The Influence of Teachers Personality Competence to Ward Students Interest on Learning Englisgh at Second Year Students of SMKN Taman Fajar Peureulak Kabupaten Aceh Timur

This study entitled The Influence of Teachers’ personality Competence Toward Students’ Interest in Learning English at Second Year Students of SMKN Taman Fajar Peureulak Kabupaten Aceh Timur".The objectives of this study are: (1) to find the factors that affect students’ interest in learning, and (2) to measure to what extend the teachers’ personality competence influences students’ interest in learning English as second language. Accordingly, the variables of the study are; teachers’ personality competence as independent variable (X), and the students’ interest in learning English as dependent variable (Y). The samples of the study were 57 students of the eleventh grade. The data were obtained by distributing questionnaires to the sample. The result of the study revealed that there was a low influence of teachers’ personality competence toward students’ interest in learning. The value of rxy table was higher than the counted one 0.354 > 0.049. As the suggestion, the teacher and the students must work hard each other to awaken the interest in learning English.