Introduction

There are many reasons to learn English as a foreign language, from working in
another country to discovering your roots, through intellectual curiosity, romance,
travel, and secret communication. Now, you start thinking about how you’re going
to study it. Finding time to study a language can be quite a challenge. You may
think that you don’t really have enough of it, but it’s surprising how many spare
moments you have during a typical day, and how they can add up to a useful
amount of study time. After all, you will think about the materials and tools do
you need to study a language. In parallel to this new shift of interest, what factor
which affect language learning process,  and the teacher’s role in language
learning process.

Factor Which Affect Language Learning Process

There are many factors that affect the language learning process, in here we will
classify in two factor. That is internal factors and external factors.

&   Internal Factors

In this case we will talk about physical, psychology, and exhaustion.

1)     Physical

a)     Healthy

Learning process can goes well with good healthy. Healthy is someone in good
condition. If someone want to learn well, he/she must try to keep his body in good
condition such as, can share his time to get rest, eat, relaxation, pray, and sport.

b)     Physical Defect

Someone in physical defect must try harder then others. For them, they can
choose a special school with special rolls.

 
c)      Gender

Females reported greater overall strategy use than males in many studies
(although sometimes males surpassed females in the use of a particular
strategy).

2)     Psychology

a)    Intelligence

The ability to meet and adapt to novel situations quickly and effectively.

The ability to utilize abstract concepts effectively.

The ability to grasp relationship and to learn quickly.

The great intelligence give more progress to the learning process.

b)     Attention

Attention is concentration (mental focus, serious consideration). To get the good

mark in the subject, the student must pay attention at the lesson, if he/she bored
he probably will fail in that lesson.

c)     Interest

Interest is persisting tendency to pay attention to and enjoy some activity or

content. If the lesson doesn’t interesting to the student, the student can’t learn
well.

d)    Aptitude

Aptitude is the capacity to learn. Everyone have different aptitude. So, its time
for us to use that aptitude maximally for our best. The good way is to use the
aptitude by study and practice as much as we can do.

e)     Motive

Motive is an effective-conative factor which operates in determining the direction

of an individual’s behavior to words an end or goal, consiously apprehended
or unconsioustly. The teacher must have good motive to get attention from
or unconsioustly. The teacher must have good motive to get attention from
the students. More motivated students tended to use more strategies than
less motivated students, and the particular reason for studying the language
(motivational orientation, especially as related to career field) was important in
the choice of strategies.

3)     Exhaustion

Exhaustion can happen in physic and psychology. Psychology exhaustion’s  can be

seen like bored, or loose motivation, etc. In Physic’s like restless, lost of energy,
etc. All of that can give bad impact to the student. Psychological and Physical
exhaustion can make disappear by sleep, get some rest, give the variation in
study, relaxation, pray, get some sport or call the psychiatry.

&   External Factors

In external factors can be difference into three groups, like : family factor, school
factor and social factor.

1) Family factors

a)     The way of parent’s educate

The way that parent’s educate give the big influence to their children. Because
family is the first and prominent educator.

b)     Relations between each family

Relations between each family means relations between parent and their
children, children with their brother and sister, etc. If in that family have
harmonious relations will created a success students.

c)      The House’s Atmosphere

The best atmosphere is quite and peaceful. In that situations children will stand
at home, also make children study well at home.

d)     Family’s Economic

Children must get the basic requirements such as foods, clothes, books, chair,
table and many other things. All of that requirement can get if his/her family have
enough money.
 

e)     Parent’s Understanding

Sometimes their children lost of interest in their subject, in that moment the
parent must give them support.

f)        Cultural Background

Rote memorization and other forms of memorization were more prevalent

among some Asian students than among students from other cultural
backgrounds. Certain other cultures also appeared to encourage this strategy
among learners.

2) School Factors

a)     Teaching Method

Teachers must have training relevant to their own instructional situations in

three areas: identifying students’ current learning strategies through surveys,
interviews, or other means; helping individual students discern which strategies
are most relevant to their learning styles, tasks, and goals; and aiding students in
developing orchestrated strategy use rather than a scattered approach.

b)    Curriculum

Students of different ages and stages of language learning used different

strategies, with certain strategies often being employed by older or more
advanced students.

c)     Learning Style

Learning style (general approach to language learning) often determined the
choice of English learning strategies. For example, analytic-style students
preferred strategies such as contrastive analysis, rule-learning, and dissecting
words and phrases, while global students used strategies to find meaning
(guessing, scanning, predicting) and to converse without knowing all the words
(paraphrasing, gesturing).

d)     The Relations between Students and Teacher

Teaching learning process happened between teacher and students. The teacher
must cooperative in his/her class.

