EFL Teachers’ Challenges And Strategies In Teaching In The Distracted Classrooms: A Case Study In Sma Bahrul Ulum Sekapuk

This study is to describe the challenges and teaching strategies used by the EFL teachers in teaching in the distracted classrooms to the grade eleven students of SMA Bahrul Ulum Sekapuk in academic year 2018/2019. It was conducted to investigate the teachers’ teaching challenges and the strategies they used to cope those challenges they met. The researcher used descriptive qualitative to analyze the data. The researcher collected the data by observing teaching learning process and conducting interview with the EFL teachers. The researcher used two research instruments, there are observation checklist and interview guided. Based on the collected data, the researcher concluded that there were eight challenges faced by the teachers which are (1) tired of raising voice, (2) unequal voice, (3) unequal attention, (4) disparate interaction, (5) annoying noise, (6) inactive students, (7) stubborn students, and (8) thin school wall. The strategies used by the teachers to cope those challenges are (1) making eye contact to all of students, (2) praising the obedient students, (3) asking questions to draw students’ attention, (4) warning the students, (5) giving a purpose to listen to others, (6) using mimes and gestures, (7) using the class list for nomination, (8) giving students responsibilities, (9) changing students’ seat, (10) involving students in the lesson, (11) using group work, and (12) giving written instruction. Based on the conclusion, the researcher offers several suggestions to cope the challenges faced by the EFL teachers. The teacher should use more creative strategies to make the learning process more effective and efficient and the school should build the thicker wall so that the class will not be distracted by the noise outside the class.