Improving English as a Foreign Language Proficiency in Elementary Schools: Exploring Students’ and Parents’ Perceptions

English Teaching Reconstruction at Indonesian Elementary Schools: Students' Point of View

“…This young group took the benefit of the early start of acquiring a foreign language and as a result they were better exposed to this language as compared to other learners. They acquired better language skills than those who started acquiring this language as adult learners in their late life (Ibrahim, Bombieri, & Varenina, 2020). Being younger learners further helped them achieve higher proficiency than the older learners (Krashen, 1982).…”

“…Besides, there were also five semi-structured questions in the questionnaire. The questionnaire was divided into three parts: the first part dealt with questions about English learning resources outside the school, modified from common instructional materials used by Cakir (2015); the second part consisted of questions related to English learning opportunities, based on past studies literature and experts' opinions (Copland & Garton, 2014;Erarslan & Topkaya, 2019); the third part measured students' perceptions of the English learning in a classroom, modified from studies related to teachers' point of view (Ibrahim et al, 2020;Iyitloglu & Alci, 2015;Jin et al, 2014).…”