Strategies of the English Teachers in Islamic Boarding School (IBS)

摘要

Nowadays, learning English becomes a necessity to support the progress of a nation. Finding the best learning strategy becomes a challenge that needs to be answered by English researchers and teachers. Investigating English language teaching and learning in regular schools is very common. This study is intended to investigate and unpack the kinds of strategies that are used by teachers who teach English as a foreign language in Islamic Boarding School (IBS). We used in-depth interview as a method to collect the data. The result of the study showed that teacher education background, enthusiasm level or student motivation, teacher's understanding of the student's character, and norm applied in IBS become the determinants of which strategies that were used by the English teachers in IBS.