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Teaching English as a foreign language is a challenging task, particularly when it is done in places where English serves a very limited purpose. This study attempted to investigate the difficulties in teachingEnglish as well as the solutions taken by the English teachers at Adventist schools in Indonesia. The study captured the English teachers’ point of view in facing English teaching challenges in the classroom and the solutions they implemented to solve them through interview. A number of difficulties found, partly coming from students, partly from teachers, and partly from the school’s facility, namely, students’ lack of vocabulary mastery, lack of knowledge of wide variety of grammar and structures, teachers’ difficulties to correct students’ error of grammar, teachers’ difficulties to finish material from government curriculum, teachers’ shortage of using grammatical terminology, teachers’ difficulties to transfer their knowledge into communicative language use, inadequate resources and facilities, and time constraint. The solutions to overcome these challenges were also suggested in this study, reforming attitude, applying various teaching methods and techniques, improving resources and facilities, matching students’ level and learning situation, using and providing dictionary, making use of available resources and facilities, providing motivational feedback,looking for appropriate methods or materials, and teachers’ self-reflection might be quite helpful in coping the English teaching difficulties in classroom situation.
Keywords: Teaching, English Language, Difficulties, Solutions
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