DIFFERENCES OF MALE AND FEMALE STUDENTS’ DISRUPTION AND ENGLISH TEACHER INTERVENTION

Students’ disruptive behavior is classroom disturbance which can interrupt the learning process. This misbehavior of students needs to be controlled so that the learning process can run smoothly and effectively. The purposes of this study were to determine the differences in the types of disruptive behavior of male and female students at SMKN I Kota Banda Aceh, Langsa and Lhokseumawe, as well as the differences in the interventions given by English teachers to them. The quantitative design was used by employing questionnaire as data collection technique which was distributed to 298 students consisting of 90 male students and 208 female students. Quantitative data were analyzed using Mann Whitney formula (U test) with the help of SPSS. 26. The results showed that there was significant difference in the types of disruptive behavior between male and female students, but there was no difference in the intervention of the teachers on disruptive behavior done by male and female students