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THE DIFFICULTIES OF TEACHING ENGLISH TO
THE 4
thGRADE STUDENTS IN SD N II BULUSARI
FINAL PROJECT REPORT
Submitted as a Partial Requirement in Obtaining Degree in the English Diploma Program, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts,
Sebelas Maret University
By:
Indah Winahyu Timur C9309042
ENGLISH DIPLOMA PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LETTERS AND FINE ARTS
SEBELAS MARET UNIVERSITY
SURAKARTA
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iv MOTTO
YOU MUST LEARN TO CHOOSE BETWEEN
RIGHT AND WRONG
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DEDICATION
I want to dedicate this final project to:
My Beloved Parents
My Sister and Brother
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vi PREFACE
First of all, the writer would like to thank to Allah SWT who has given me power, spirit, believe, and a lot of blessing in every step of my life especially in
finishing this final project entitled “The Difficulties of Teaching English to the 4th
Grade Students in SD N II Bulusari”. This report contains detailed information
about the job training activities, the difficulties and the solution in English teaching and learning.
This final project is hoped to be useful for the readers who want to be the teacher. The writer would like to express a grant expression of thank to everyone who gives his or her over, support, and motivation during the process accomplishing this report. The writer would like to express my gratitude to Drs. Sugiyarto Budi Waskito, M. Pd., for his time, suggestion and guidance to finish this final project.
Finally, the writer realizes that this final project is far from being perfect. Therefore, suggestion and criticism are needed as an evaluation. The writer hopes this final project will be useful for all readers.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to express my highest gratitude to Allah SWT for giving me everything in my life. I would like to say my deepest thanks to :
1. The Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts, Sebelas Maret
University, Drs.Riyadi Santosa, M.Ed., Ph.D.
2. The Head of English Diploma Program, Yusuf Kurniawan, S.S,
M.A. for the highest dedication to the English Diploma Students.
3. Mrs. Ida Kusuma, SS, MA. My academic consultant. I thank you
for your advice and guidance.
4. My Supervisor, Drs. Sugiyarto Budi Waskito, M. Pd. I thank you
for your advise and guidance in finishing this project report.
5. All Lecturers of English Diploma Program.
6. Suwitno, S. Pd., the Headmaster of SD N II Bulusari. I am grateful
to you for accepting me to have the job training.
7. All teachers of SD N II Bulusari Slogohimo. I do apologize if I
made mistakes during the job training.
8. My beloved Mom and Dad, for the support, love and prayer. I’ve
made you proud. I’ll always love you.
9. My sister Dewi, for the support, pray, advice and inspiration are
give me strength. You are the best!.
10.My future man, Exsanudin for your support, advice, patience,
kindness, time, love that you have given to me.
11.All my friends in English Diploma Program of 2009 year. I will
remember our togetherness.
12.My best friends Tori Chu, Pamela, Rizka, Fika, Dhana, Fatimah
for support, pray and suggestions. I will always remember all the best moments and millions jokes that we have made.
13.All staffs in English Diploma, mbak Heny, mbak Devi, mbak
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viii ABSTRACT
Indah Winahyu Timur. 2012. C9309042. The Difficulties of Teaching English 4th Grade Students In SD N II Bulusari. English Diploma Program. Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts. Sebelas Maret University.
This final project is written based on the job training that was done by the writer as English teacher in SD N II Bulusari, Slogohimo. This final project discusses about the difficulties in learning faced by fourth grade students of the Elementary School. Based on the observation done by the writer, she found that there were some difficulties faced by the students in learning English.
The writer found out the difficulties of students in teaching and learning
process. The difficulties included the students’ mispronunciation and limited
vocabulary. The students’ pronunciation still needs to correct and their
vocabularies also need to be added. Meanwhile, the teachers’ problems were the
of lack teaching facilities.
