TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR MULTICULTURAL STUDENTS AT BIPAS, UDAYANA UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The relationship between teacher and student involves not just instruction, but interaction. When interaction fails because
of teacher misperceptions of student behavior, instructional failure will often follow. This is in line with teaching BIPAS
students who come from different countries. Teachers should use certain teaching strategies in order to meet the
students’ need and make the learning process successful. The aims of this research are to find out the teaching strategies
and the situation of students-teacher interactions and students-students interactions in multicultural classrooms of BIPAS
Program, Udayana University in Bahasa Indonesia classes. Malone (2012) stated that communicative approaches and
instructional techniques are required to teach second language. The data was collected through a classroom observation
and the documentation method through video recording during the classroom interaction was done to get the supporting
data. It was found that communicative approach through emphasis on learning to communicative through classroom
interaction, and cooperative learning such as small group discussion and pair work/discussion become the effective
teaching strategies used for multicultural students at BIPAS, Udayana University. Both teacher -student interaction and
student-student interaction are applied for multicultural students in the classroom.
Keywords: multicultural students, teaching strategies, interaction, communicative approach