Inti Wigati , 2201415025 (2019) ATTITUDES TOWARDS LEARNING ENGLISH: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RURAL AND URBAN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

This study is about a comparison between rural and urban students‟ attitudes in learning English as a foreign language. The aim of this study is to describe students‟ attitudes in rural and urban schools towards learning English and to explain the similarities and differences in attitudes between rural and urban students. The data of this study were taken from classroom observations, questionnaires, and focus group interviews. The reserach participants are the VIII C students at SMP N 41 Semarang, considered as rural students; and the VIII E students at SMP N 30 Semarang, considered as urban students. To get rich data, the researcher distributed attitudinal questionnaires in both classes. In addition, in order to triangulate the data, the researcher also conducted focus group interviews with the students. The findings show that both rural and urban students had liking and disliking attitudes in learning English. Liking attitudes covered two aspects including enjoyment and pride in learning English. Meanwhile, disliking attitudes contained two aspects, boredom and anxiety in learning English. There were differences in percentages of children between rural and urban students in every aspect. In enjoyment, there are 50% of 32 rural students who enjoyed in learning English. While, in urban school, there were 62.5% of students who enjoyed in learning English. This difference is also found in other aspects of liking attitudes, namely pride in learning English. 93% of rural students were proud of learning English while urban students, only 87.5% were proud of learning English. This difference also occurred in the disliking attitudes. 72% rural students stated that they often felt bored in learning English. However, the percentage of boredom in learning English from urban students was higher reaching 81.25%. Despite the difference of 3%, there were differences in the number of students who felt anxious in learning English between rural and urban students. There were 72% for rural students and 75% for urban students who argued that they were often felt anxious in learning English. Those attitudes were affected by some factors including peers‟ influence, factors related to teachers, teacher quality, and teaching styles and materials

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