To solve the students’ difficulties, there were some steps done by the writer. For the lack of teaching facilities problem, the headmaster of SD N II Bulusari should try to complete the facilities. The English teacher should pronounce the English words correctly and she always repeats the difficult words to overcome mispronunciation problem of the students. In order to solve the limited vocabularies problems, the writer should write down the difficulties words in Indonesian so that the students can memorize them well.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE ... i
APPROVAL OF CONSULTANT ... ii
APPROVAL OF THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS ... iii
MOTTO ... iv
DEDICATION ... v
PREFACE ... vi
ACKNOWLEDGMENT ... vii
ABSTRACT ... viii
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... ix
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION A. Background ... 1
B. Objectives ... 3
C. Benefits ... 3
CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW A. Teaching ... 4
B. Learning ... 6
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D. English for Children ... 8
E. Factor Affecting Language Acquisition Process ... 10
CHAPTER III: DISCUSSION A. SDN II Bulusari ... 14
1. The History of SDN II Bulusari ... 14
2. The Vision and Mission ... 14
B. Activities During Job Training in SD N II Bulusari ... 15
1. Class Observation... 15
2. Making the Lesson Plan ... 16
3. Teaching and Learning Process ... 16
4. English Facilities ... 17
C. Discussion of the Problem ... 17
1. Teaching English to the 4th Grade Students ... 17
2. The Difficulties in Teaching English to the 4th grade Students ... 20
3. The Solution to Handle the Difficulties in Teaching English ... 23
CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION A. Conclusion ... 26
B. Suggestion ... 27 BIBLIOGRAPHY
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
English becomes popular in the world. As we know, English is an International language. Most countries use English as their mother tongue. Some developing countries also use English their second language such as Malaysia and Singapore. Many fields use English as the main means for communication. Mastering English well will make people easy to communicate and to do some businesses with other people from different cultures.
Teaching English is difficult, especially to the young learners. Young learners learn mother tongue and English at the same time. There are differences between mother tongue and English. In learning new language, the young learners are difficult to imagine something when learning new language because the young learners learn from what they see and what they learn.
English is a foreign language to Indonesian so that it is not easy for everybody to learn it. It can be said that it is necessary to teach English from early age. Because of that, at this time English is not taught only in elementary school level but also in play group and kindergarten. In elementary school, children just study the basic of English. They study about names of animals, fruits, transportations, colors, etc. This material is made in order to make children more interested. Students are uninterested, if the material is difficult.
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The writer is interested in teaching English to students of elementary school. Therefore, the writer held the job training as an English teacher in SD N II Bulusari that is located at Ngendak Rt 03 Rw 08 Bulusari, Slogohimo,Wonogiri. It provides the English lesson from 4th up to 6th grade in order to prepare the students in continuing their study to junior high school in SD N II Bulusari, the
writer taught the students of 4th grade to 6th grade class but in writing this report,
the writer focuses on the 4th grade class.
Based on the job training’s experience that the writer has done for two months, the writer is interested in describing the difficulties in teaching and learning English in SD N II Bulusari and the problem and solution in process of teaching and learning English to the students in SD N II Bulusari. The writer
arranges a report entitled” The Difficulties of Teaching English to the 4th Grade Students in SD N II Bulusari”
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B. Objectives
Based on the background above, the objectives of this report are:
1. To show the difficulties in teaching and learning activities in SD N II Bulusari
2. To find out the solution to solve the difficulties in teaching and learning
activities in SD N II Bulusari
C. Benefits
This report is expected to be beneficial for:
1. The readers
The writer hopes that the final project gives information about the teaching English in Elementary School
2. The English teacher of the Elementary School
The writer hopes that the final project gives the teacher information to find out the best method in teaching English
3. The Students of the English Diploma Program
The writer also hopes that the final project is useful for the students of the English Diploma Program who interested in teaching English before doing the job training in the Elementary School.
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW
A. Teaching
Brown (2000:7) in his book “Principles of Language Learning and
Teaching” saysthat “Teaching is showing or helping someone to learn how to do
something, giving instruction, guiding in the study of something, providing with
knowledge, causing to know or understand”.
Teaching can be defined as the activity done by someone to give knowledge or to help someone else to understand something. In relation to this issue, there are some issues to be a good teacher:
1) A teacher should make an interesting lesson.
A teacher should make the students are comfortable in class. Teacher should make an interesting lesson. The teacher can use pictures or songs. The students will be interested and pay attention to the lesson. The students may not become bored, in attentive and get bad score on test.
