What are you doing when you find difficulties in learning
42 could avoid misunderstanding between teachers and students. Teaching English
language was difficult. Therefore, if the teachers did not have good pronunciation, it would make learning English language becomes more difficult.
The second factor was English teachers should have good grammar. English teachers should master grammar knowledge. Later, they would teach about
grammar too. Therefore, teachers should have good grammar first, so they would be a good model for the students. Grammar was the basic knowledge for the
teachers. Sometimes, some students found difficulties in learning grammar. Therefore, if the teachers had good pronunciation, students would understand the
materials and instructions well. The third factor was attitude to be professional teachers. An English teacher
should have good attitude. It was to show that they were a professional teacher. Good attitude meant that teacher should be patient, smart, and wise in facing the
students. Some of the participants shared that they often found a teacher who did not have good attitude as a teacher. It would make the students were not interested
to study with that teachers. They said that they wanted to be a nice teacher. They wanted to be teachers who could make the students comfortable and fun in
studying English with them. The participants also showed that they would be interested to the teacher who could dress appropriately. If the teachers had good
looking or appearance, it made students comfortable in the class. The last factor was creativity. In their opinion, to be an English teacher
should be more creative than other teachers should. As we know, that English language had so many theories. Therefore, teachers should be more creative in
43 teaching the students. Teachers should prepared interesting and fun methods to
teach their students. It would make the students were eager to learn English. Otherwise, teachers should also think that the method would make the students
easy to understand the knowledge that was given by the teachers. Based on the interview above the researcher concluded that being an
English teacher was not easy. They had to try hard to be a good English teacher. They had to study hard in mastering every theory of English language. Moreover,
the answer showed that pronunciation was very important for English teacher candidates. It was the important requirement that they should prove to be a good
English teacher.