THE ROLE OF L1 IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO PRE-SCHOOL
STUDENTS
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Jumiarsih
112008090
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
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THE ROLE OF L1 IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO PRE-SCHOOL
STUDENTS
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Jumiarsih
112008090
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
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THE ROLE OF L1 IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO PRE-SCHOOL
STUDENTS
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Jumiarsih
112008090
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The Role of L1 in Teaching English to Pre-School Students
Jumiarsih
ABSTRACT
Although English should be the primary means of communication in EFL classroom, L1 is still useful to support the teaching and learning process. Since the use of L1 in EFL classroom becomes a debatable issue among scholars and creates pros and cons, this study was aimed to find out the purposes of using L1 when teaching English to pre-school students. This study was conducted in Satya Wacana Children Centre, a bilingual pre-school in Salatiga. The participant was the teacher. The instrument of data collection was classroom observation in which the teaching and learning process in the classroom were recorded seven times to get fix data from the participant. After getting all the recordings, the teacher’s talks in the recording were transcribed and then the use of L1 was classified based on the observation protocol provided. The result showed that the teacher used L1 for certain purposes. They were conveying meaning when responding to the students’ answers and questions, giving instruction when explaining about what the students should do and should not do, giving feedback to the students when the teacher saw the students had finished their works, checking comprehension to check whether the students understood the instruction or not, explaining new or unfamiliar words and reprimanding the students when the students were busy with themselves and did not pay attention to the teacher. This study was hoped to give an insight to the teachers that in teaching English, especially when the learners are still beginners, the learners’ L1 is still useful in certain circumstances.
