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example: the activity should include movement, practice pronouncing words by singing songs and telling stories, learn vocabulary from pictures and games, etc
Scott Ytreberg, 1990 In conclusion, young learners are ready to learn new skills although they
learn slowly than adults, forget things quickly and get bored easilyBrewster, Ellis Girard, 2002 but they are easier to be motivated to study. It depends on their
learning style and the support from their teacher to find out the best methods to teach them.
C. Some Problems in Teaching and Learning
A problem is goal-response interference. We need or want to achieve or have something, and we cannot do it Cruickshank, Bainer Metcalf, 1999.
Everyone has problems. When a problem arises, there are two possibilities that may happen. First, when we struggle to face and solve the problem, then we will
be stronger and better person. Second, when we give up and do not want to solve the problem, it means that we do not want to receive any progress in our lives.
Foreign language taught in the school also has some difficulties to be learned. The difficulties cause some problems that will affect the teaching and
learning activity. The problems usually come from the teacher, the learners and the environment.
These are the problems faced by teacher existing from the teacher himself, the students, and the environment:
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1.
Affiliation. It is defined as the teacher’s need to establish and maintain
good relationships with others in school. 2.
Control. It is the teacher need to have students behave well or
appropriately. 3.
Parents relationships and home conditions. Teachers recognize the
important role parents and significant others play in the lives of students. Therefore, they want to maintain constructive relationships with them.
4.
Student success. It is defined as the need teachers have to help learners
achieve both academically and socially. 5.
Time. Teachers do not have enough time to do personal tasks because of
the amount of work they must take home Cruickshank, Banner Metcalf, 1999.
It means that teachers may have many problems in school. The problems may rise when the teachers explain material, plan curriculum, manage classroom,
build a relation with the students’ parents, etc.
Other problems are the problems related to the students ’ inappropriate
behaviors in the classroom. Ur, in her book „
A Course in Language
‟ states those problems;
1.
Discipline. ‘I have discipline problems in these classes; I find them difficult
to control’
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2.
Correcting written assignments. ‘I can’t keep up with the marking load’
3.
Interest. ‘They get bored: I can’t find topics and activities that keep them
all in terested’
4.
Effective learning for all. ‘I can’t make sure they’re all learning
effectively; the tasks I provide are either too difficult or too easy for many of them’
5.
Materials. ‘I can’t find suitable material. The textbooks are homogeneous’-
rigidly aimed at one kind of learners with no options of flexibility’
6.
Individual awareness. ‘I can’t get to know and follow the progress of all
the individuals in my class: there are too many of them and they’re all so different’
7.
Participation. ‘I can’t activate them all: only a few students-the more
proficient and confident ones- seem to respond actively to my questions.’
Ur, 1996:303 Further, she writes some statements of students stated by teachers in the
class. They are: 1.
They just don’t want to learn 2.
There’s one that just comes to make trouble
3. They can’t even read in their own language, never mind in English
4. Nothing I do works with that class
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5. A few trouble-makers spoil it for all those who really want to learn
6. They’re just not interested in English
7. The only way I can get them to shut up is by giving them a test
8. I do choral repetition because that way I’m in control
9. They just laugh and make a lot of noise if we do group-work
10. If I’m friendly with them, they just take advantage
It shows that it is important for teachers to study the inappropriate behavior problems done by the students so that they will understand the nature of such
problems and the possible ways of dealing with them. While the problems that may be found outside the classroom are:
1. Less of school facilities
2. Lack of motivation from the teacher and the parents
3. Less of material supporting learning activity
4. Unsupported home conditions and environments
Those problems can affect the students’ success because they cannot make a good progress in developing their skills with lack of motivation and support from their
environments including the school, the home condition and the environment.
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D. The Causes of the Problems
