THE DIFFICULTIES IN TEACHING ENGLISH udTO THE 4TH GRADE STUDENTS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN SDN GULON 169 JEBRES SURAKARTA ud

摘要

udPutut Bayuaji, 2008. The Difficulties in Teaching English to the 4thud Grade udStudents of Elementary School in Sdn Gulon 169 Jebres, Surakarta. English udDiploma Program, Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts, Sebelas Maret University. ud udThis final project has the purpose to identify the difficulties in teaching English to the ud4thud grade students based on the job training that had been done by the writer in SDN udGulon, Jebres, Surakarta. The difficulties were related to teaching and learning udprocesses which have been faced by both the students and the writer himself. udThe writer use grammar translation method to deliver the material of the lesson to the udstudents. The activities used during the lesson were prepared to develop students’ udskills in reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Occasionally, the writer used udpictures and games to help the students understand better about the materials given. udDuring the job training, the writer found many difficulties in developing the students’ udskills and in delivering the material. These problems were divided into two udcategories, linguistic problem and non-linguistic problems. Different pronunciation udbetween English with Indonesian became the problem of linguistics. While in non-udlinguistic problem, the main issues were class management, limited time of teaching, udstudents’ motivation in learning English and the lack of ELT facilities. In this final udproject report, the writer also provides solutions to handle those problems. To udovercome linguistic problem, continuous practice could help the students. Creating udgood class management, managing time to teach, motivating students’ to learn udEnglish through fun and effective learning, and providing aid and ELT facilities could udhelp the writer and students’ to overcome non-linguistic problems. Moreover, a good udcooperation with the class teacher would help more. ud