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STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS TOWARD THE USE OF BAHASA INDONESIA IN
TEACHING ENGLISH
Heriyanto Irawan
Abstract
English has become one of the major subjects in all schools nowadays and many teaching
methods were developed to help teaching English. In opposition of the direct method which has
been adopted in educational institutions in Indonesia, to help the students have a better
understanding when learning English, another method is used which is by using first language
(L1) to help the students. In this study, I will aim to discover how students actually perceive L1
in their English learning. I wanted to find out how the students would actually perceive L1 in
their English learning. The data is collected from the questionnaires that were given to the XII
year students which will be analyzed later using SPSS software. One of the findings shows that
the students actually perceive L1 as a tool to help them study English better, especially when
they would have to ask their teachers something they do not understand. However, the result also
shows that if L1 is used too much, the students would then perceive it as an obstacle to their
learning.
Keywords: Student’s perception, L1 use, Contrastive analysis