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D. Explanation
During the job training, I found some problems faced by the students of SDN Madegondo 03 in learning English. Those problems include the problems
coming from the internal and the external of the students.
1. The internal problems
a. Less Motivation
Most students of SDN Madegondo 03 did not have great motivation to study, especially to learn English. They had an
assumption that they were villagers that could not learn English well. I saw that their vocabularies were limited; their abilities to pronounce
English words were less than good, their writing skill needed to be improved, and their willingness to read books were inferior.
They had those kinds of problems because of some factors causing it. First, they thought that English was the most difficult lesson to be
learned. They thought that it was impossible for them to acquire English. Therefore, they did not do the best for their study. Second,
their teacher did not give them interesting material or attracted activity in the class. They told me that their teacher just gave material and task
from the hand book and never did fun activity in the class. She often asked them to study in serious way that made them less motivated in
study. Third, their parents and teacher did not ask them to learn English seriously. That is why some of them felt lazy to follow and to
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do the activity in the class. Therefore, they found difficult to memorize English words because
there was no willingness to learn English. They learned because they were forced to learn. Consequently, their learning outcomes were not
maximal.
b. Less Discipline
Some of the students of SD Madegondo 03 were undisciplined. They often forgot to do their home works and to bring their English
books. Some of them also came late to the school. They always had reasons for their undisciplined behavior. Some students used to do
their home works in the classroom before the teacher started the teaching and learning activity. It means that most of them rarely
studied the material that would be taught by their teacher on the next day.
Those bad behaviors had become bad habit that was difficult to be changed. They said that their teachers did not care about it. Thus, they
often did this negative habit. Despite the undisciplined problems, they also had a problem
related to the inappropriate behavior in the class. When they felt lazy to do the task, they would not do it. They just chatted or played games
with their friends. They did not care what I did, as their English teacher and what I asked to them to do. Some of them were hyperactive
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students that could not control their attitude in the class, such as taking a walk or running in the classroom, teasing each other, saying negative
words, etc. This condition made this class the noisiest classroom in SDN Madegondo 03.
Everyday, I hear their classroom teacher shouts or beats the table with wooden eraser. It was aimed to make them to be quiet. When
they thought that a task was too difficult, they would copy their friend’s work. They also did it when they had an examination, even
some of them cheated with their own ways, such as took the book in the drawer and wrote some notes on a paper, table and on their hands
c. Lack of Self-ability and Confidence
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