THE USE OF THE FIRST LANGUAGE DURING THE ENGLISH TEACHING PROCESS IN SMA N 6 MALANG

ABSTRAK The use of the first language during English teaching process has been a disputable issue among teachers and researchers over years. It remains controversial whether first language should or should not be used during English teaching, and how much its use is justifiable. Several studies have been conducted to address this issue. However, those studies focused on the first language use during English teaching and learning process in the primary and tertiary levels of education. The studies were also dominated by survey studies. Thus, this study was conducted in the secondary level, and was designed to be in-depth for the purpose of filling the gaps left by the previous studies. The results of the study indicated that there were fourteen different occasions on which the first language were used by the English teachers, four different manners of the English teachers in using the first language, and eleven different reasons for the English teachers to use the first language on the occasions and in the manners mentioned