A Study of Foreign Language Educators’ Teaching Strategies for the English Program at Samakkhi Witthayakhom School

Abstract

   This research aimed to display the teaching strategies used by the foreign language educators in the English Program at Samakkhi Wittayakhom School. The study focused in four aspects: Interaction Management, Questioning, Teacher’s Feedback and Error Treatment, as adapted from Xuerong effective and efficient teaching strategies’ theory (2012). Data was gathered through observation, video recordings and checklist. The sample populations were the six foreign teachers handling six academic subjects: English, Science, Mathematics, Health, Computer and Social Studies and 180 mixed-raced students enrolled in the English Program (1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, and 3.2). The students and teachers were observed and taken videos in the designated classroom through random sampling.
   The results revealed that foreign language educators utilized different efficient and effective strategies that timely relevant to the learner’s generation needs. Some of the foreign language educators still at eased with traditional teaching strategies like for using worksheet, textbook, blackboard, chalk and flashcards. In the findings of this study, most of the foreign language educators used modern teaching strategies such as using technologies such as; power point, projector, microphones etc. Feedback of student to the foreign language educators was at the highest level for Teaching Strategies as 47 percent, followed by Questioning Strategies as 42 percent, Interaction Management as 31 percent, and the least was Error Treatment as 18 percent.