A Case Study of English Teaching Methods at SMK Muhammad Yaasiin Sei Lepan

Abstract

Teaching English to young learners in many schools is not something
new. Although English has been taught for many years, the fact shows
that the process of teaching English does not always get good result.
The English language teaching and learning often face problems. In
this case, strategies of teaching English are purposed to the way of
teaching English in practicing. In SMK Muhammad Yaasiin Sei
Lepan, there is a native speaker who guides them in English study
club and the English teachers have long experiences in teaching
English for young learner. It also makes students more interested in
English. To make the students enjoy and fun in learning English, the
teachers must be able to select the appropriate strategies for teaching
English to them and know the characteristics of young learners in
order that it can help them in understanding the lesson and
automatically the goals of teaching and learning English can succeed.
The purposes of this research are to investigate the strategies used by
the English teachers in teaching English at SMK Muhammad Yaasiin
Sei Lepan Langkat, to investigate the reasons why the English
teachers choose those strategies in teaching English at SMK
Muhammad Yaasiin Sei, and to investigate the students’ responses of
teaching strategies applied in teaching English at SMK Muhammad
Yaasiin Sei Lepan. Research method, the reseacher used case study
design with qualitative approach consisting of some data in the form
of word, phrase and sentence. It is used to describe something that is
known to have happened in the process of teaching activity. The
reseacher also interviewed the English teacher and some students to
get more information. Before doing the interview, the reseacher made
the interview guide. The reseacher conducted the three tehniques, they
are observation, interview and documentation.