THE IMPLEMENTATION OF TEACHING ENGLISH FOR STUDENTS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT

This article is aimed at (1) describing the process of teaching and learning English for students with hearing impairment in the second grade of SMALB-B YRTRW Surakarta, (2) identifying the problems faced in the teaching and learning process and (3) the teacher’s solutions for those problems. The method used in the research was descriptive qualitative. The data were collected through the use of interview, questionnaire, observation, and document analysis. Based on the result of the research, it can be concluded that: (1) there was a good interaction between the English teacher and the students although there were some problems inthe teaching learning process; (2) there were 9 problems that can be identified from the teaching learning process and the students’ hearing impairment problem was one among them, (3) the English teacher has found and stated the solutions or strategies to solve those problems