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THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ INTEREST IN PLAYING PLANTS VS. ZOMBIES AND THEIR ABILITY IN UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH INSTRUCTIONS AT MTS NEGERI 3 KEDIRI

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One can acquire other language more than mother tongue, that is called the
second language. Interest is the intrinsic factor of second language. The way the
students understand second language is when the students‟ playing a game. Plants
vs. Zombies is famous game with many instructions for each part of the game.

This study focuses on the correlation between students‟ interest in Playing
Plants vs. Zombies and their ability in understanding English instructions at MTs
Negeri 3 Kediri. Plants vs. Zombies is virtual world game and categorize in
simulation game, while the instruction join in there.

There are 190 samples from eighth grade students from MTs Negeri 3
Kediri. Its are taken from those who like to play Plants vs. Zombies only. They
answered 20 items questionnaire of students‟ interest and 20 items test of English
instructions. The result of the questionnaire shows that the students level of
interest in playing Plants vs. Zombies is average since the mean of all scores are
78.26. From the test, the result shows that students level in understanding English
instructions is average with the mean is 72.71.

Then, by using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Formula SPSS ver.
21.00 for windows, it can be seen that there is an average correlation between
students‟ interest in playing Plants vs. Zombies and their ability in understanding
English instructions with the rxy 0.567 or 56.7 %. It means that there is a positive
significant correlation between students‟ interest in playing Plants vs. Zombies
and students‟ ability in understanding English instructions in the level of medium.
It means when the more students‟ interest in playing Plants vs. Zombies give, the
higher students‟ ability in understanding English instructions.

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Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

KS TBI-18 063

Penerbit

Kediri : IAIN Kediri., 2018

Deskripsi Fisik

xvi, 68 hlm., 29 cm.

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

932207514

Klasifikasi

KS TBI-18

Tipe Isi

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

Ed. 1, cet. 1

Subjek

english instruction
Interest
Virtual world
Plants vs. Zombie Games

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