2) A teacher must love his/her job
A teacher should be interested in teaching and learning process. It will make the teaching and learning process more interesting. The teacher can be patient and can adapt with the students.
3) A teacher should have her/his own personality
A personality of each individual is unique. A teacher should have attractive personality. It will give positive effect to the students.
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The students will be comfortable and enjoyable while teaching and learning process.
4) A teacher should have lots of knowledge.
A teacher must study about everything. The students consider to the teacher is a smart person. Sometimes, the students will ask something to a teacher. The teacher can study by reading books or watching TV. It will add his or her knowledge.
5) A good teacher is a positive entertainer. A teacher should be able to
entertain the students. It can give spirit to the students. The students will enjoy the teaching and learning process. Besides, the students will have high motivation to learn. They will do the best during the teaching and learning process. Therefore, they will get good mark or better result.
(Harmer, 1998:1-2) In teaching activity, a teacher should be the leaders in class management. The teacher will make the English lesson becomes an interesting subject to make students excited. A good teacher can motivate his/her students, because if they are not motivated, they also do not want to study anything. Besides, the English teacher should be friendly with the students in order to make them comfortable in teaching and learning process.
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B. Learning
A specialized definition: “Learning is a relatively permanent change in a
behavioral tendency and is the result of reinforced practice”
(Kimbley&Garmezy,1963:133) Here are some understandings of learning according to Douglas Brown in
his book “Principle of Language Learning and Teaching”. They are:
1. Learning is acquisition or “getting”
2. Learning is retention of information or skill
3. Retention implies storage systems, memory, cognitive organization
4. Learning involves active, conscious focus on and acting upon events
outside or inside the organism
5. Learning is relatively permanent but subject to forgetting
6. Learning involves some form of practice, perhaps reinforced practice
7. Learning is a change in behavior
Based on the statement above the writer can conclude that learning is process to get new knowledge, information, and skill. They should study and practice. Therefore, they will be easier to understand everything in learning process.
C. Young Learner
Teaching English as a second language is completely different from
teaching English to adult.”To be able to teach children, teacher must understand
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In her book entitled “Young Learner”, Sarah Philip states that the young
learners means “children from the first year of formal schooling (five to eleven
years old) or eleven or twelve years old of age”
(Philips, 1993:5) While Wendy A. Scott and Lisbeth H. Ytreberg have divided children into two main groups namely: five to seven years old and eight to ten year old children. The characteristics of five to seven year old group, among others are:
1) They understand situations more quickly that they understand the language
used.
2) Their own understanding comes through the hands, eyes, and cars.
3) They have a very short attention and concentration span.
4) They love to play and learn best when they are enjoying themselves.
5) They are enthusiastic and positive about learning.
On the other hand, there are some characteristics of eight to ten year old groups:
1) They can tell the differences between fact and fiction.
2) They ask questions all the time.
3) They are able to make some decision about their own learning.
4) They have definite views about what they are like and don’t like doing.
5) They are able to work with other and learn from others.
(Scott – Ytreberg, 1990:1-4)
From the statements above we can conclude that young learners are learning easier about new knowledge. They just learn what they see and what they hear. The young learner has quickly response about situation.
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Besides, the young learners are active to question about all and they also learn easier about the lesson that makes them enjoyable. As teachers who teach young learners, we must familiar with their characteristics.
D. English for Children
In his book entitled Principle of language Learning and Teaching Brown, the major characteristics of grammar translation method are:
1) Classes are taught in mother tongue, with little active use of the target
language.
2) Much vocabulary is taught in the form of lists of isolated words.
3) Long elaborate of grammar are explanation of the intricacies of grammar
are given.
4) Grammar provides the rules for putting words together, and instruction
often focuses on the form and inflection of words.
5) Reading difficult classical texts begins early.
6) Little attention is paid to the content of texts, which are treated as
exercises in grammatical analysis.
7) Often the only drills are exercises in translating disconnected sentences
from the target language into the mother tongue.
8) Little or no attention is given to pronunciation.
