A CASE STUDY ON THE SEVENTH SEMESTER STUDENTS’ PROBLEM OF ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT IN PARTICIPATING TEACHING PRACTICE PROGRAM AT LPBA (LEMBAGA PENGEMBANGAN BAHASA ASING) IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2021

ABSTRACT
Shobah, Nur. 2022. A case study on the seventh-semester students’ problems of English education department in participating teaching practice program at LPBA (Lembaga Pengembangan Bahasa Asing) in the academic year 2022. Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty of Education and Teacher Training. Advisor: Adib Ahmada, M.Pd.
Key Word: Problem, Teaching Practice Program
This research was carried out at an institution in which there is a foreign language development program or more familiarly called the LPBA (Lembaga Pengembangan Bahasa Asing) and the focus of this research is the student teaching practice program. In 2022, teaching practice programs that are usually carried out informal educational institutions will be transferred to non-formal educational institutions due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus in Indonesia and even throughout the world. This causes 7th-semester students to be unable to carry out teaching practice programs outside the pesantren area. So the solution is to hold a teaching practice program in non-formal education institutions in the Darussalam Islamic boarding school area. Because the teaching practice program in non-formal institutions is new and there will be new activities in it that must include additional activities, this study will discuss the problems of participants in carrying out the teaching practice program for the 2021/2022 school year.
The problem formulation of this research is What are the seventh-semester students' problems in participating in the teaching practice program at LPBA (Lembaga Pengembangan Bahasa Asing) at Darussalam Islamic Boarding School in the academic year 2021/2022
This research uses descriptive analysis. To collect data, the researcher classifies the types of data after collecting data according to the procedure, then the writer analyzes the data qualitatively.
The findings of this study conclude that the case study of the problems of 7th-semester students majoring in English education following the teaching practice program at the LPBA (Lembaga Pengembangan Bahasa Asing) for the 2022 academic year, including the difficulty of adapting to new people, accessibility of places and others such as the internet and working hours. too much conflict with the main activities in the pesantren.