The implementation of student-centered learning to facilitate slow learners in english teaching

Student-Centered Learning, as nowadays approach in education, especially English education successfully applied in many education in Indonesia. Therefore, SCL are used in almost all of study particularly in higher education as the common and beneficial approach in learning process. This study investigated the implementation of SCL to facilitate students, particularly slow learners as the main focus on this research, in English Teaching. The subject of the study is I class students of English Intensive Class in the second semester of Tarbiyah Faculty. This research used qualitative method and the data was conducted through interview and observation. The finding shows that there are seven ways teacher used in facilitating SCL for slow learners, namely: creating pair/group discussion, repeating the explanation, asking them to learn English by what they like, giving interesting topics, creating an activity based on the majority level, asking student’s missunderstanding, and giving some motivations. In applying SCL for slow learners, some challenges were found in the learning process, they are: difficulties in asking students to share/express their opinion, strengthening students' mindset, asking students to also work individually, balancing the different students' level, making them understand, and building their motivation to learn.