The Best English Teacher according to English Department Students
Citra Puspita Dewi
Abstract
The study was conducted to analyze who the best English teacher according to English Department student. The participants of the study were a hundred English Department students of any semester or year. This study used quantitative research using a questionnaire, but it was elaborated qualitatively. It focused on the students’ preference of the best English teacher whether it is NESTs or non-NESTs. However this study firstly explored the students’ understanding of NESTs and non-NESTs in order to make sure that they understand those two terms so that they could choose which one they considered as the best English teacher. The first finding showed that the majority of the participants defined NESTs as those from English speaking country that is countries which use English as the mother tongue or L1 and/or as the main language. The second finding, related to the counterpart of NESTs, was almost all participants defined non-NESTs as those from non-English speaking country which also referred to bilingual users of English. The last finding showed that most participants preferred NESTs as the best English teacher. The study suggests that NESTs got more preference for the matter of their speaking skill especially the pronunciation.
