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A. Introduction

A Global village is a present area of nowadays. Most of places in the world are connected. Due to communicate with different country people, they need to decide one language that they will use in an international conversation. English as the language that people use in the global village is the most important requirement in the global village. In the context where English is not spoken in everyday communication, teaching English seems to have many difficulties. The teachers might need to understand teaching difficulties in their school. The teaching difficulties have various types in every place. From my experience as a student teacher, teaching English in a senior high school in Indonesia, many teaching difficulties that I observed and experienced: To understand different background students, learning the teaching strategies to deal with different students’ background, and learning the strategies to motivate students and so on. From that, I learned that teaching is not an easy job. Therefore, I found it interesting to learn more from the teacher regarding their perception on teaching and how they deal with teaching difficulties in their context. According to West 1968, p. 10 “Teaching is an activity that tries to help someone to acquire, change or develop skills, attitudes, ideas, appreciations, and knowledge.” It shows that teaching is the factor that facilitates the students. Moreover, the students also need to feel that they want to study English. Increasing students’ 2 motivation to study English is the duty of the English teachers. To support this statement, Henry 1989, p.138 indicate s that “learning is the process by which an activityoriginated or changed through training procedure whether in the laboratory or in the natural environment.” It means that the teachers need to provide great classroom environments that facilitate learning, where according to Buikema and Graves 1993, p. 451 “learning is a process of change of behavior by the experiences and practices.” It shows that the teachers must know how to make interesting activities to manage not only the students who have already higher English competences but also the students who have lower English competences. Through interesting activities such as team game, teachers might expect that students might help each other to understand English. Through this research I would l ike to find out the teachers’ perception, with the following research question that, “what are teachers’ perceptions on difficulties in teaching English in Satya Wacana Christian Junior high school?” The purpose of this research was to describe the difficulties faced by the English teacher during English teaching in Satya Wacana Christian Junior high school. The finding of this research might increase teacher’s awareness with these difficulties during English lessons. Not only for the teachers but also the students. They might have the benefits if their teachers know the difficulties that frequently appeared in the classroom and the suggestion how to teach the students by good 3 quality teaching. Furthermore, this research can provide information to the beginner teacher researchers who need to understand teaching difficulties in Satya Wacana Christian Junior high school.

B. Literature review