40 English courses to improve and develop his English knowledge and ability to
enable him to teach the students in this school effectively. Then, the second participant teacher B was a 27 years old famale. She
has just finished her study from an English education department at UIN Islamic State University Makassar in 2010. Then, she started teaching English in the
early 2011. She has been teaching English for the last two years. She has a high dedication in doing her job as a teacher. She teaches English in this school at
grade four and grade five. Besides, she has also attended alot of English courses to improve her English knowledge and proficiency.
b. Research Setting
This study was conducted in SDN 010 Tanjung Selor, East Kalimantan. This is one of several state or government schools located in the capital city of
Bulungan regency Kabupaten Bulungan East Kalimantan. The study was started in the second semester of 20122013 academic year. It was done during
January 2013. This school consists of grade one to grade six and divided into 20 classes
i.e. 3 classes of grade one, 4 classes of grade two, 3 classes of grade three, 4 classes of grade four, 3 classes of grade five, and 3 classes of grade six. There are
about 28 to 30 students in each class. Totally, this school has 614 students, 28 teachers, and 4 employees in it. Since, this school has only thirteen classrooms,
the duration for the class is divided into two sections. Grade one and grade two start from 07.30am to 10.15am, grade three and four start from 10.30am to
01.30pm, and grade five and six start from 07.30am to 12.05pm. In this school English was taught as a local content or muatan lokal. Students in each grades get
41 the English lesson once a week with 2 x 35 minutes allocation for each meeting.
In the 20122013 academic year when the researcher conducted the research in this school, English was taught from grade four to six.
There were several reasons for the researcher to conduct this research in this school. The first one is because this Elementary school is located in the same
town where the researcher lives. This supports the research in term of time management in conducting this study. The second reason is in term of
accessibility. The researcher has no problem when the researcher conducted this study in this school, because this school is as the school where the researcher
taught before. Hopefully, the reseach findings contribute to the development of English teaching and learning quality to this school in the future.
4. Research Instruments
