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B. Problem Identification
Teaching English to the students of elementary school is not an easy thing. Some problems arise during the teaching of English to the fourth grade students of
elementary school. It is proven that the students have difficulty in English rather than any other subject. It happens because they are not familiar yet with English since it
becomes a new subject to learn. Moreover, they cannot master English well because they are not used to practicing English in their daily life. The students of elementary
school also have a little chance only to learn English in the classroom. For this reason, it makes the students unable to learn English communicatively in both oral and
written forms. The proble ms also come from the students. The students lose their interest if the
teaching- learning process is boring. In fact, every child has hisher own interest in learning English. The students learn English in different ways and heshe has a unique
interest. These conditions encourage the teachers to be creative in transferring the knowledge by using various activities. They cannot lecture and give monotonous
exercises in learning English. Therefore, this design offers various activities to develop the students’ skills in
learning English. By giving them many activities through Multiple Intelligences, the students will be interested in learning English in order to achieve the learning goal.
Theory of Multiple Intelligences helps the teacher to know the students’ weaknesses and strengths in learning English. Through many activities in a wide variety of ways
using music, pictures, cooperative learning, chart, role play, and field trips, the students will be interested in learning English. Hopefully, they will know better which
learning activities are suitable for them to develop their skills in learning English.
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C. Problem Limitation
In the study, the writer focuses on designing a set of English instructional materials. The writer chooses the fourth grade students of SDN UNGARAN II
Yogyakarta. The writer considers that the fourth grade of the elementary school is the appropriate grade for the students to learn English because at ages 6 to 12, they are in
the concrete period. They have the ability to learn the new language more quickly than adults. Moreover, the writer also considers that studying English using various
activities will make them better in the learning process. Teaching English through many activities of Multiple Intelligences in the
classroom must be done in a limited time. Due to the limitation of time in teaching English, all of the intelligences cannot be applied at once in one topic. For this
reason, the writer tries to combine as many intelligences as possible in each topic.
D. Problem Formulation
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