Building upon a foundation of integrity, teaching as an ethical profession requires

the interaction of six essential behaviors:

Caring

Setting high standards

Providing intellectually challenging learning experiences

Organizing and managing classes to facilitate learning

Student centered

Reflecting

e)     The Relations between Each Student

Create good relations between each other is necessary because it can give
positive influence to their study.

f)     Discipline

Discipline at school not only for the teacher and the students, but also for every
bodies in that area. All of person at school must obeyed the rule. If nobody never
break the rules the situation will always under control.

g)     Schedule
Good management in time will give positive impact for teaching-learning
process.

h)     The School’s Building

The size of school is equals with the students.

i)       Type of Task

The nature of the task helped determine the strategies naturally employed to
carry out the task.

j)      Attitudes and Beliefs

These were reported to have a profound effect on the strategies learners choose,
with negative attitudes and beliefs often causing poor strategy use or lack of
orchestration of strategies.

k)     Tolerance of Ambiguity

Students who were more tolerant of ambiguity used significantly different

learning strategies in some instances than did students who were less tolerant of
ambiguity.

3) Social Factor

a)      Students Activity in Their Society

We need to limit their society, so that didn’t disturb their study. We can choose the
activity that increase their study, like course, group discussion, etc.

b)      Mass Media

The example of mass media are movie theater, radio, television, newspaper,
magazine, etc. We need to give wise guidance and control from parents and
educators, in family, school and society.

c)     Companionship

Influences from friends will more faster come in their mind. The students make
Influences from friends will more faster come in their mind. The students make
relation with the good friends. It will give him positive impact better than negative
ones.

d)      Social Interaction

Social interaction also give the impact to their study. Many kinds of people around
them. They need to choose the right one.

The Teacher’s Role in Language Learning Process

I think that school is a place where one goes to learn but I also believe that there
should be times where fun is a necessity. That is why I think that a teacher should
also have fun with the students. Kids learn faster when they feel attracted to
an exciting lesson. Teachers must not forget that kids get born fast that is why
creative lessons must be plane ahead.

The teacher must create a warm and protective environment but at the same
time professional. If students feel secure in the classroom the result will be
shown in the academic progress. A good star could be a mutual trust with
each student. Teaches have the responsibility to know his/her students in the
classroom. Each day, the teachers show one of their attitudes that the students
are unaware. Also, the students do the same in order for the teacher to get to
know them, too. This is a good exercise to do because it benefits the whole class
to break the ice. The first days most of the students are afraid of the teacher
because they do not know how is the teacher’s personality. It will change until the
point that the teacher and students discover to have common hobbies with each
other.

The teacher needs to show respect toward the students so the students also
respect the teacher. Teacher must not forget the s/he teaches to different stu‐
dents who brings different students who brings different traditions and customs
because the students come from different backgrounds. “One of the keys that is
useful for teachers is to understand and accept the way students are acting.”

The following is a list of suggested activities which when presented may facilitate
development during the student/teaching experience.

Ä     Initial Activities :

1)      Handle classroom routines such as attendance, dismissal and perhaps

lunch distribution.
2)      Assume teacher’s duties – conduct assembly, clubs and other co-curricular
activities.

3)      Check students’ written work and keep necessary records, such as progress
report, assignments and projects and mark them.

4)      Keep students’ in a healthy environment and thus keep them safe.

ü      Organizational Activities

Keep a notebook or idea file; include minute fill-in ideas such as games, songs,
stories, sources of information and materials, ideas for learning centers, bulletin
boards, etc.

Make direct observations of classroom activities.

Plan a design for a classroom.

Become responsible for the general appearance of the classroom. (Cleanliness,

arrangement of charts, etc.).

Prepare bulletin boards.

Develop a repertoire of techniques for class management or handling individual

behavior problems. (Punishment, Time out, etc.).

Create an individual behavior management.

Conclusion

Factor Which Affect Language Learning Process, such as internal and external
factors facilitate the learning of the target language by the language learner. All
language learners, needless to say, fulfill factors which affect language learning
process.  Since the factors like physical, psychology,  exhaustion, family factors,
school factors, social factor, etc. Affect the way in which language learners
learn the target language, it is reasonable to support all language learners must
learn the target language, it is reasonable to support all language learners must
fulfill all that factors to become successful learners. Another is successful
learning centers require good classroom management and well known rules and
procedures. A productive learning environment will take time to implement. The
teacher may have to call the whole class together regularly in the beginning to
ensure that all rules and expectations are being adhered to. Remember, think
big but start small. Introduce a couple of centers per week. Finally, one of the
most important thinks is never an individual endeavor, and neither is teaching.
Although teachers can feel quite isolated into their classroom, it is important to
remember that openness, collaboration an sharing are the keys to enrich your
teaching and your students’ learning. It is I call the Teaching English for Foreign
Language Community Triangle:

Last modified: 17 Sep 2018