Teachers’ Strategies In Teaching English To Primary School Students

With the growing importance and need for the English language in the global context, efforts are being made in the developing context to expose English, especially for primary school students. For that reason, the researcher conducted the study to describe the problems faced by teachers in teaching English to primary school students. This research was collected through observation of two classes, and interviews were chosen with two English teachers as participants from two schools. Each school has one English teacher at MIN 3 Aceh Barat and SD Gunong Kleng. The research indicated that there are six challenges the teacher faces when teaching English to primary school students. Classrooms were usually noisy. Most students were nosy with their friends, always wanted to answer all the teacher's questions, did not give opportunities to their friends, were sleepy while studying, bored, and chatted, which caused the teaching and learning process to not be conducive. Meanwhile, the strategies they applied to teach English to primary school students were cooperative learning strategy, contextual learning strategy, inquiry strategy, instructional strategy, play games, and audio-visual strategy. Furthermore, the teachers' perception of those strategies was relevant to primary school students because they mixed up more than two strategies to make students enjoy learning English.