The purpose of this study was to explore the demotivating factors of the learners in EFL learning at one madrasah tsanawiah in Jambi City. Particularly, this study was to find out the particular factors that demotivate madrasah tsanawiah students’ during the learning process. Many studies have mainly focused on teachers’ motivation or students’ motivation and teachers’ motivation rather than student demotivation in English as a foreign language (EFL) learning context, whereas lack of data has been found on the factors that cause student demotivation in Indonesian EFL learning contexts at secondary school level. The participants were a purposive sample of English students who currently studied at a madrasah . The study was designed as a qualitative case study and involved a demographic questioner and face-to-face interviews for data collection. The result revealed that peer influences were as the main demotivation for the students. Other demotivators for EFL students in this research included school condition such as lack of resources and facilities. Suggestions for further research also are discussed.

The purpose of this experimental study was (M = 72.57, SE = 1.81) than Group II on student's writing proficiency (M = 56.50, SE = 2.16). This difference is significant (t (58) = 5.70; p < 0.05

This research was aimed to find out the students’ difficulties and factor causes students difficult to pronounce English fricative consonant at the Eleventh Grade of SMA Negeri 1 Kota Jambi. The research methodology of this study was quantitative descriptive research which involved population and sample. The total population of this research was the XI MIPA 1 students of SMAN 1 Kota Jambi, which consisted of 36 students. In collecting the data, the researcher gave test and interview at the class. The result of the research showed that the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Kota Jambi got difficulties in pronouncing English fricative consonant sounds of dental and labiodental. The students’ difficulties in pronouncing fricative consonant are producing sound (/q/, /ð/, and /v/). The highest percentage of the students score was 95% and the lowest was 15%. Where the mean score of the students’ test was 42,28% with a fair categories and percentage of students score test were /θ/ 76,11%, sound /ð/ 77,78%, /f/ 5%, and sound /v/ 57,22%. The factors of students’ difficulties in pronouncing English fricative consonant are; the influence of students’ mother language, the lack of students’ knowledge about English sound system and the unsuccessful in using borrowed English words.Key Words: Students Difficulties, Pronouncing, Fricative Consonant.

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menyelidiki kemampuan siswa di Universitas Batanghari Jambi dalam menggunakan Simple Present Tense. Metode yang di gunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kuantitative research dengan menggunakan pendekatan survey. Smaple penelitian terdiri dari 88 orang siswa dengan menggunakan purposive sampling. Data di ambil dengan menggunakan test pilihan ganda. Peneliti menggunakan total rata rata untuk mengetahui persentasi mahasiswa dalam menggunakan simple present tense. Berdasarkan hasil analisis, peneliti menemukan bahwa sebagian besar mahasiswa dalam menggunakan simple present tense (do dan does) rata rata adalah (41%) and di bawah rata rata adalah (20%). Terutama , kemampuan mahasiswa dalam menggunakan simple present tense di atas rata rata (35.2%) dan kategori rata rata yaitu (35.2%). Di samping itu, kemampuan siswa dalam menggunakan am, is are adalah di atas rata rata (31.8%) dan kategori di bawah rata rata adalah (28.4%). Berdasarkan hasil penelitian ini maka dapat di simpulkan bahwa kemampuan mahasiswa Unbari Semester pertama adalah sedang dalam menguasai present tense. Bedasarkan hal ini maka disarankan kepada para pengajar khususnya Bahasa Inggris (grammar) untuk memberikan tidak hanya penjelasan serta materi tetapi juga mengajak mahasiswa berpartisipasi aktif baik lewat diskusi maupun perorangan.