Students’ Perception of Using Mixed Languages in Teaching English at SMPN 4 Buton Tengah

Abstract

This study is aimed at examining students’ perception on the use of mixed languages in teaching English subject and to gain information in regards to the factors that cause the English teachers using mixed languages. This study applied a descriptive design.  The participants of this study were drawn from the teachers who taught English at 8^th grade and the students of 8^th grade academic year 2019/2020 at SMPN 4 Buton Tengah, in which 34 of them were taken as the subject of this study. The data were collected using close-ended questionnaire and interview session. The finding of this study revealed that students’ perception on the use of mixed languages in English subject was positive in general. They believed that the use of both English and Bahasa Indonesia by the teacher was really important in teaching and learning process, especially while explaining the learning material and communicating to the students. By following this result, there were some factors that causes teacher using mixed languages in teaching English, those were: the students’ level of English proficiency that still low in relation to the student’s poor English vocabulary mastery and the students’ desire in learning English that also still low. Moreover, this study revealed that the students learn better when taught in English and Bahasa Indonesia.