Collective Nouns Types of Nouns a. Common and Proper Nouns

is relatively fixed in time and there is generally little scope for individual interpretation. Method is learned through training. 6 The appropriate method for teaching certain material is to attain the objective of teaching. The success of the teaching is determined by the method depends on the situation. Not all of the teachers use the same method. There are many methods, used in teaching English. The suitability of the method will also depend on the material to be presented. The method is good if it can be used effectively in conjunction with the material. There are various methods of teaching a foreign language presented by William Francis Mackey, namely: 1 Direct Method, 2 Natural Method, 3 Psychological Method, 4 Phonetic Method, 5 Reading Method, 6 Grammar Method, 7 Translation Method, 8 Grammar Translation Method, 9 Eclectic Method, 10 Unit Method, 11 Language Control Method, 12 Mimicry- Memorization Method, 13 Practice Method-Theory, 14 Cognate Method, 15 Dual Language Method. 7 The teacher needs imagination to manage the class; The teacher must have a certain skill of teaching to develop learning process in the class and teacher must be able to create a particular situation. 6 Jack C.Richards, Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 244. 7 William Francis Mackey, Language Teaching Analysis, London: Longman, Green-co,ltd 1965, p. 151. Dan Desberg described that, “our real problem in learning a language is learning foreign language, the second language. Second language learning means imposing a second set of habit upon your first set of habit ... ” 8

2. The Teachers’ Problem

The success of teaching-learning process depends on several factors, the most important of which is the teacher. A teacher must understand how to motivate his students, and he must master the use of instructional devices, procedures, and material in order to do so. He should, however be aware of their limitations and strengths as motivators. But aside from his function as an organizer of activities, the teacher more frequently than any other individual occupies the center of the stage as an active disseminator or information, direct of thinking. 9 Discussing this topic is primary connected with the problem of teaching English, as a foreign language, which are generally felt by every teacher of English not only in our country but also in other country. Those problem steam from the different language system between English and our language. It also said by P.Gurrey in his book: “There is a special difficulty that is not commonly considered; it is the difficulty of overcoming the ba rrier of the pupil’s mother learner’s language reactions, and impedes the learning of the new language because it is so firmly s eated as the first language.” 10 8 Dan Desberg, Language Learning Goal, English teaching forum, Vol.1,1963. P. 3. 9 Ibid, p.192 10 P.Gurrey, Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Longman Group,ltd, London, 1970, p. 3.