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answer with complete sentences from number one to ten” nonetheless the instruction was delivered when the students were busy open the question sheet and read the questions listed. Some of them were talking. As a result, it was found that all of them answered the questions in a short answer, they just wrote the answer directly. Another similar problem happened in Miss I class, she instructed the students to spell their peer name after they have finished by saying :”If you have finished spell your name, please spell your peer name also” however, the instruction was directed when the students were busy practicing the conversation which have not finished yet. The teacher gave the instruction without gaining the students attention first, as the result only little students who spell their peer name. CONCLUSION The writer chose to analyze about the problem in giving instruction for Elementary student was because young learner have short attention span, they can easily get bored after 5-10 minutes which make them lose their attention and interest easily. Harmer, J, 2007. That is why the role of a teacher is important to them. They see teacher as a model in class. In other words, primary age children learn through oral language, they are capable of developing good oral skills, pronounciation, and intonation when they have a good model Piaget, 2009. So, the teacher have to give a clear instruction, so the students know what is expected from them and it also enables the teacher to check whether the student’s performance is appropriate for the classroom situation Maria Debat, 2003. However, there are some common problems that can happen when teachers give instructions, for example : selection of appropriate language, formulating and organizing effective classroom instructions, and not checking students understanding. Based on the problems stated above, the writer wanted to find out if they occurred in the real context of teaching learning process. In order to fulfill that purpose, the writer formulate a research question, “What problems happened in giving instructions for Elementary Students of Bethany School?” In the discussion about teachers delivery method, the writer found out three main problems encountered by the teachers in delivering the instructions. The first problem was complex long instructions. The writer found out that teachers tended to give long instructions with complex structure which made students confused and didn’t know what to do. The second problem was inappropriate word choices. In this part, teachers often used difficult vocabularies which couldn’t be understood by very young learner. As a result, teachers had to repeat the instructions, so the students could understand it. In the last problem which was not checking students understanding, teachers only stated what they expected from the students to do and didn’t check whether they did it properly or not, so the students didn’t pay attention it and only joking or mumbling. Furthermore, from the observation and interview conducted, the writer discovered some other instructional problems faced by the teacher that did not listed in chapter 2, such as : giving instructions before gaining students’ attention. The teacher have to look around the class to check whether all of the students have ready to listen to the instruction given or not. She couldn’t start the instruction before gaining all of students’ attention, because it will be hard for young learner to follow the whole instruction later. Moreover, the writer also found out that students were also the problem for teachers to give instructions properly in the class. The first problem was lack of listening skill, students limited vocabulary because they were still young learner gave teachers difficulties in explaining the instructions to the students. The second problem was student’s misbehave while teacher gave instructions. Students could easily be distracted by many things around them while the teachers gave instructions. It can be their friends or stuffs. That was why