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Clustering Direct Instruction
1. Students centered
1. Teacher centered 2.
Active thinking 2. Guided thinking
3. More independent
3. Dependent 4.
Better understand prior knowledge
knowledge 5.
More communicative 5. Less communicative
E. Interest
1. The Definition Interest
An interest can be expressed through a statement that indicates the students prefer a case of the other things. Students who have an interest in
certain subjects tend to give greater attention to the subject. Interest also has a major influence on learning, because if the teaching materials are not in
accordance with student interests, students will not learn well. Teaching materials that draw students will be better understood and stored and
increase their interest in learning. There are many definition of interest. Many expert present the
definition of interest that differ from one to another but their ideas complete each other. According to Crow and Crow 1973: 159 the word interest may
be used to refer to motivating force which causes individual to give attention to a person, a thing, or an activity. Marshefel 1969: 73 states that
interest is something that impels or motivates the learners to strive for a particular goal. Also Hurlock 1956: 403 says that interest means a learned
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motive which drives the person to occupy himherself with an activity when heshe is free to choose what he will do. Interest is freely choosing activity,
which hold the attention and is a source of satisfaction and pleasure.
that you enjoy doing or a subject that you enjoy studying Slame
will do something when heshe has interest on it without any coercion of others. For the students,
interest has important role to increase their learning motivation effectively. The Liang Gie 1987:20 says that interest besides allowing the
concentration of the mind, will also cause excitement in learning. Cheerfulness will enlarge the persons ability to learn and also help students
not easy to forget what he learned it. Learning by unhappy feeling would make the lesson was very heavy.
Slameto 2010: 180 rasa ketertarikan pada suatu hal atau aktifitas, tanpa ada yang menyuruh.
Minat pada dasarnya adalah penerimaan akan suatu hubungan antara diri sendiri dengan sesuatu diluar diri. Semakin kuat atau dekat hubungan
It means that person do everything depend on their interest. Students will learn something when they have interest to do it. So the teacher should
make how the lesson is interest to the student.
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Based on the definition above, it can conclude that interest is an activity that a person done happily to get the goalwillingness. Because
heshe done by himherself without any coercion of others. Richard. I. Arends 2007: 157 writes that a teacher can do a number
of thi a.
such as popular music, and relate these interest to topics under study. b.
s name helps personalize learning
c. Make materials vivid and novel. A teacher can say things that make the
ordinary vivid and novel for students. Using games, puzzle and other activities that are inviting and carry
their own intrinsic motivation is another way teacher make lesson interesting for students. Similarly, using a variety of activities field trips,
simulations, music, and guest speaker, instructional methods lecture, terested in school and their
schoolwork.
2. Kind of Interest
