Students’ perception about warming up in English learning process to improve students’ skills: the case of eighth-grade students at MTs Nurul Islam Pongangan Gresik

Warming up is a simple activity at the beginning of a meeting with students. Starting a class with a warming up activity should promote interest students, set a friendly environment, increase students’ participation, and also attract students’ attention. In another word, giving warming up could create students’ spirit and motivation to join English learning. In this research, the researcher used collaborative games and competitive games as warming up. The purpose of this study is to explain how the students’ perception of giving warming up in the English learning process to improve students’ skills in English. This research used qualitative descriptive and quantitative. To collect the data, the researchers used the interview to five students in eighth-grade students at Mts Nurul Islam Pongangan Gresik and also the researcher used literature study and shared questionnaires. This result showed that 71, 875% of students like learning English, although they have a problem in understanding English: speaking, writing, and fewer memories vocabulary. From the data can be said that some of the students in eight A-class interested to learn English.