Exploring Teacher’s Principles On Teaching Speaking For Students In Higher Education Level

Abstract

Thisresearch aims to explore about the teaching principles that is used in a teaching speaking class. This research used descriptive qualitative as the research design. The participant was one of the lecturers in English Education Department at one of the universities in Indonesia. The data were collected through an interview by using seven principles of teaching speaking by Brown, D.H. (2000). The finding shows that the lecturer employed several teaching principles such as facilitate students with a small group discussion, provide motivations, apply translanguaging, inviting a related guest, and create learning engagement. The finding also found that the teacher reflects on her teaching by using teaching reflective strategy. The data in this research implies that teaching principles should cover complete teaching components from instructional design to learning reflection.