in students’s to learn English at the eighth grade of SMP N 6 Purworejo in the academic year of 2013-2014.

This research is descriptive research with quantitative approach. In describing a condition done by words based on existing data. In collecting data, the researcher uses observation and questionnaires. After describing the analysis in the previous section, the researcher will discuss more about the interpretation of the influence of teacher’s creativity in students’ interest.

In this research the result of the computation of the t-value is 5.627. To know whether the hypothesis is accepted or rejected, the t-value is consulted to the t-tableand the 5% significance level as usually used in psychological and educational research. The t-table is attended in the appendix. The number of the subject in this research is 31, with the degree of freedom (df) is 30. The degree of freedom can be found the formula n-1. For 5% significance level and 30 degree of freedom, the critical value on the t-table is 1.697. It shows that the t-value  is higher than t-table, 5.627>1.697. Thus, the null hypothesis (Ho) is rejected and alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted. Therefore, the hypothesis that there are any influences of teacher’s creativity on students’ interest to learn English at the eighth grade of SMP N 6 Purworejo in the academic year 2013/2014 is accepted.

Keywords       :  Influence, Teacher’s creativity, Students Interest