<![CDATA[This research aims to find out the types of teacher’s communication strategies and the dominant strategy used by English teachers in teaching English at SMA Lab school Untad Palu. This research design was qualitative study, more especially descriptive qualitative approach. The subject of this research was the English teachers of SMA Lab school Untad Palu. In collecting the data, the researcher used observation and interview. The data were analyzed by using Tarone's Taxonomy. This study showed that the communication strategies used by the teacher were: 46% language switching, 27% literal translation, 14% circumlocution, 8% appealing for assistance and 6% approximation. Based on the result, the most frequent communication strategies is language switching which is found 17 times. This is due to the fact that students still have limited English knowledge, and the teacher adapts the situation by following them using a lot of L1 in order to make it easier for them to learn English. Thus, this finding may imply that English teacher is expected to use and select the effective strategies to overcome the communication problem in the classroom.]]>
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