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the class. Even the students with introvert personalities were too afraid to come in front of the class and to answer my question. When I
approached their desks to check their works, they would be shy and close their books. These problems made their development in learning
English run slowly.
2. The external problems
a. Lack of Facilities
English teaching and learning activity in SD Madegondo 03 could not run well because of the incomplete facilities problems. There were
no language laboratory, tape recorder including its cassette, and educational tools such as: flash cards, pictures, songs and games that
could support teaching and learning activities in the class. Listening activity was never done because there were no tools to do it and the
teacher did not want to do it. The students learned English just from the hand books with black
and white colors because there were no materials from the other sources. It made me feel difficult to teach ‘colors’ because the students
could not find the real color. There were only black balls with two words on it, the Indonesian and the English. I thought that the hand
books could not help the students learn effectively. This condition was compounded by the inexistence English books
in the library. Actually, the library was a new building in the school
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but the books were old, obsolete, damaged, and uninteresting. The students came to the library just to play hide and seek, not to read
books. Whereas, reading habit should be embedded to the students in order to improve their knowledge.
The other equipments that could support English teaching and learning were games, songs, flash cards and pictures. I could not find
those teacher’s aids in SD Madegondo 03. I saw that this school did not ask any school fee to their students because this school got school
operational grants BOS from the government that helped the activities in this school run appropriately. Unfortunately, this fund was
not used to equip the school facilities, especially to buy teaching aids required to teach English.
b. Problems related to the Teacher’s skill
In every teaching and learning activity, a teacher has an important role to control the activity done by the students in the class. Either the
teacher or the books are the main source of knowledge that can be used to transfer knowledge to each student. The teacher, having a lot of
knowledge and good methods in transferring that knowledge to the students, will give good impact in students’ success. On the other
hand, the teacher with less knowledge and less motivation to teach will give bad impact to their students.
The English teacher of SDN Madegondo 03 was graduated from
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Senior High School. But now, she is studying in UNIVET University, Sukoharjo. Therefore, she did not have enough English knowledge to
teach her students. This condition made the students had problems with spelling and pronunciation. I had observed the English teacher
when she was teaching the fourth grade students. I found that she did some mistakes in spelling and pronouncing English words. She used
Javanese language in explaining material and never spoke in English. Her vocabularies were limited that made her students think that she did
not master the material. The other problems were unvaried teaching techniques. The
English teacher just sat on her desk and read the hand book to explain the material. She would stand when she wanted to write something on
the blackboard. She presented material in 5-10 minutes. After that, she asked the students to do some tasks. Then, she began to do her own
business and did not care about her class room’s condition. Most of the students ran, shouted, went outside the class room, and made some
noises. I found that most of the teachers in this school did it. They gave little explanation and then went to the teacher’s room to chat with the
other teachers. I thought that those were the reasons why the students of SDN Madegondo 03 did not respect to their teachers and the older
persons. I also found that the English teacher gave bad influences to the
students. She often expressed impolite words or sentences that should
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not be heard by children. That is why some students expressed those bad words without any regretting.
c. Unsupported environment
