摘要：This research has two objectives; 1) to explore teachers’ belief about the use of full English during learning activities, and 2) to determine the factors that affected the use of full English in teaching English to teach English to young learners. Embedded mixed method was used in this study. The quantitative data were collected by distributing 1 set of closed-response questionnaire item to 38 teachers of English who teach English at elementary schools in Palembang, the capital city of South Sumatera Province, Indonesia. Meanwhile, the qualitative data were collected from one-to-one in-depth interviews with 15 teachers of English who were willing to be interviewed. Students’ responses to each questionnaire item were analyzed using descriptive statistics analysis by SPSS program. Meanwhile, the qualitative data retrieved from the interviews were analyzed using thematic analysis. The use of full English for teaching young learners by employing mixed method research has become the novelty of the research. It was revealed from the study that first, teachers shared positive beliefs about the use of full English while teaching English in the class. Second, there are five factors that affected the use of full English during learning activities; 1) The English Proficiency of the teachers; 2) School Policy; 3) The homogeneous level of students’ language performance 4) Teacher’s classroom management skills and 5) Students’ attitude toward English.
关键词：full English;teachers’ perspective;teaching English to young learners
