Biological students’ perception of the advantages and disadvantages of learning english with native and non-Native english-speaking teachers

cs, excite imaginative responses and provide the springboard for fascinating lessons. 
Good method of teaching also considered one of the top suggestions when teaching 
English. Teachers can train students to be the excellent ones if they have the good methods 
for each skill or aspects. There are a lot of common and effective methods and teachers 
should use the suitable ones for teaching. The right methods should be applied for different 
skills in teaching English like teaching grammar, vocabulary, listening, reading, writing, 
speaking and pronunciation (Doff, 1988; Ur, 2012). Some students thought that the time 
for teaching English at school was not enough for them to gain enough knowledge. 
However, this macro issue needs to be discussed more as it relates to the national training 
strategy. For the time of being, students should develop their autonomy and try to absorb 
all the knowledge in the current English training program. The next suggestion with high 
votes to improve teaching effectiveness was that students would like to study English 
through telling stories, playing games, picnic. Ur (2012) stated that teachers should use 
game-like activity, tell stories, sing a song, watch films, theater and video when teaching 
English to make students more interest as they experienced a feeling of playing a game and 
motivated them to make effort to understand. Scrivener (2011) also agreed that teachers 
should use flashcards, picture stories, storytelling, films and videos so that students can 
improve their English effectively. 
6. Conclusion 
Biological students preferred learning pronunciation (88.1%), listening (64.2%), 
speaking (59.5%) and reading (57.9%) with native English-speaking teachers. Most of 
them liked studying grammar (63.5%) and writing (43.7%) with non-native English-
speaking teachers. To get better ways of teaching English, students suggested that teachers 
should choose practical and interesting topics, apply good method of teaching, increase 
time of teaching and transfer lesson by using games, stories, picnics. The implication of the 
study is that the research results will help Deans take into consideration the importance of 
teachers and methods in teaching English for students. Further study on students’ 
preference from the other fields should be done to find the whole pictures of students’ 
perception of learning general English. 
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 Conflict of Interest: Authors have no conflict of interest to declare. 
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