PROBLEMS OF TEACHING ENGLISH IN EFL CLASSROOM: EXPLORING ENGLISH TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The status of English as an international language becomes a compulsory subject for almost all non English-speaking countries throughout the world. However, most of non native English speakers encountered some difficulties in learning English. This study aimed to investigate the problems of teaching English for EFL classroom in junior and senior high school level. Qualitative design is used as the research methodology in this study. The participants of this study were 10 English teachers from junior and senior high school. The participants are chosen purposively based on their experience in teaching English, both novice and experience teachers. Close-ended and open-ended questionnaire as well as semi-structured interview are employed as the research instruments for this study. The closed-ended questionnaire focused on student-generated difficulties (internal factors) and the open-ended questionnaire focused on non students-generated problems (external factors). While for semi-structured interview questions are developed based on the respondents’ responses in questionnaire. This study came up with the findings that the problems of teaching English in EFL classroom that come from students are various such as students’ low motivation in learning English and the students’ high anxiety of making mistakes. While for external factors, it is found that non students-generated problems consist of limited time to learn English, excessive numbers of students in one class, unsupported EFL classroom setting, inadequate instructional materials and unsupported schools facilities to teaching English