A Study on the Western English Teacher Styles in Teaching at the Tenth Grade at SMAN 2 Rantepao

Abstrak

The objectives of the research are to find out the teaching styles that are used by the Western English Teacher at SMAN 2 Rantepao, Toraja Utara. and described students’ perception toward teaching styles of the Western English Teacher. The researcher employed qualitative description method for the study. The data resources for the research were thirty students at the tenth grade, they chose in randomly and one Western English teacher from Netherland. The instrument for the research consisted of observation, questioners and interview. In analyzing the data, the researcher employed a descriptive method.The result showed that, there are five teaching styles that used by the Western English Teacher in teaching English. Based on average accumulation data covered: (1) expert in teaching style is 3.902% it is categorized moderate level (2) formal authority in teaching style is 4.594%, it is categorized moderate level (3) Personal Model in teaching style is 4.289%, it is categorized moderate level (4) facilitator in teaching style is 4.391%, it is categorized moderate level and delegator in teaching style is 4.355%, it is categorized high level. From five teaching styles mention here, one of them is categorized high level.