Teacher’s Roles in TEFL

Teaching English as foreign language is designed to help students in learning foreign language with knowledge and skills. This is also provided to help the students in developing the four main skills. In this situation, the roles of the language teacher are also regarded as teachniques. How an approach views the nature of language will determine how a language teacher should perform his or her roles. Based on the function, the teacher’s roles can be classified in three categories, as the facilitator, as the motivator, and as the organizer.

The first role of teacher is being as facilitator. The teacher role is provide the learning process with various learning style in order to equip the students need. It is important for the teacher to cope the class with the roles as faciliator during learning process. For successful course, it is necessary if there is an inter-relation between the teacher and the students. The teacher also required to have the basic skills to improve and design the learning process. (Brown 2000 : 89-90) The goal of education is the facilitation of change and learning. Teachers, to be facilitators, must first of all be real and genuine, discarding masks of superiority and omniscience. Second, teachers need to have genuine trust, acceptance, and a prizing of the other person-the student-as a worthy, valuable individual and third, teachers need to communicate openly and empathically with their students and vice versa. For example of facilitator teacher is Mr. Bambang Setiyadi. He is very open minded teacher, and he is very helpful teacher in learning process. He usually asks the students whether any problem to share and to solve. Then he gives many advices how to be great teacher in English learning. Actually, his class is very relax, we do not afraid how to face the problem in learning process. Unfortunately, the teacher like Mr. Bambang is very limited and difficult to find.

The second role of teacher is being an organizer. The teacher have to maintain the discipline to establish the effective learning process. It can be done by involving the learners more actively in the classroom activities. The teacher can set up and manage the learning activities to the right direction. The teacher as an organizer have to organize the class in every part, it is the central role as the organizer. The teacher can gives the clear instructions in the activities that should be done by the students. In managing the class, the teacher also make sure that every angel in the class is visible and can be heard by the teacher. The teacher also have to manage that the students would participate in all of activities with well organized. The great example for this kind of role is Mr. Patuan Raja. In my opinion, he is one of the well organized teachers. He maintains the students have to be discipline in all activities including the presentance. It is one of the important problem in his class. He gives clear instructions how to do the assignments that should be done by the students. He manage the class arrangement in order to make the learning process is more effective. He also gives the students time to develop their own skills by giving individual task that will be discussed in the class. Even the role of teacher as the organizer is needed in learning process, but well organized teacher is in a small number.

The third role of teacher is being motivator. According to Chambers (1999: 37), if the teacher is to motivate pupils to learn, then relevance has to be the red thread permeating activities'. The teacher gives praise and encouragement for possitive efforts that done by the learners. It can be done by giving some positive feedbacks. The teacher also motivates the students to acquire English in learning process. The teacher can maintain the student’s interest in order to be master English. By motivating the students, the learning process will more alive, because the students have the motivation in their selves in studying English. The good example for this teacher’s role is Mrs. Ari Nurweni. She always motivates her students in learning English. She gives many advices to the students to study more and more in order to be master in English. She also gives many recomendation of book that good for the students to read in helping the learning process. When the students make some mistakes, she gives the positive feedback that make the students motivated to be better and do not do the same mistake anymore. It is very good to motivate the students, but some of the teacher just claims the students mistake without giving any good motivation. Thats why many of students fail in gaining their learning process.

In conclusion, that the teacher’s role will determine the learning process automatically. The functions of the teacher as their role can be classified into three categories, they are as faciliitator, as organizer, and as motivator in learning English. So, if you are going to be an English teacher, you should choose your own role as the teacher in order to help the students in learning process. By determining your own role, you will also determine your future class will be.

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