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INTERVIEW GUIDE

There are lists of questions for interviewing the headmaster, teachers, and
students of SD Muhammadiyah Girikerto, the questions are as follows:

A. The questions to the headmaster.

1. What is your educational background?
2. Have you ever been teaching English?
3. When did the English program begin to be taught in this school?
4. What kinds of the preparations do you make knowing that English has
been taught in this school?
5. What problems do you find when you prepare it?
6. What is your opinion, as the principal of the school, to the English teacher
who need media for teaching?
7. What kinds of facilities does the school provide especially for English?
8. Are there any efforts to improve the English quality in the school?
9. What kinds of efforts will be done?
10. What are the responses of the students’ parents to the efforts for improving
the English’s quality in this school?

B. The questions to the English teachers.

1. What is your educational background?
2. When did you start to teach English?
3. Is the English program very important being taught in elementary school?
4. How many textbooks do you use for references to your teaching materials?
5. Do the students have those textbooks?
6. Are all the materials in those textbooks being used for teaching material?
7. What is the most difficult material being taught?
8. Do the students show the same behavior when the non-English subject’s
teacher teach?
9. Do you use media during teaching?
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10. What kinds of media do you use in the teaching-learning process?

11. Can you reach one topic in one meeting of seventy minutes?
12. Are you following the curriculum on developing the material?
13. Who is the exam designer for the semester’s examination?
14. Are the students showing the same response when you teach in the
morning and in the afternoon?
15. Do you often carry out the outdoor teaching-learning process?
16. Is the learning’s system always in the form of pairs/groups?
17. Is the students’ different gender influencing their motivation and behavior?
18. What are the differences of teaching the students from different grade (IV,
V, and VI)?
19. What kinds of material do the students often found difficulties?
20. What are the students’ responses when you ask them to buy an English
textbook?
21. Why can a topic be or not be done in one meeting?
22. What are the problems that you ever faced during teaching English?

C. The questions to the teachers of other subjects.

1. What is your educational background?
2. Have you ever been teaching English?
3. When did the English program begin to be taught in the school?
4. What is your opinion about “Is the English program very important being
taught in elementary school?”?
5. What are the students’ responses to English program?
6. What are the responses of students’ parents when you ask them to buy an
English textbook?
7. Do the students show the same responses to the English subject and your
subject?
8. Is there any students said that English is difficult to learn?
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D. The questions to the students.

1. What is your name?
2. What is your grade?
3. Do you like learning English?
4. What are the difficulties when you learn English?
5. What language do the teachers use in the class?
6. Does the English teacher use media during teaching-learning process?
7. What are the difficulties you found in the examination?
8. What do you feel when you learn English?
9. Do your parents help you to solve the problem when you found difficulties
on learning English?
10. Are you following any English course?