Young Learners in Language Classroom

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B. Theoretical Framework

The objectives to be achieved in this study, as stated in chapter I, are to describe the students’ misbehaviors which commonly happen in English classroom, to analyze the situations of classroom around which the misbehaviors happen, and to identify the strategies of the teacher to handle those behaviors. In order to address the research problems, this study implements three major theories, namely, the theories on classroom management, classroom misbehaviors, and young learners. Young learners are the students who are in the age six to twelve years old. They are in Elementary School Suyanto, 2007; Teresa Jeanne, 2010. While Piaget 1970 says that young learners are actively constructing their own thinking by acting upon the physical and social environments. Young learners’ learning strategies are influenced by their physical and their environments. Furthermore, in answering the first research problem, namely, what the young learners’ misbehaviors that happen in English classroom are, the researcher will use the theories of type of misbehavior in the classroom. The researcher needs to know the types of misbehavior in the English classroom. Therefore, the researcher implements the theory of types of misbehaviors which have been modified by Scientific World Journal 2012. Then, for the second research problem namely, how the situations of classroom around which the misbehaviors happen are , the researcher uses the theories of common classroom management areas. The theories are proposed by 23 Scrivener 2005, p. 87, Gower, Philips, and Walters 2008, p. 40, Harmer 1998, p. 4, Scrivener 2005, p. 93, Thornbury 2010, and Mckenzie, 2006. While for the third research problem, namely, what the teacher’s strategies to manage the students’ misbehaviors are, the researcher uses the theories of managing students’ problems behavior by Davies 2007, Gower, Philips, and Walters 2008, p. 295, Brewster et al., 2007 pp. 218-219, and Harmer 1998, p. 17. The researcher observes the teacher’s strategies in handling classroom misbehaviors. All of the answers to those research problems will be presented in the descriptive forms. In this chapter, all the theories related to the classroom misbehaviors for young learners have been provided. The next is how to implement the theories as underlying principles to conduct the study.