Students’ Preferences on Lecturers’ Teaching Style in Speaking Class

This research discovers the Students’ Preferences on Lecturers’ Teaching Style in Speaking Class. It aims; (1) to find out the teaching style that applied in speaking class (2) to find out the teaching style that preferred by the students’ in speaking class. The research was conducted at English Department of Tarbiyah at UIN Ar- Raniry. This research used a qualitative descriptive and the data collected through an interview method. The participants were three lecturers from English Department and seven students’ batch 2018. This research found that; (1) The teaching style that applied in speaking class were; expert teaching style, formal authority teaching style, personal model teaching style, facilitator teaching style, delegator teaching style, authoritarian teaching style and laisse-fairezz teaching style (2) The students’ preferences on lecturers’ teaching style in speaking class is a formal authority teaching style which they preferred the lecturer who gave them a feedback after their speaking performance.