Analysis of Teaching Methods to Address The Disparities in English Proficiency Among Students

The purpose of this study is to find out: (1) the factors affecting students'gaps in English lessons at school. (2) the teaching methods used by teachers toovercome students' English gaps in English lessons. (3) students' satisfaction withthe methods used by teachers. This research was conducted in February to March2024 from 25 second grade students at MTs Roudlotul Khuffadz. This researchused a qualitative case study research, the instruments used were observationsheet, questionnaire and interview. The observation checklist was distributed tothe teacher of the second grade at MTs Roudlotul Khuffadz, then questionnairewas distributed to 25 students and interview was distributed to 10 students of thesecond grade and a english teacher at MTs Roudlotul Khuffadz. The findings ofthis study show that the factors that influence students' gaps in English lessons arehealth, peers/classmates, breakfast, online games, and seating position. Teachersuse two methods in teaching English. The methods are Answer and QuestionMethod and Memorizing Method. Students' satisfaction with the methods is thatthey are very satisfied and happy in teaching English, they understand the materialmore easily, can improve their pronunciation and increase vocabulary throughMemorizing Method while through Answer and Question Method they caneffective way for children to focus and train their thinking in answering questions.And the final result of students' satisfaction, states that students are very satisfiedwith the teacher's teaching methods because in addition to being interesting andeasy to understand, the methods are also influential in overcoming the gap inlearning English in the classroom.