TEACHERS' STRATEGIES AND CHALLENGES IN STIMULATING THE STUDENTS'CREATIVITY IN LEARNING ENGLISH

Abstract

This research has a main problem about: (1) what strategies used by the teachers in stimulating the students’ creativity in learning English, (2) what challenges faced by the teachers in stimulating the students’ creativity in learning English. The researcher used a descriptive qualitative method conducted on three English teachers at SMA PPM Al-ikhlash Lampoko. The researcher used interview and observation as instruments in data collection. The results discussed showed that in stimulating the students’ creativity in learning English there were five strategies used by teacher and four challenges faced by the teachers. The five strategies used by the teachers are approaching students, giving several questions, applying discovery learning, understanding the character of students and playing game. The four challenges faced by the teachers are students had low ability in understanding English materila, students often misbehaved in the classroom, students are not confident in using English and students got bored easily in learning English.