Teachers’ Attitude Toward Teaching English for Reticent Middle School Students

Abstract

Reticence is learners’ inability in expressing their ideas; it is also a problem in verbal response to the learning situation or lack of initiative in the learning process (Bao, 2014). This study was conducted to analyse teachers’ attitude toward teaching English for reticent middle school students. The data was collected from interview with six middle school English teachers. The finding consists of teachers’ perception, teachers’ feeling and teachers’ behaviour toward teaching reticent students. Teacher perceive that participation is important in learning English. This study also found that teaching reticent students must began with knowing students’ reasons of being reticent and do some approach to students. Some factors contributing to students’ reticence are students’ motivation, students’ confidence, teachers’ factor, material, and students’ environment. It indicated that teachers feel concerned and disappointed to their students’ reticence. This study concluded that managing classroom, using media, using games, adjusting material and encouraging students’ motivation are able to reduce students’ reticence in English classroom.