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Furthermore, Wendy A.Scott and Lisbeth H.Ytreberg in their book
Teaching English to Children explained that there are eight points that must deal with the teacher when teacher teaching English for children:
1) Words are not enough
The teacher should not rely on spoken words only. Most activities for the young learner should include movements and involve the senses.
2) Play with Language
The teacher should play with the language. Playing with the language is very common in first language development and is a quite natural stage.
3) Language as Language
For students, reading and writing extremely important for the child’s
growing awareness of language and for their own growth in the language, although both are very demanding and take time and patience to learn.
4) Variety in the classroom
As a teacher, giving variety of teaching English to the children is required( Variety of activity, variety of place, variety of organization, and variety
voice)because children’s concentration and attention are short.
5) Routines
The teacher should have system and routines, organize and plan the lesson, use familiar situation, and familiar activities, in order to make the students always remember the lesson.
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6) Cooperation not competition
The teacher should avoid rewards and prizes. In this case, give cooperative pair work and group work are suggested.
7) Grammar
Teaching English for children should only include the minimum level of grammar.
8) Assessment
Even though formal assessment may not be a compulsory part of the work,
it is always useful for the teacher to make regular notes about each child’s
progress.
(Scott-Ytreberg,1990:5-7) Based on the statement above the writer can conclude that a teacher must be creative, innovative, and have teaching strategic in teaching English.
E. Factor Affecting Language Acquisition Process
According to Wenden and Rubin(1998), states:”Teaching and Learning can be
influenced by two factors:. Those factors are internal factor and external factor”.
1. Internal Factors
Internal factors are the factors included in learner’s personal condition.
Similarly, it is defined as the factors which come from or within the learners. Those internal factors are age, motivation, intelligent, first language background and experience.
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a. Age
The success of English acquisition will be guaranteed if it is done since the learner are on critical age or linguistic age which is under eleven years old.
b. Motivation
Generally Indonesia people have a high motivation in the learning English. That motivation is aroused by their own observation about English which is used a lot in songs, films, internet or comic which are available surround them. The high motivation will support the second language acquisition, which will influence to seriousness and willingness of learning
English in order to master it well. Motivation is the main factor to force the student it achieve their goals.
c. Intelligence
Learners with high intelligence tend to achieve better than those who have low intelligence.
d. First language Background
The different pattern in first language makes the students difficult to learn the second or foreign language.
e. Experience
The success or failures in the previous learning affects
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2. External Factors
External factors are the factors outside of learner’s condition that may
affect the teaching process. The factors are language environment (macro environment and macro environment), teacher, facilities and resources.
a. Language Environment
In learning English, the learner is influenced by the language environment and macro environment or formal class which is part of formal education. For example, learners are studying in the class or in the environment outside the society. For
example, the learners attend the seminar, speaking club or learning group.
b. Teacher
Education background of the teacher affects in learning process. It is the main thing to support the teacher in teaching process. The teacher who has high and good education is more recommended to teach than the teacher who has a little
education. The education of the teacher must be suitable with the lesson, which will be taught to the learners.
c. Resources
As the change of teacher-centered paradigm to
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materials since material given influence a lot of the success of
language acquisition. It also influences the student’s attitude in
learning activities. Therefore, resources given should be interesting and appropriate to the learners.
d. Facilities
The complete facilities, like language laboratory, tape-cassette recorder, etc. It helps and supports the learners in second language acquisition. By having and using the complete facilities, the students are possible to improve their English skill. Those facilities are enabling the students to learn more since they get more media in teaching learning activity. Besides, the students can develop their knowledge related to their material in the class.
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CHAPTER III DISCUSSION
A. SD N II Bulusari
1. The History of SD N II Bulusari
SD N II Bulusari is one of many elementary schools in Slogohimo. It is located in Bulusari, Slogohimo, Wonogiri. The location of the school is strategic so that it makes SD N II Bulusari is easy to reach.
