An Analysis Of English Teacher’s Effort To Overcome Academic Dishonesty For Students’ At SMP N 1 Lawe Sigala-Gala

This study aims to determine the students' academic dishonesty and the English teacher's efforts to overcome academic dishonesty at SMP N 1 Lawe Sigala-Gala. The participants of this study were ten students of Eighth-grader and English teachers in SMP N 1 Lawe Sigala-Gala. In this qualitative research, I used purposive sampling to recruit the participants. The result shows the forms of academic dishonesty among students of SMP N 1 Lawe Sigala-Gala in English subjects, namely cheating, plagiarism, and the wrong cooperation done by students when working in groups. Several efforts by the English teacher of SMP N 1 Lawe Sigala-Gala to overcome students' academic dishonesty, namely by holding mentoring activities once a week. Teachers also provide direction and motivation to students every day through mentoring activities and activities according to Dzuhur prayer at the school mosque, make variations of different questions, and arrange the class position during the exam to minimize the occurrence of academic cheating.