This study aims at describing the challenges that found in teaching English at SD Negeri Jeruk, Magetan and the coping strategies to overcome the challenges found in teaching English at SD Negeri Jeruk, Magetan. The subjects from this research are the English teacher at SD Negeri Jeruk, Magetan and the students from V grades at SD Negeri Jeruk Magetan. The objects of the research are the challenges in teaching English to primary school and the coping strategies to overcome the challenges found in teaching English at SD Negeri Jeruk, Magetan. This is a qualitative research and the data are taken from interview and observation. The result from this study show that there were the challenges in teaching English at SD Negeri Jeruk, Magetan, the challenge come from internal factors and external factors and the to overcome the challenges found in teaching
English at SD Negeri Jeruk, Magetan, the teacher used cognitive strategies and the students used cognitive strategies, compensation strategies and meta-cognitive strategies
