Students' behavior problems in learning English at a large class: a case study at English Teacher Education Department of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

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Haryani, Ajeng Ika (2019) Students' behavior problems in learning English at a large class: a case study at English Teacher Education Department of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Classroom management is one of the important factors that should be mastered by the teacher to control and overcome the problems in the classroom, especially the students’ behavior problems. Teachers should be able to manage classes well and provide the conditions that enable students to learn in order to obtain the expected results. If teachers cannot properly manage the classroom, teaching and learning process would not run effectively. Unfortunately, not all teachers are able to manage their classes well, exactly in large classes. This leads the researcher to conduct the research in fifth semester students at English Teacher Education Department of UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya, exactly in the C class of Language Testing and Assessment. There are 36 students in the class and it makes some commotions during the teaching and learning process. The researcher tries to find the answer of these research questions; 1) What are the students’ behavior problems in learning English at a large class? 2) How does the teacher manage students’ behavior problems in learning English at a large class?. This research is a case study which is the researcher collects the data by observing the class and interviewing the teacher. The result showed that the students’ behavior problems in the class is side talking during the lecture, arriving late, causing commotion during the final few minutes and reading a newspaper during the lecture or operating cell phone. The result also showed how the teacher manages those kinds of problems according to the interview results.