TEACHER’S ROLE IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Abstract
The teaching of English as a foreign language in Indonesia aims at providing learners with adequate knowledge touse the language for communicative purposes, both oral and written form. Although student-centered learning has
been the dominant activities in the classroom during this decade, the roles of English teachers in managing the class,
in applying teaching and learning methods, as well as in preparing the learning materialsare still of crucial parts
especially in cunducting multidirectional communication between teacher and students and among the students
themselves.
In term of teaching, teachers are not only requested to transfer knowledge from their brain to their students‘, but also
prepare them with adeqateskills and valuable social norms for the use of conducting good relationship in social life.
This article attempts to investigate the roles teachers that should be performed at class and then give some advice of
affective strategies in English teaching as a foreign language.
Keywords: English Foreign Language, Teachers‘ role, Communicatice competence
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