Disruptive Behaviour in EFL Classroom and Its Impacts on Classroom Engagement.

Considering that disruptive behaviour has been the critical, an inescapable problem, and the most challenging aspects among educational field, the current purpose of the study is intended to explore the students’ perception about the disruptive behaviour in EFL classroom along with the factors causing the emergence of the behaviour and its impacts on classroom engagement. To better understand how the students perceive the display of disruptive behavior in EFL classroom, the researcher interviewed 10 students of English Education Department (PBI) of Ar-Raniry State Islamic University Banda Aceh. Through this research, it is revealed that there are some disruptive behaviour which occured in general college students which also appeared in PBI classroom and significantly impacts the students engagement to the classroom. It is believed that the disruptive behaviour by students is clearly a problem across campuses including in EFL classroom. The words used by the participants in the interview are indicative of the key impact of disruptive behaviour that shows the impacts of the problem is to block the desire of the students to have an effective learning process.