In today's globalized world, English plays a significant role in worldwide.
The need for English language abilities has increased in step with the
globalization era. Mastering a foreign language is an investment and provision for
the future for one''s career. In Indonesia there are usually several special schools
that implement this multilingual education, most of them are boarding schools
such as Pesantren. Choosing the right school for children will ensure that they are
in the right environment to thrive. But the role of parents is not only choosing
schools for their children.
This research was using descriptive qualitative method, which only
focused on how the implementation English in multilingual education at Al
Muhajirin Antang Kuala Kapuas elementary school then what are the roles of
parents that have been carried out for their children who attend Al-Muhajirin
Antang Kuala Kapuas elementary school.
The result showed that from three observations at the Al-Muhajirin Antang
elementary school, researcher found that the teacher implemented the appropriate
steps, namely the teacher fulfilled the application of multilingual education. While
for parents’ role in multilingul education was also fulfilled, the parents have tried
to provide and fulfill their roles properly starting from preparation, pre-activity,
whilst-activity to post-activity. The roles that researchers found during research
and interviews include, means communicating with children, support children's
interests and talents, helping children with homework, giving gifts when children
behave well and achieve, attending events and familiarize themselves with the
school, and the last is be a good role model for children related to multilingual
education.