ENGLISH TEACHERS’ LANGUAGE TEACHING ACTIVITIES WITH DIFFERENT GENDER AND ATTITUDE

This study deals with English teachers’ language attitude in classroom activities with different gender. It was aimed to find out attitudes are reflected by male and female English teacher in teaching activities, attitude is reflected through the language of male and female English teachers’ attitude toward English in the teaching activities and the reason why do they have the attitude such the way it is. This study used descriptive qualitative method was the design describe in qualitative research. The source of data this research were focused on the English teachers the state Senior High School in Kotapinang in Kabupaten Labuhanbatu Selatan namely SMA Negeri 2. The data of this study were the transcription from 2 male and 2 female teachers’ language when they were teaching in the classroom. The data were analyzed by applying Interactive models techniques by Miles, Huberman & Saldana analysis. Based on the data analysis, it was found that there are the differences attitudes showed by English teacher namely positive and negative attitude. Then the researcher found how and when male and female English teacher used English or Indonesia and they mixed or switched the language in the teaching activities. It had been showed the components that influenced the practice. The last, the reason of English teacher positive and negative attitude toward English have such attitude. Gender is more dominant factor that showed the attitude in teaching activities. Male teacher is more positive than female in deliver the language as a whole.