Students' Perception toward the Use of English in Teaching English for First Grade of Vocational High School of SMK Negeri 1 Salatiga

This paper is attempted to investigate the students' perception about the use of the target language. Some people believe that the use of English as the only medium instruction in the classroom is the best way to teach the students. They believe by teaching English using English only will make the students have better knowledge in all English aspect On the other hand, English is seen as a difficult material and the students have some difficulties toward this language. Based on this condition this study is aimed at describing the students' perception about the use of the target language as the medium instruction in the classroom. The findings suggested that the teacher should use English and L1 in a certain case in the teaching learning process