FACTORS CAUSING STUDENTS’ MISBEHAVIOR IN LAGRAVENESE’S FREEDOM WRITERS

In learning process, misbehavior is the important problem that the teacher should handle it. Therefore, the teacher should know the factors that lead the students to commit misbehavior. The Freedom Writers Movie depicts how a teacher uses unique strategies to know the factors causing students’ misbehavior so that the learning process can run well. The purpose of this research is to describe what factors of students’ misbehavior are identified in Freedom Writers movie. This study was designed qualitatively. The data of this study were scenes on the students that lead them to commit misbehavior in the movie. The source of data in this study was a movie entitled Freedom Writers Movie. It was found that there were two factors causing students’ misbehavior: Socio-Environmental and Psychological, Physiological and Personal. Each of the factors has several classifications, They were Socio-Environmental such as (Cultural Conflicts, Parent-Children Relationship, Peer Group, Broken Homes, Socio Economic Condition) and Psychological, Physiological and Personal such as (School Factors and Overcrowding). Keywords: Misbehavior, Factors of Students’ Misbehavior, Freedom Writers Movie