SD N II Bulusari has some rooms. There are six classrooms, a teacher room, a staff room, a school guard room, and two toilets. It also has a parking area, a canteen, and a big yard for a flag ceremony on every Monday or for sport activities. SD N II Bulusari has a headmaster, 10 teachers and a school guard. The teachers in SD N II Bulusari are grouped into two part, they are class teachers and specific teachers. The class teachers are the teachers who teach the general subjects. The specific teachers are the teachers who teach the specific subject such as English, Religion, and Sport. There are two sport teachers. The first sport teacher handles the first grade to the third grade and the second ones handles the fourth grade to the sixth grade.
2. The Vision and Mission
As an Elementary school, SD N II Bulusari has a vision and mission.
The vision of SD N II Bulusari is “Terwujudnya sekolah sebagai pusat pendidikan
dan kebudayaan demokratis serta unggul dalam mutu”
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The missions of SD N II Bulusari are:
Semangat mengembangkan ketaqwaan terhadap Tuhan YME
Efektivitas pembelajaran untuk menciptakan sumber daya manusia yang
berkualitas
Menanamkan budi pekerti yang luhur
Aktif, kreatif secara luas sesuai perkembangan teknologi
Ramah pembelajaran untuk mencapai tujuan pendidikan
B. The Activity During The Job Training in SD N II Bulusari
1. Class Observation
In order to get adequate data, the writer observes the condition and
situation of teaching and learning process in the 4th grade students of SD N II
Bulusari. The writer did class observation from December until February. The 4th grade of SD N II Bulusari has 15 students that consist of 11 boys and 4 girls. There are 12 desks, a teacher table, and a bookcase to keep utensils of teaching such as chalks, books, course books, etc. This class also has a clock, cleaning tools, picture, and handicrafts. The location of this class is in the
middle of the 3rd grade and the 5th grade. When the writer was doing
observation, the writer was asked by the teacher to help the students if they had any difficulties in doing tasks.
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2. Making The Lesson Plan
Before giving the material, the teacher made prepare it first. It is used to guide the teacher in giving the material. The Lesson plan helped me to focus on topic so that it made the students have qualified activities.
3. Teaching and Learning Process
There are four important aspects in teaching and learning English activity.
a. The students
The lesson is given as an additional lesson in order to make the students familiar with the English lesson and they can communicate in English well.
b. The teacher
In teaching and learning activities, the role of the teacher is very important. The teacher is responsible to handle the students and the situation.
c. The resource book
In the English class, the English text book is important because both teacher and the students will get difficulties in teaching and learning English if there is no book.
d. The Time
The writer taught English to the 4th grade of SD N II Bulusari on Tuesday.
One hour meeting is about 35 minutes. This grade has two hour meeting every week so that it takes about 70 minutes a week.
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4. English Facilities
In teaching and learning process, it is easier if the teacher used the facilities such as tape recorder or LCD. The facilities and media to teach the English lesson in SD N II Bulusari is limited. There is no tape recorder or LCD. SDN II Bulusari only has a tape recorder. So, it makes the teacher find difficulties in teaching the English lesson to the students.
C. DISCUSSION
1. Teaching English to the 4th Grade Students
The material taught to the 4th grade was usually compiled from Lesson
Time this book was provided with picture, vocabularies, and exercises. The
picture helped students to easy understand. Most questions were completed
with pictures. To teach the 4th grade students of SD N II Bulusari, the teacher
must be patient both in explaining the materials and handling the students. Therefore, the teacher could teach them until they really understood what they had learnt. After they understood each of material in the book, the teacher continued the lesson to the next material. Based on the lesson plan, the steps used to teach the students are as follows:
a. Greeting and introducing the material afternoon
The teacher :“Good afternoon, students”
The students :“Good afternoon, miss”
The teacher :“How are you today?”
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The teacher asked :“I am fine too, thank you.”
After the greeting, the teacher asked to the students about their presences. If there was a student who was absent, the teacher asks why the student is absent.
The teacher: “Who is absent today?”
If there was no student absent. The students would say “No one, Miss”
Then, the teacher continued with introducing the material without telling to the students what the topic was about. At first, the teacher asked the students whether they knew parts of the body that the teacher pointed.
The teacher : “Students…Do you have eyes?
The students : “Yes, I have”
The teacher : Do you have ears?”
The students : Yes, I have”
The teacher : “And then, do you have lip, hands, hair, mouth, fingers?
