The Benefits of Being Taught by Native English Teachers in Writing Class: students’ Perceptions

Abstract

An issue of native English teachers as the right teachers in English teaching has been discussed for many years and many institutions provide many native English teachers as a selling point of the institutions. Many experts deem that native English teacher s are more capable in teaching English especially for productive skill like writing because of the language proficiency that native English teachers have. Inspired by this issue, this paper intends to explore what benefits that English Department of Satya Wacana Christian University students got when they were taught by native English teachers in writing class. Data included questionnaires from 50 students who were taking or had taken writing class with native English teachers. Qualitative analyses were also conducted to explore the finding in details. The result shows that there were five benefits that students got from native English teachers to improve writing skills and build their motivation toward writing. This study recommended to teachers or any institutions to concern on what kinds of right skills or classes that should be taught by native English teachers