Teaching Strategies for Teaching Science Using English in Elementary Schools

Abstract

English is widely spoken and become an International language nowadays. The use of English for educational world is also increasing from time to time. Many schools in Indonesia are competing to require the teachers and learners to use English as a Medium of Instructions (EMI). Therefore, many schools using English to teach subject matters. Thus, teachers have to use some teaching strategies that suit the material and learners’ ways of learning. This qualitative study aimed to investigate the teaching strategies used by the teachers to teach science using EMI. This study was conducted in a private elementary school in Salatiga, Jawa Tengah. There were 5 participants who taught science that participated in this study. A closed-questionnaire and a semi-structured interview were used to collect the data. The findings revealed that the participants tend to use teaching strategies such as Games, Giving a list of vocabularies, Code-switching, Visual aids, Experiment, and Project-based learning in the classroom. This study is hopefully beneficial for the teachers as a reference of teaching strategies to teach science using EMI.