TEACHER'S EFFORTS IN CREATING EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AT SMP AL-AZHAR CITANGKOLO

SMP Al-Azhar Citangkolo is located in Langensari District, Banjar Regency, West Java Province. This school is located in the environment of Islamic boarding school of Al-Azhar Citangkolo foundation. The location is quite conducive and comfortable for learning process and has great expectations to be able to compete with the other schools. One of the basic part and important aspect of teaching is classroom management. Teacher as manager in the classroom has to manage the students well and has a good classroom management to make their students enjoy in learning process. With good management, the class condition will be more life and interesting for the students. The purposes of this study were to describe teacher’s efforts in creating effective classroom management, to find out the challenges faced by the teacher in creating effective classroom management, and to analyze the effective classroom management in English language teaching at SMP Al-Azhar Citangkolo. The research was descriptive qualitative research. The subjects were the English teacher and the students of VIIth grade (VIIP class) of SMP Al-Azhar Citangkolo. The object was the effective classroom management in English language teaching. The data collection techniques carried out in this research were a triangulation of data namely observation, interview, and documentation. The researcher did the observation to know the activities of the teaching learning processes in the classroom which is related to the classroom management applied. Interview is used to collect information from the students and English teacher to know the teacher’s efforts and the challenges faced by the teacher in the classroom management applied. The technique of data analysis in this research were the data reduction, data presentation, and verification. The results of this research showed that teacher’s efforts in creating effective classroom management divided into five components. There were physical design of classroom orderly rows and separate table, rules and routines, relationships, engaging and motivating instruction, and discipline. To solve the problem, the teacher gave a treatment and educational punishment