The students : “Yes …”
Having asked about parts of the body, the teacher explained them by using Indonesian. It was done to make the students understand and answer the question well. The teacher also explained how to read and write it in the right sentence. Besides, the teacher said some words about parts of the body and then the students imitated her.
b. Song
In order to make the students interested in the material, the teacher used song. The song must have a relation with the material. The teacher
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sang the song first and repeated it in several times so that the students knew it.
My Eyes My Nose
My eyes, my ears, my nose, my mouth My eyes, my ears, my nose, my mouth
My eyes, my ears, my nose, my mouth
We all clap hands together
c. Exercise
After introducing the material, the teacher gave some exercises to the students. Therefore, the teacher conducted some activities to develop skill, especially writing skill. They are:
i. Matching
Students were given a simple test to match some pictures with the words in the box.
ii. Dictation
The students were asked to write down the words said by the writer. Most of the words were vocabularies they have known.
iii. Jumbled Letter
The writer gave the students jumbled letter. They had to arrange those letters in to the correct form.
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iv. Completing sentence
The students had to complete sentence given by the writer with their own words from the vocabularies they already known.
v. Translation
The students were asked to translate Indonesia into English sentences.
2. The difficulties in Teaching English to the 4th Grade Students
The students already have Javanese as their mother tongue and Indonesian as second language which is used mostly at school. Then, English as the third language which are used more seldom than Indonesian. For the students, English is just a lesson at school. They treat it same as mathematic or social lesson, study it only when they have homework. For some students, English is just an extracurricular in regular hour. After the writer did the observation in SD N II Bulusari, the writer found some difficulties in teaching
English to the 4th grade students. They are:
a. Linguistic Problem
The majority of students SD N II Bulusari use Javanese language as the mother tongue and English is new for them. The students are already familiar with Javanese and Bahasa Indonesia which has different pronunciation and spelling with English. Most of the time, the students read English words alphabetically as they do in reading Indonesian words.
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The writer must repeat the pronunciation of an English word several times all the time. Therefore, the result is not all students are able to pronounce.
b. Non-Linguistic
Basically, there are five problems in non-linguistic problems. There are classroom management, limited time of teaching, teaching
material, the student’s characteristic, and facilities and media for English
class activities.
i. Classroom management
The 4th grade students have their English lesson on Tuesday, after
having religion grade. Before starting the lesson, the students have few minutes to prepare, when the writer came to fourth grade classroom they usually were not ready to receive a lesson. So, the writer had to give more several minutes until they were ready. After greeting, the lesson began. When the writer asked the
students to take their Lesson Time book to study today’s material,
some students said that they didn’t bring it with them, whenever
the writer asked the students about homework’s from the previous
meeting, the students usually said that they forgot to bring it with them or forgot to work it done. The class became noise when them walked around the class and changed the seat position. Some of them chatted with friends about film or hot recent news. To settle down, the writer needed more than five minutes.
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They did not listen the teacher and did what the teacher asked them, the other were so quiet and they needed more attention to be active in the lesson. There were troublemakers also. These bad
attitude and behavior, they didn’t understand the lesson, and
the result was the writer could not fulfill the day goals then missed the semester goals.
ii. Limited vocabulary
The students’ vocabularies in English are limited. They only knew
few English vocabularies. When I asked the students by using English, they were difficult to answer.
iii. Limited time of teaching
SD N II Bulusari is school local content. It makes English has a limited meeting session. In a week, English only had one session of meeting. The time given for each session was 35 minutes. The writer tried to manage the time effectively. However, the writer also needed more time to managed the students. Therefore, the time to explain the material and discuss the lesson became shorter the expected. Therefore, the writer had to add more meeting for the same lesson plan.
iv. The lesson books
SD N II Bulusari just uses one resource book in the English lesson, so it is difficult to develop the lesson.
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v. The student’s characteristic
There are 15 students in the 4th grade students of SD N II Bulusari.
Every students has different own personality and behavior.
vi. Facilities and media for English class activities
The limited facilities and media make the English class activities restricted. In teaching English, it is easier if the teacher uses the facilities and media to show the English lesson. For example, the teacher can show the picture parts of the body using LCD.
