The students Problem Identification

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2. The students

The students of X IS II form a big classroom with the total of 31 students. Commonly social science students are often known as talkative and expressive students. However, they were not. Many of them were quiet in the classroom. To know them more, questionnaire on level of confidence and brain dominance was spread to them. 30 out of 31 students filled the questionnaires. The result showed that actually their confidence level was generally high. Dealing with the brain dominance, one of them was right-brain hemisphere dominance, 13 of them were left brain hemisphere dominance, and 16 of them were neutral. These things gave some impact to their language learning. Many of them were left-brain hemisphere dominance which might imply that they had the characteristics of being planned and structured. They did not change easily or were not flexible and somehow they were low risk taking people. The last characteristic might inflict their development in the language learning especially in speaking, therefore their rist taking should be encouraged. In respect to the problems in the ELT processes, they revealed several things in the interview. First, they were not confident in speaking using English. Second, they felt inferior to their friends who were regarded as more capable in English. Third, they were afraid of making mistakes. Fourth, they had difficulties in comprehending tenses. Fifth, they lacked opportunities to practice English meaningfully. Sixth, they did not have the supporting environment to use English productively. Seventh, the students were afraid of confirming their comprehension which one of the impacts was that they did not get the clarity of the materials. 10 Added to this, the teacher cannot help them because she did not know that the students were in trouble. Since the first English meeting, the students were grouped fixly by the teacher. These groupings were expected to give the students opportunities to share their learning with their friends. During the presentation activities, the students