Communication strategies of English native speaker teacher in the teaching and learning process in a kindergarten

Ni Made Mestriani,I Ketut Seken,I Nyoman Adi Jaya Putra,A.G Abdullah,J Foley,A Hellman,I.G.N.A Suryaputra

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20184200046

Abstract

In Dyatmika Kindergarten, the students came from different cultural backgrounds and nations. They were taught by English native speaker teacher in English sessions. The students sometimes might understand the intention of the teacher; however, sometimes they might not understand at all. Therefore, the teacher should know how they communicate with the students to avoid misunderstanding. This study aimed at identifying, describing and explaining communication strategies used by English native speaker teacher at Dyatmika Kindergarten during English sessions of the teaching and learning process. This study used descriptive qualitative design, and the data collected through observation and interview. The data were analyzed using taxonomy of communication strategies by Dornyei and Scott (1995). The result indicated there were thirteen communication strategies used by the English native speaker teacher in teaching and learning process. The use of communication strategies by English native speaker teacher was expected to inspire other teachers inside and outside Dyatmika Kindergarten when they communicate with students and make the students understand the message conveyed by the teachers.

Highlights

Teaching and learning are two things that cannot be defined apart
Communication strategies used by English native speaker teacher at Dyatmika Kindergarten showed the teacher attempted to make students understand the teacher’s intentions and solve the problem when the teacher communicated with the students
Classification of communication strategies proposed by Dornyei and Scott in [6] was used in analysing types of communication strategies used by the English native speaker teacher

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Introduction

Teaching and learning are two things that cannot be defined apart. According to Brown [1], teaching is a guiding and facilitating learning, enabling learner to learn and setting condition for learning. [1] learning means acquiring knowledge of a subject or a skill by study, experience or instruction. [2] supported that learning serves a basis for future progress in society. The purpose of teaching and learning could be accomplished when the strategy of teachers in communicating in the class could be understandable by the students. The school have students who come from different cultural background and nations. The students have to communicate using English to be able to interact with other students and the teacher. They would be hard to comprehend the message. The teacher should know how to communicate the message as clear as possible to the students

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