Teachers’ Perception towards Teachers’ Role in Teaching EFL Students

Abstract

This study aims at describing English teachers’ perceptions of teachers’ role in teaching EFL students at the classroom. Therefore, the researcher conducted a research to know the roles that most frequently and roles that least frequently performed by English teachers in the classroom. The researcher used quantitative method by applying survey design. The subjects of the study were 50 English teachers as the participants. The data of the study were collected by teachers’ perceptions of teachers’ role questionnaire in an online way using google form. The data were analyzed by tabulating manually, then the researcher categorized based on the tabulation. The result of the study showed that the English more apply the role of teacher as a facilitator in teaching EFL students; it showed 87%. The next finding showed 86, 5% for motivator role used by the English teachers to motivate the students in learning. Furthermore, the controller role got 84, 4%, it assists the English teachers to control the students in learning. The next is tutor role, which got 82%, it means that the teachers help the students to improve their skill in a specific subject. The next role is resource that showed 81, 2%, it refers how the teachers give the information from the internet that related with the material in learning process. The assessor role got 74, 8%, it showed that the English teachers have to evaluate, give the task, and feedback. The last result showed 54% for organizer, which showed that organizer role is least used by English teachers in teaching EFL students. Based on the result, it was suggested for the English teachers to understand well how to apply every teachers’ role in different situation. Future researcher also be able to conduct similar research about teachers’ role by offline way to do the observation and interview directly for collecting the data.