An Analysis of English Student-Teachers in Managing the Use of Bahasa Indonesia in Satya Wacana Christian Junior Lab School English Classroom

This paper addresses the important use of teacher‟ mother tongue (Bahasa Indonesia) in the English classroom. This finding aims to analyze the importance use of Bahasa Indonesia in the English class interactions. A total of ten English Department studentteachers who taught in Satya Wacana Junior Lab School Salatiga, Indonesia participated and were interviewed by using stimulated recall interview. Qualitative analysis is carried out to analyze the data. The findings demonstrate that student-teachers use Bahasa Indonesia in four domains: explaining English tenses, giving instruction, checking comprehension and classroom management. The results showed that the important use of Bahasa Indonesia are for giving clearer English explanation to the students, reinforcing the students‟ knowledge and to save time. As a result of this study may be useful for English teachers to be judicious teachers in using Bahasa Indonesia in English class classroom. This paper is also completed with the pedagogical implications at the end of the paper