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iv. Completing sentence
The students had to complete sentence given by the writer with their own words from the vocabularies they already known.
v. Translation
The students were asked to translate Indonesia into English sentences.
2. The difficulties in Teaching English to the 4
th
Grade Students
The students already have Javanese as their mother tongue and Indonesian as second language which is used mostly at school. Then, English
as the third language which are used more seldom than Indonesian. For the students, English is just a lesson at school. They treat it same as mathematic or
social lesson, study it only when they have homework. For some students, English is just an extracurricular in regular hour. After the writer did the
observation in SD N II Bulusari, the writer found some difficulties in teaching English to the 4
th
grade students. They are: a.
Linguistic Problem The majority of students SD N II Bulusari use Javanese language as
the mother tongue and English is new for them. The students are already familiar with Javanese and Bahasa Indonesia which has different
pronunciation and spelling with English. Most of the time, the students read English words alphabetically as they do in reading Indonesian words.
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The writer must repeat the pronunciation of an English word several times all the time. Therefore, the result is not all students are able to pronounce.
b. Non-Linguistic
Basically, there are five problems in non-linguistic problems. There are classroom management, limited time of teaching, teaching
material, the student’s characteristic, and facilities and media for English
class activities. i.
Classroom management The 4
th
grade students have their English lesson on Tuesday, after having religion grade. Before starting the lesson, the students have
few minutes to prepare, when the writer came to fourth grade classroom they usually were not ready to receive a lesson. So, the
writer had to give more several minutes until they were ready. After greeting, the lesson began. When the writer asked the
students to take their
Lesson Time
book to study today’s material, some stud
ents said that they didn’t bring it with them, whenever the writer asked the students about homework’s from the previous
meeting, the students usually said that they forgot to bring it with them or forgot to work it done. The class became noise when them
walked around the class and changed the seat position. Some of them chatted with friends about film or hot recent news. To settle
down, the writer needed more than five minutes.
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They did not listen the teacher and did what the teacher asked them, the other were so quiet and they needed more attention to be
active in the lesson. There were troublemakers also. These bad attitude and behavior,
they didn’t understand the lesson, and the result was the writer could not fulfill the day goals then missed
the semester goals. ii.
Limited vocabulary The students’ vocabularies in English are limited. They only knew
few English vocabularies. When I asked the students by using English, they were difficult to answer.
iii. Limited time of teaching
SD N II Bulusari is school local content. It makes English has a limited meeting session. In a week, English only had one session of
meeting. The time given for each session was 35 minutes. The writer tried to manage the time effectively. However, the writer
also needed more time to managed the students. Therefore, the time to explain the material and discuss the lesson became shorter
the expected. Therefore, the writer had to add more meeting for the same lesson plan.
iv. The lesson books
SD N II Bulusari just uses one resource book in the English lesson, so it is difficult to develop the lesson.
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v. The student’s characteristic
There are 15 students in the 4
th
grade students of SD N II Bulusari. Every students has different own personality and behavior.
vi. Facilities and media for English class activities
The limited facilities and media make the English class activities restricted. In teaching English, it is easier if the teacher uses the
facilities and media to show the English lesson. For example, the teacher can show the picture parts of the body using LCD.
3. The Solution to Handle the Difficulties in Teaching English
