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ABSTRACT Melisa Agustin, 2315099, “Students’ Perception Toward English Teacher Perfoemance in Teaching English at the Eight Grade in SMPN 6 Lubuk Basung” a thesis, State Islamic Institute of Bukittinggi, 2019 The research was due to several probelem found in field ; some of students have different perception toward teacher performance, Some of students said that the teacher less interesting in teaching process. But, other students said that the students like show teacher teach them. It was supported by the observation that researcher did, because the teacher just used small picture in teaching make students not focus to pay attention. The second problem was The students have different perception about core activity: some students said that the teacher good in teaching, when students not understand with the material, teacher try to explain the material until students more understand. But, other students said that the teacher didn’t care are the students understand or not. It was supported by the observation that researcher did. Then, there was positive and negative students perception related to the English teacher performance. The design of this research was descriptive quanitative as the method of the research. the sample was collected from 86 students at SMPN 6 Lubuk Basung which use sample total sampling as the technique sampling of the research. Additionally, the analyzing of the data wa done by identifying the students’ responded, analyzing the data, and making conclusion. The resulth showed that the percentage of score students’ perception in teaching performance in preliminary activity aspect is 79. It means that students had positive perception in good category. Besides, the percentage score of students’ perception in core activity is 77 it means that the students had positive perception in good category. In addition, the third aspect of performance is closing activity, students had positive perception with score 74, it means the students perception in closing activity was enough category. Keyword ; Perception, English Teacher Performance