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years old. Young learners are active, emotional, and thinkers. They like play, run, and walk around. They have good expressions to show what their feeling, such as
are anger, frustration, and boredom.
b. Young Learners in Language Classroom
Piaget 1970 says that young learners are actively constructing his or her own thinking by acting upon the physical and social environment. Young learners
learning strategies are influenced by their physical and their environment. Accordingly, it will be difficult to teach young learners if they are not ready yet to
learn Anning, 1991. In learning language, young learners respond the language well through
concrete things visual things rather than abstract things. They need physical movements and real activities to stimulate their thinking.
They will be enthusiastic if they are taught using fun activities or being involved in activities and they like
to work together. They love to play, and the best learning is when they are enjoying themselves.
Besides, in learning language will be found young learners who tend not to sit still, get bored quickly, like to destroy things around them, often produce rude
words, and show disrespect. Those are examples of misbehavior. According to Charles 2005, misbehavior is behavior that is inappropriate for the setting or
situation in the process of teaching and learning in the classroom. Thus, young leaners who like to destroy things around them or produce words can be
considered as showing or conducting misbehaviors.
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B. Theoretical Framework
The objectives to be achieved in this study, as stated in chapter I, are to describe the students’ misbehaviors which commonly happen in English
classroom, to analyze the situations of classroom around which the misbehaviors happen, and to identify the strategies of the teacher to handle those behaviors. In
order to address the research problems, this study implements three major theories, namely, the theories on classroom management, classroom
misbehaviors, and young learners. Young learners are the students who are in the age six to twelve years old.
They are in Elementary School Suyanto, 2007; Teresa Jeanne, 2010. While Piaget 1970 says that young learners are actively constructing their own thinking
by acting upon the physical and social environments. Young learners’ learning strategies are influenced by their physical and their environments.
Furthermore, in answering the first research problem, namely, what the young learners’ misbehaviors that happen in English classroom are, the
researcher will use the theories of type of misbehavior in the classroom. The researcher needs to know the types of misbehavior in the English classroom.
Therefore, the researcher implements the theory of types of misbehaviors which have been modified by Scientific World Journal 2012.
Then, for the second research problem namely, how the situations of classroom around which the misbehaviors happen are
, the researcher uses the theories of common classroom management areas. The theories are proposed by
