The Implementation of Bilingual Based Instruction in Teaching English at the Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 1 Sungguminasa

The result showed that bilingual-based instruction implemented by the teacher at SMPN 1 Sungguminasa was English-Indonesian instruction. The teacher used English and Indonesian in context greeting, inctroducing, asking and giving an explanation, giving direction/instruction, giving clarification, asking and answering the question, and in context closing activity. The teacher used two languages with translation strategy and alternated his languages from L1 (first language) to L2 (second language) or vice versa to make the learning proccess run effectively. The factors that cause the teacher to use bilingual-based instruction in learning English are: the teacher said that bilingual-based instruction is important to make the learning process run effectively, the way the students understand the learning material is different, and using bilingual-based instruction helps students easy to understand what is explained by the teacher