Halimatul Hasanah. 2018. The Teacher’s Style in Teaching English as EFL for Students With Special Needs at SMALB B/C Dharma Wanita Banjarmasin. Thesis. English Education Department, Tarbiyah and Teacher Training Faculty. Advisors : (I) Dr. Ridha Fadillah, S.Pd, M.Ed, (II) Afifah Linda Sari, SS, M.Pd.
Keywords : Mental retardation, Teaching style , Students with special needs.
The problem formulation of this research are : what kind of teaching style that teacher used to teach mental retardation students and what are the difficulties during the teaching process. The subject of this research is the English teacher at SMALB B/C Dharma Wanita Banjarmasin. The object of this research is the teaching style in English language teaching and learning for mental retardation students in SMALB B/C Dharma Wanita Banjarmasin.
To collect the data, the writer uses some techniques such as observation and interview.Data processing in this research divided into three phases : data reduction, data display, and data verifying conclusion. Then, all the data are analyzed descriptively, qualitatively and concluded inductively.
The result of this research states that the kind of teaching style that teacher used in class for mental retardation is formal authority style and used teacher centered approach. There are several difficulties from teacher during teaching process at SMALB B/C Dharma Wanita Banjarmasin, such as difficult to make an easy material for mental retardation students, hard to identify student’s charateristic in every class, and troublesome to turn back student’s focus in teaching.