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D. The Causes of the Problems
Problems do not happen without any reasons. We have known the problems influencing teaching and learning activity. Now, I want to discuss the
factors causing those problems. First, the problems concerned with the learners as individuals and
personalities. In every classroom, there are students with different personalities. They are not alike in many aspects, such as attitudes, appreciations, interests and
habits of behavior. They also come from different families and environments. Therefore, their characteristics, abilities and methods to study differ greatly.
That’s why it causes problems in the learning process because it is not easy to cope with many different children’ personalities.
Second, the problems concerned with the nature of learning experiences. In every learning process, the students need to experience the process to think in
solving problems, practicing some skills and feeling the emotional experiences so that they can acquire the desire outcomes. The teacher may help them to study but
he cannot learn for them. Students with a lot of learning experiences will be more succeed than the passive one. But, not all students want to focus on the lesson.
Some of them behave inappropriately and disturb the learning process such as: talking in the class, whispering to a neighbor, drumming on a desk; trickling,
scuffling teasing; tormenting the child in the desk ahead; tripping others; hitting one another with books, ruler, pencils or whatever may be in their hands;
interrupting the teacher by leaving their seats to sharpen pencils or get something,
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and pushing desks and furniture around Elliot, Kratochwill, Cook Travers, 2000.
These are the causes of misbehavior done by students in the classroom: 1.
Students find schoolwork boring and irrelevant and try to escape it
2. Students’ out-of-school lives family or community
3. Students are imprisoned within schools that have authoritarian disposition,
which causes them rebel 4.
Student rebelliousness and attention seeking are a part of the growing-up process Arends , 2001.
Therefore, the teachers who cannot motivate their students to experience the learning process
will find some difficulties in controlling the students’ behavior in the class.
The next problem is the problems concerned with the motivation and guidance of students. Students’ motivations in studying are different one to
another. The students who enjoy language learning and take pride in their progress will do better than those who don’t. Lack of motivation may arise when the
students cannot enjoy the activity in the classroom, the teacher gives difficult tasks without any explanations before, and the students do not like the lesson. The
teacher’s personality also can affect the students’ motivation. The descriptions of unenthusiastic teacher that cannot promote the learning process are:
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1 Appear anxious or defensive
2 Often stand or sit in one spot throughout the lesson
3 Are disinterested and disengaged
4 Avoid eye contact with students
5 Speak in monotone
6 Use time inefficiently; stall Cruikshank, Bainer Metcalf, 1999:311
Then, the problems concerned with classroom management and related activities. The teacher who cannot manage the students well will make poor
condition in the classroom. For example the teacher does not prepare the material well that make the learning process useless, the teacher asks students to write in
the practice periods, the teacher asks students to write down of length notes, etc Wylie, 1967. Those time wasters can make the students behave inappropriately
because unsatisfactory teaching condition, material and method is the first factor causing the disciplinary disorders. Therefore,
inappropriate students’ behaviors arise not only from the personalities of students but also from the teacher and the
environments. The next problem is the problems concerned with the less of facilities in
the school. The factors causing this condition are the school does not have income that can be used to provide complete facility supporting teaching and learning
activity.
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Then, the problems related to lack of motivation from parents. Similarly with the motivation from the teacher, a good motivation from the parents also
gives a good impact in the students’ success. But, unfavorable home background makes some students be forced to do a lot of activities in home. This condition
makes the students fatigued and sleepy in the classroom. Some parents also do not care about their children’ educations that make the students do not have
motivation to study. The last problem is the problems concerned with unsupportive home
condition and environments. Environment creates individual characteristics. Therefore, if the environment does not have a good perception in education, it will
give a bad perception to the children not to be serious in the learning activity because the children think that education is not important.
In conclusion, there are many factors influencing the problems in teaching and learning activity whether it is caused by the teacher, the learner or the
environments. But, it can be solved with a good participation from the teacher to choose the best methods that can motivate the students to study, from the learners
that control their behavior in the classroom and from the environments that should support educational activity in the school.
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CHAPTER III DISCUSSION
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