English Education Journal
Vol 8, No 1 (2017): English Education Journal (EEJ)

Teaching English to young learners: A case study at Nurul Quran Islamic School Aceh Besar

Nurasiah Nurasiah (Syiah Kuala University)



Article Info

Publish Date
06 Feb 2017

Abstract

This study was conducted to see how English language teaching-learning for young learners was done at Nurul Quran Character Based Islamic School in Aceh Besar. This was a qualitative study in which all data were described in a systematic way based on the research questions. Observation sheets, an interview guide, other documentation, field notes and recordings were used as instruments for this study. The data was analyzed by classification, reduction, display and drawing of conclusions. The subject of this study was an English teacher at Nurul Quran Character Based Islamic School. The findings showed that the teacher made preparations including designing the syllabus and lesson plan and preparing and providing the teaching materials. The activities presented in the classroom were based on what was stated in the lesson plan. The activities were procedural and at the students’ level. The teacher had several problems in conducting the teaching such as problems with the curriculum, syllabus design and lesson plans. Then she had problems with students with special needs and with noisy classes, student discipline, catching students’ attention and even problems with the size of the class and the size of the classroom. However, the teacher was capable of solving all these problems so that the teaching-learning could run well.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

EEJ

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

EEJ (English Education Journal) is a peer-reviewed and open access academic journal published by the Graduate Program of English Language Education, University of Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. It presents the work/research of students and lecturers who are in the program. It is published four ...