| dc.description.abstract | Teaching English in Indonesia is indeed challenging, especially in remote areas where the majority of people do not use English, except at school. Although various steps have been taken by the Ministry of Education in develop the teaching and learning process of English, there is still a lot of room or other components for improvement. Teaching English as a foreign language in remote places is indeed difficult, very different from teaching in urban areas. The condition of students who do not have an understanding of the English language, and human resources (teachers) who teach these subjects are relatively few. Because on average, each school only has approximately 2 English teachers .
The purpose of this research is to find out the challenges faced by teachers when teaching English as a foreign language at the secondary education level in Lembata, and the solutions to solving the challenges. This research is using descriptive qualitative methods in the form of interview and observations. The subjects of this study were 6 English teachers in 3 schools in Lembata.
The results of this research including: students’ lack of vocabulary mastery, students’ low concentration, students’ lack of discipline, and students’ boredom, lack of teacher training and professional development, teachers’ limited mastery of teaching methods, inadequate facilities and resources, and time constraints. To deal with these problems, this research also found the solutions applied by the participants to solving the challenges. Each of them has its own stratum of efforts to overcome the challenges of teaching in the classroom, such as applying various teaching methods and techniques, matching student proficiency levels and learning situations, managing classes, utilizing available resources.
Every English teacher faces different challenges. Therefore, for teachers, these findings can be applied in the teaching process based on the real environment of the readers. Furthermore, for the future researchers they may use the similar topic with different subject or different levels of school.
Key Words: Analysis, Challenges, English Foreign Language, Teaching English, Secondary Education, Solutions | en_US |
