Using Indonesian in Teaching English to Seventh Grade at SMPN 1 Banyubiru

The presence and absence of L1 in EFL classroom has been controversial issue among monolingual and bilingual proponents in education field. This study analyzed teachers‟ reasons toward the presence of L1 use in English classroom using Cook (2008) and Tang (2002) framework. The data in this study was obtained from interviews with two English teachers at SMPN2 Banyubiru. The result revealed that the English teachers used L1 for many reasons, such as L1 use helped students to understand material, helped students to complete task, and also to decreased stress and to increase students‟ motivation to learn English