Detail Cantuman  |  UPT. PERPUSTAKAAN UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh

ABSTRACT
Most of the schools with English as one of the subjects improved various methods to create the good teaching English atmosphere and make the teaching learning process more interesting and fun. The thesis untitled “THE USE OF QUANTUM TEACHING IN TEACHING ENGLISH” (An experimental teaching in Al-Manar Islamic Boarding School Aceh Besar) was inspired by the English teaching learning process in Al-Manar that sometimes tend to be boring and not interesting. Moreover, the students’ condition especially students of junior high school that sometimes have less motivation in studying will influence their mastery and achievement in learning English. This thesis aimed to find out whether the English teaching learning process can be more interesting through the Quantum Teaching and the use of Quantum Teaching can improve students’ motivation, interest and mastery in learning English. The thesis mainly focused on reading comprehension subject on second grade student of junior high school in which reading is one of the provided subjects in their class that is suitable to be experimented with the Quantum Teaching. After doing the research in experimental class, the writer verified that Quantum Teaching is able to create more interesting English teaching learning process and it helps students to improve their motivation and mastery in learning English especially on reading subject. It is proven by the result of the pre-test and post-test. It indicates that teaching recount text by turning music; t-test>t-table which 8,839>2,46, and the teaching descriptive text by learning outside classroom; t-test>t-table which 7,905>2,46 which means the result of this study is higher than that of t-table. The result is also supported by the questionnaires that strengthened the hypothesis. As a result, Quantum Teaching can increase students’ interest in studying English, create an interesting learning process and improve students’ mastery of learning English.