after we identify we find things related to ELT in the Indonesian context

based on the journal the title is “ISSUES IN TEACHING ENGLISH IN A

CULTURAL CONTEXT: A CASE OF INDONESIA” , there are several problems
that prevent students from learning English. among others, culture, students'
characteristics, teacher factors, norms and beliefs, and some language aspects of
English

Indonesia itself has a variety of cultures, because cultural values are inherent
in their lives they are difficult to accept foreign culture, in this context English is a
foreign language, because that makes it difficult for them to learn English.

Brown (2007, p. 132) argued that culture is a way of life within which people
exist, think, feel and relate with others that binds them together. Because of this
cultural binding, people tend to see the world with their own cultural perspectives and
possess a tendency to perceive their own cultural reality as the correct perception.
Consequently, when they deal with other cultures, they may suffer from
misunderstandings. Such misunderstandings are likely to occur in teaching and
learning English in the context of English as a foreign language because teaching
English language cannot be separated from the English culture as ‘a language is a part
of a culture and culture is a part of language.

Culturally, Indonesian students are passive, quiet, and shy, they rarely
participate in class activities even though asked by the teacher, students in Indonesia
tend to copy what the teacher notes on the board and students still do memorization
strategies. they also think that their work will not require them to master English, this
is one of the things that makes them weak in their desire to learn English.

Teachers in Indonesia have low salaries, because little income can not
support their lives, so teachers open private lessons for students but this has an impact
on the quality of their teaching specifically in terms of their attendance at school, and
Teachers in Indonesia also have low educational qualifications even some of them
they do not have a college degree, because this makes teachers in Indonesia lack
grammar in improving ideas in English. and teachers who are not fluent in English
make monotonous teaching so it does not encourage students to practice English with
your teacher or friend.

on the other hand Students believe that the best way to learn English is to
learn English in English-speaking countries, and also students have confidence that
English is a difficult lesson to learn. Vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammatical
structures are among the barriers for students to understand in their study. Since
mostly Indonesian students start studying English at Junior high schools or around 13
year old of age, they have already possessed in their mind, their first language
mastery, and olso the difference in language structure is one of the things that inhibits
Indonesian students from mastering English, like phrases, grammar, and others

GROUP 2

 LUFNA KRICILDA
 MUSDALIFAH
 ISMIA INAFIAH
 ALFU HABIBAH
 ILA SUSANI