Teachers’ Role in Handling Multicultural’ Classroom; Overview on Teaching Strategies and Media

Abstract

Multicultural classroom deals with variety of students' background in terms of mother tongue, ethnicity, and culture. In the teaching and learning process, the variety is considered in deciding the appropriate strategies in media. Therefore, the discussion on teaching strategies as well as the media used applied in the classroom is considered important. This research is aimed at finding out those aspects in the perspective of descriptive qualitative study. The subject of the study is English teachers who teach at vocational school with various majors. The data obtained through observation are analyzed descriptively using Creswell's stages; transcribing, coding and classifying, interpreting, and drawing the conclusion. The result of this research shows that teachers still take significant role in classroom. Teachers' strategies and media are also decided based on students' characteristics from different kind of school.

The Use of Indonesia Traditional Game to Upgrade Pupils Speaking Skills and Lessen Pupils Speaking Anxiety

“…It is not only suitable to be applied for the young learners but also for the university level. This outcome is in line with the study of Mubaraq, Hermaniar, and Palupi (2019) who claim that games give several kinds of advantages, namely games can encourage pupils to be more motivated in the learning activities, educational games helps to promote critical thinking, problem solving, and imagination, educational games provide immediate feedback for the educators and pupils, educational games suggest fresh, different and dynamic mode of teaching that can substitute the traditional worksheets and it can be applied for distinctive levels of age.…”