3. The Solution to Handle the Difficulties in Teaching English
To solve the problem in teaching English to fourth grade students of SD N II Bulusari, the writer gave some good strategies to create good condition. The writer had tried some strategies bellow:
a. Solution for linguistic problems
The writer had to be patient in teaching the students. In the pronunciation, the writer had to repeat the English words or English sentences several times if there were students who spelling incorrect word. Moreover, the writer pointed the student one by one to spell sentences in front of the
class, it would be easy to know the student’s ability. Besides, the writer
also gave students many activities, such dictation, jumbled word, and completing sentence.
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b. Solution for non-linguistic problems
i. Creating good classroom management
To make a good classroom management the writer applied discipline and management. The writer could not work by herself to handle this problem, it needed a good cooperation with the students. The students had to be aware if their time in class was limited, so that they had to know the time to play, to study, to listen and to be active in English lesson. If the students were talking among themselves when the writer had a classroom discussion, the writer point one of them to answer the question about that discussion, it would make them back on track.
ii. Adding vocabulary
The students should write down the difficult words with the Indonesian on their note book and memorize them.
iii. Managing time
One of the solutions to manage time in teaching, the writer made lesson plan to be more fun and attractive for the students. It helped to create good condition in teaching and learning process.
iv. Adding lesson books
In teaching English, the writer not only needed one resource but also should take the English lesson from other resource, such as the internet, books, and other references.
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v. Understanding students characteristic
The writer had to be patient with the students, because every student has different personality. The writer should understand the characteristic of the students.
vi. Provide facilities and media
Elementary school should have facilities and media for the English lesson, such as television, tape recorder, LCD, and Computer. It could help the teacher to show the material such as picture or songs easily. Moreover, it could also make the students interested in the English learning activities.
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CHAPTER IV
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
1. The teaching English in SD N II Bulusari
In SD N II Bulusari English is taught since the fourth grade to the sixth grade. In the activities of teaching English, the writer must have more attention in developing four skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing. The writer develops skill especially writing skill, because writing skill is very
useful for young learners. To develop the student’s ability, the writer gave
some activities, such as: completing sentence, dictation, jumbled letters, matching, and translation.
2. The difficulties of teaching English in SD N 2 Bulusari
The writer found some difficulties in teaching and learning process in SD N II Bulusari, namely:
1) Linguistic Problem
2) Non-Linguistic Problem
i. Classroom management
ii. Limited vocabulary
iii. Limited time of teaching
iv. Teaching material
v. Student’s characteristic
vi. Facilities and media for English class activities
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3. The solution to handle the difficulties of teaching English in SD N II Bulusari
1) Solution for linguistic problem
2) Solution for non-linguistic problem
i. Creating good classroom management
ii. Limited vocabulary
iii. Managing time
iv. Adding lesson books
v. Understanding students’ characteristic
vi. Provide facilities and media
B. SUGGESTION
Based on the result of this final project report from the writer’s
experience on job training in SD N II Bulusari, the writer presents the suggestion to:
1) SD N II Bulusari
SD N II Bulusari should add the facilities and media such as tape recorder which is still in good condition, computer, English material, cassette, pictures, and games equipment. They can support teaching and learning process. Moreover, the students will be interested in learning English and understand the material easily.
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2) English teacher of SD N II Bulusari
The English teacher should be able to create good condition in the class and use some technique to make teaching and learning process. By using a technique, the students will be interested in learning English. The teacher should speak English in giving instruction. It made the students more familiar with English. Sometimes, the teacher should play games when teaching process in order to make the students did not get bored in accepting the material.
3) The students of SD N II Bulusari
The students in SD N II Bulusari should join the English class
actively by paying attention to the teacher’s explanation. They always ask
the teacher if there is any material that they do not understand, and doing assignment given by the teacher.
4) The students of English Diploma Program
English Diploma Program is better to give more training for the students before they do job training practice. It will make the students understand how and what they will do during the job training.
