A Study Of English Language Teaching Strategies Of Teacher At MIN 11 Banda Aceh

Teaching English to children in many schools is not something new. Teaching and learning English frequently various problems. In this case, in learning English at MIN 11 Banda Aceh, there is a teacher who guides student in English study groups and the teacher has experienced in the field of English language teaching for children. This also makes students more interested in language English. To make students be happy and interested in learning English, teachers must choose the right English teaching strategy for them and know the characteristics of children in order to help them in understand the lesson and automatically reach the goals of learning English. The research employed a correlational method by using a qualitative approach. The purposes of this research are to investigate the strategies used by the English teacher in teaching English at MIN 11 Banda Aceh and to investigate the reasons why the English teacher choose those strategies in teaching English at MIN 11 Banda Aceh. The results showed that there were eight strategies applied by the teachers in teaching English, they were : Listen and repeat, Listen and do, Question and answer, Subtitution, Listen and identify, In-pair, Coperative learning, Outdoor activity. The teacher also had some reasons toward the strategies. they are: to stimulate students to pursue knowledge on their own ability, to develop the student interest and motivation, to review previous lessons, in order to make them understanding, to assess achievement of instructional goals and objectives.