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PARENTS’ ROLES TOWARDS THE LEARNING OF FIRST GRADE IMMERSION
ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AT BETHANY SCHOOL SALATIGA
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Elise Miravania
112006041
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
2011
PARENTS’ ROLES TOWARDS THE LEARNING OF FIRST GRADE IMMERSION
ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AT BETHANY SCHOOL SALATIGA
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Elise Miravania
112006041
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
2011
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PARENTS’ ROLES TOWARDS ENGLISH LEARNING OF FIRST GRADE
IMMERSION ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AT BETHANY SCHOOL SALATIGA
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Elise Miravania
112006041
Approved by:
__________________
___________________
Anne I. Timotius, S.Pd, M. Ed.
Victoria Usadya Palupi,MA-ELT
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PUBLICATION AGREEMENT DECLARATION
As a member of the (SWCU) Satya Wacana Christian University academic community, I
verify that:
Name:
Student ID Number:
Study Program:
Faculty:
Kind of Work:
Elise Miravania
112006041
Bachelor Degree
Language and Literature
Undergraduate Thesis
In developing my knowledge, I agree to provide SWCU with a non-exclusive royalty free right
for my intellectual property and the contents therein entitled:
PARENTS’ ROLES TOWARDS THE LEARNING OF FIRST GRADE IMMERSION ELEMENTARY
STUDENTS AT BETHANY SCHOOL SALATIGA
along with any pertinent equipment.
With this non-exclusive royalty free right, SWCU maintains the right to copy, reproduce, print,
publish, post, display, incorporate, store in or scan into a retrieval system or database, transmit,
broadcast, barter or sell my intellectual property, in whole or in part without my express written
permission, as long as my name is still included as the writer.
This declaration is made according to the best of my knowledge.
Made in
: Salatiga
Date
:
Verified by signee,
Elise Miravania
Approved by
Thesis Supervisor
Thesis Examiner
Anne I. Timotius. S.Pd, M. Ed
Victoria Usadya Palupi,MA-ELT
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PARENTS’ ROLES TOWARDS THE LEARNING OF FIRST GRADE IMMERSION
ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AT BETHANY SCHOOL SALATIGA
Elise Miravania
Abstract
This study investigated parents’ role toward students’ English learning at Bethany School,
Salatiga. The purpose of this study was to discover and find out some potential difficulties which
were faced by parents in supporting their children studying in an immersion program and the
way of parents support their children in learning English as second language in immersion
program. The subjects of this study were five parents of students at Bethany School, Salatiga.
The data for the study were collected through several interview results. The analysis of the data
shows that parents have difficulties in helping their children English proficiency such as
understanding school materials lack of confidence in educating their children at home, lack of
English proficiency and lack of understanding materials. Nonetheless, though the parents found
difficulty in supporting their children English development, it was found that they tried to solve
them by (1) facilitating their children with enough learning access such as English books and
private tutors (2) guiding their study at home and (3) participating in their children learning at
school.
Introduction
Nowadays people are encouraged to learn and understand English as an international
language. This is possibly because “English is the major language that is used for many aspects
in the world such as news, international business, government, science, maritime
communication, international air traffic control, music, and movies even in some countries where
it is a minority language” (Kitao, 1997, p. 3) Furthermore, according to Crystal (2000), English
has received prestigious place as an international language, not only because of expedition and
expansion of thousand years ago, but also because of economic development in twentieth century
along with the power of media.
Knowing the importance of English worldwide, Indonesia educational curriculum
has applied English (as a foreign language) as compulsory subject. In fact, according to
Kustulasari (2009) since 2006 Indonesian government implemented the immersion program to
ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AT BETHANY SCHOOL SALATIGA
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Elise Miravania
112006041
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
2011
PARENTS’ ROLES TOWARDS THE LEARNING OF FIRST GRADE IMMERSION
ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AT BETHANY SCHOOL SALATIGA
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Elise Miravania
112006041
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
2011
i
PARENTS’ ROLES TOWARDS ENGLISH LEARNING OF FIRST GRADE
IMMERSION ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AT BETHANY SCHOOL SALATIGA
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Elise Miravania
112006041
Approved by:
__________________
___________________
Anne I. Timotius, S.Pd, M. Ed.
Victoria Usadya Palupi,MA-ELT
ii
PUBLICATION AGREEMENT DECLARATION
As a member of the (SWCU) Satya Wacana Christian University academic community, I
verify that:
Name:
Student ID Number:
Study Program:
Faculty:
Kind of Work:
Elise Miravania
112006041
Bachelor Degree
Language and Literature
Undergraduate Thesis
In developing my knowledge, I agree to provide SWCU with a non-exclusive royalty free right
for my intellectual property and the contents therein entitled:
PARENTS’ ROLES TOWARDS THE LEARNING OF FIRST GRADE IMMERSION ELEMENTARY
STUDENTS AT BETHANY SCHOOL SALATIGA
along with any pertinent equipment.
With this non-exclusive royalty free right, SWCU maintains the right to copy, reproduce, print,
publish, post, display, incorporate, store in or scan into a retrieval system or database, transmit,
broadcast, barter or sell my intellectual property, in whole or in part without my express written
permission, as long as my name is still included as the writer.
This declaration is made according to the best of my knowledge.
Made in
: Salatiga
Date
:
Verified by signee,
Elise Miravania
Approved by
Thesis Supervisor
Thesis Examiner
Anne I. Timotius. S.Pd, M. Ed
Victoria Usadya Palupi,MA-ELT
iii
PARENTS’ ROLES TOWARDS THE LEARNING OF FIRST GRADE IMMERSION
ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AT BETHANY SCHOOL SALATIGA
Elise Miravania
Abstract
This study investigated parents’ role toward students’ English learning at Bethany School,
Salatiga. The purpose of this study was to discover and find out some potential difficulties which
were faced by parents in supporting their children studying in an immersion program and the
way of parents support their children in learning English as second language in immersion
program. The subjects of this study were five parents of students at Bethany School, Salatiga.
The data for the study were collected through several interview results. The analysis of the data
shows that parents have difficulties in helping their children English proficiency such as
understanding school materials lack of confidence in educating their children at home, lack of
English proficiency and lack of understanding materials. Nonetheless, though the parents found
difficulty in supporting their children English development, it was found that they tried to solve
them by (1) facilitating their children with enough learning access such as English books and
private tutors (2) guiding their study at home and (3) participating in their children learning at
school.
Introduction
Nowadays people are encouraged to learn and understand English as an international
language. This is possibly because “English is the major language that is used for many aspects
in the world such as news, international business, government, science, maritime
communication, international air traffic control, music, and movies even in some countries where
it is a minority language” (Kitao, 1997, p. 3) Furthermore, according to Crystal (2000), English
has received prestigious place as an international language, not only because of expedition and
expansion of thousand years ago, but also because of economic development in twentieth century
along with the power of media.
Knowing the importance of English worldwide, Indonesia educational curriculum
has applied English (as a foreign language) as compulsory subject. In fact, according to
Kustulasari (2009) since 2006 Indonesian government implemented the immersion program to