Teacher Students Identification of the Problem

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1. Teacher

A teacher is the leader of the class. A good teacher can play hisher role well in the classroom and is able to manage the class and encourage the students to study well in the classroom. A teacher also guides the students to fulfill the objectives of the study. He or she also should be able to motivate the students, maintain the situation of the class, and monitor the students from the beginning to the end of the class. However, based on the observation, it could be seen that the English teacher could not arrange the activities well. The teacher only used whiteboard for teaching English especially speaking. The teacher only used whiteboard for writing the lesson and then explained it to the students. She also only used the English book for the exercise after explaining the materials. The activities that she brought to the class were less varied and the teacher often only explained the materials then asking some students about the explanation. She also sang a song for helping the students memorize the words but sometimes she made a mistake in pronouncing the words. She often corrected the students’ pronunciation, too. In the relation to the speaking activity, she did not give any speaking activitythat can make the students speak to others and apply the lesson they got.

2. Students

Ideally, the students should have strong curiosity over what they have learned. They should be active, attentive, and responsive towards the teaching and learning 6 processes. However, As the observation done over the matter at hand, it was shown that the students reluctantly engaged into the activities conducted by the teacher. The students had low motivation in learning English, especially in the speaking activities. Many students did not pay attention to the teachers’ explanation. While coming to the speaking activities, the students tent to be passive during the teaching and learning processes. The students who were active were limited to those who sat on the front rows. The students in the back rows were very noisy but when the teacher asked them to speak they became quiet and afraid of speaking. On the other hand, the students’ pronunciation was not very good. The researcher found out that the students are still unfamiliar with English sounds In line with the problems presented above, through the formal interview, the students said that they were afraid of making mistakes and felt less motivated to speak in the classroom. The students seldom communicated in English during the study period in the classrooms.

3. Learning Materials