Instructional strategies in english as a foreign language (EFL) teaching at state and private higher education in Indonesia
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11255961Keywords:
Quiz, presentation, group workAbstract
The study aims at exploring instructional strategies applied by English lecturers in teaching English course in university. It focused on the ways of lecturers communicate their instructional materials to the students. This study used qualitative research method with a case study in state and private university. The data were collected by observing the classroom interaction, all interactions are put in field note and video. The research result reveals there are some instructional strategies found from the classroom. There are beginning strategies, explaining strategies, teaching-learning strategies, taking attention strategies, technological strategies, seating arrangement strategies and closing strategies. The strategies are helpful for students to interact actively in the classroom. Therefore, it can be concluded that the lecturers should be creative and innovative to explore strategies that can make their students interactive in the classroom.
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