Parents’ Roles in English Learning Towards The Third-Grade Students Of One of Middle Schools in Banjarmasin

Abstract

Parents have a foremost role to carry in their children’s life. The learning success of children is also influenced by external factors, as with parents and teachers. The educational responsibility of the children cannot be focused entirely on the teacher, but also the parents. It is hoped that teachers and parents will be able to fully understand that children’s learning is essential. At the end of the day, this understanding will lead to the improvement of students’ achievement, especially in learning English. In this research, the researcher aimed to find out how are the roles of parents playing in English learning towards the third-grade students of SMP Negeri 14 Banjarmasin. The type of this research was descriptive within the quantitative approach. The data were collected from a questionnaire and used the Likert Scale. The data analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The results of this research give information that the roles of parents playing in English learning towards the third-grade students of SMP Negeri 14 Banjarmasin were the advisor, the controller, the motivator, and the facilitator. The facilitator was the most used role with the percentage of parents were 51% (64 parents), meanwhile, the less used role was the advisor with the proportion of parents were 17% (21 parents). As suggestions, parents need to maximize their awareness of their children’s education and realize that their role in children’s learning is exceedingly important. Additionally, teachers also need to strengthen the collaboration between teachers and parents, for instance providing information about student’s achievement on a regular basis and also expected to be able to help parents about what roles they should do at home.