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v. The student’s characteristic
There are 15 students in the 4th grade students of SD N II Bulusari. Every students has different own personality and behavior.
vi. Facilities and media for English class activities
The limited facilities and media make the English class activities restricted. In teaching English, it is easier if the teacher uses the facilities and media to show the English lesson. For example, the teacher can show the picture parts of the body using LCD.
3. The Solution to Handle the Difficulties in Teaching English
To solve the problem in teaching English to fourth grade students of SD N II Bulusari, the writer gave some good strategies to create good condition. The writer had tried some strategies bellow:
a. Solution for linguistic problems
The writer had to be patient in teaching the students. In the pronunciation, the writer had to repeat the English words or English sentences several times if there were students who spelling incorrect word. Moreover, the writer pointed the student one by one to spell sentences in front of the class, it would be easy to know the student’s ability. Besides, the writer also gave students many activities, such dictation, jumbled word, and completing sentence.
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commit to user b. Solution for non-linguistic problems
i. Creating good classroom management
To make a good classroom management the writer applied discipline and management. The writer could not work by herself to handle this problem, it needed a good cooperation with the students. The students had to be aware if their time in class was limited, so that they had to know the time to play, to study, to listen and to be active in English lesson. If the students were talking among themselves when the writer had a classroom discussion, the writer point one of them to answer the question about that discussion, it would make them back on track.
ii. Adding vocabulary
The students should write down the difficult words with the Indonesian on their note book and memorize them.
iii. Managing time
One of the solutions to manage time in teaching, the writer made lesson plan to be more fun and attractive for the students. It helped to create good condition in teaching and learning process.
iv. Adding lesson books
In teaching English, the writer not only needed one resource but also should take the English lesson from other resource, such as the internet, books, and other references.
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commit to user v. Understanding students characteristic
The writer had to be patient with the students, because every student has different personality. The writer should understand the characteristic of the students.
vi. Provide facilities and media
Elementary school should have facilities and media for the English lesson, such as television, tape recorder, LCD, and Computer. It could help the teacher to show the material such as picture or songs easily. Moreover, it could also make the students interested in the English learning activities.
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CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. Conclusion
1. The teaching English in SD N II Bulusari
In SD N II Bulusari English is taught since the fourth grade to the sixth grade. In the activities of teaching English, the writer must have more attention in developing four skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing. The writer develops skill especially writing skill, because writing skill is very useful for young learners. To develop the student’s ability, the writer gave some activities, such as: completing sentence, dictation, jumbled letters, matching, and translation.
2. The difficulties of teaching English in SD N 2 Bulusari
The writer found some difficulties in teaching and learning process in SD N II Bulusari, namely:
1) Linguistic Problem
2) Non-Linguistic Problem
i. Classroom management
ii. Limited vocabulary
iii. Limited time of teaching
iv. Teaching material
v. Student’s characteristic
vi. Facilities and media for English class activities
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3. The solution to handle the difficulties of teaching English in SD N II Bulusari
1) Solution for linguistic problem 2) Solution for non-linguistic problem
i. Creating good classroom management
ii. Limited vocabulary
iii. Managing time
iv. Adding lesson books
v. Understanding students’ characteristic
vi. Provide facilities and media
B. SUGGESTION
Based on the result of this final project report from the writer’s experience on job training in SD N II Bulusari, the writer presents the suggestion to:
1) SD N II Bulusari
SD N II Bulusari should add the facilities and media such as tape recorder which is still in good condition, computer, English material, cassette, pictures, and games equipment. They can support teaching and learning process. Moreover, the students will be interested in learning English and understand the material easily.
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commit to user 2) English teacher of SD N II Bulusari
The English teacher should be able to create good condition in the class and use some technique to make teaching and learning process. By using a technique, the students will be interested in learning English. The teacher should speak English in giving instruction. It made the students more familiar with English. Sometimes, the teacher should play games when teaching process in order to make the students did not get bored in accepting the material.
3) The students of SD N II Bulusari
The students in SD N II Bulusari should join the English class actively by paying attention to the teacher’s explanation. They always ask the teacher if there is any material that they do not understand, and doing assignment given by the teacher.
4) The students of English Diploma Program
English Diploma Program is better to give more training for the students before they do job training practice. It will make the students understand how and what they will do during the job training.