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NINDA AFRILA, Reg. NO. 21 301 040 46 entitled: “STUDENTS' PERCEPTION ON THE USE OF TEAMS GAME TOURNAMENT (TGT) BY PRE-SERVICE TEACHER IN TEACHING ENGLISH AT SMA N 02 PADANG PANJANG”, English Teaching Department, Faculty of Tarbiyah and teacher Training. State Islamic University (UIN) Mahmud Yunus Batusangkar. The problem of this research based on the differences in students’ perception on the Use of Teams Game Tournament (TGT) by pre-service teacher in teaching English at SMA N 02 Padang Panjang. This research aims to describe students' perceptions on Use of Teams Game Tournament (TGT) By Pre-Service Teacher in Teaching English at SMA N 02 Padang Panjang registered 2024/2025 academic year. Type of this research was quantitative research, descriptive design. The Population of this research were eleven grade senior high school students at SMA N 02 Padang Panjang, and the sample were the students of XIF3 totaling 32 students. Respondents in this research were taken using the total sampling technique, because the number of respondents was less than 100 people (Sugiyono, 2013). Data collection in this research was carried out by distributing closed-ended questionnaires with five Likert scale. The instrument used to obtain data is based on a questionnaire grid about the advantages of Teams Game Tournament according to several experts Susanna (2018); Shohimin (2014) in Anggraini (2017); Slavin (2008;3) cited in Putra (2016) and Nofriansyah et al., (2024). and component of perception according to Walgito as cited in Lele (2019), totals 50 statement items. The questionnaire had previously been validated by 3 validators with the results of the validation test of this instrument in general being 0.80 (Very High Validity). After that, the questionnaire was distributed with Google form by the researcher. The result of data from respondents was analyzed according to analysis descriptive theory Sugiyono (2013), using descriptive quantitative by using software and interpreted the category of perception based on Fitri (2016). The results of this research showed that that the mean score of students perception on the use of Teams Game Tournament (TGT) learning model by pre-service teacher in teaching English at SMAN 02 Padang Panjang was 204.25 which categorized as strongly positive perception. This strongly positive perception appeared in all components of perception, including cognitive component with mean score was 138.93, affective component with mean score was 41.43 and conative components with mean score was 40.5.