Teaching Techniques Used by English Tutors in Teaching Speaking at Hero English Course Langsa

The aims of this research are to describe the teaching techniques used by English tutor in teaching speaking and to identify the teaching techniques applied by English tutor in teaching speaking. In this research, the researcher uses descriptive qualitative method. The researcher collects the data by using observation and semi-structured interview. The reseacher took two tutors as subjects of this research. The researcher found that the tutors used several types of teaching techniques in speaking class. The teaching techniques were role play and game techniques in speaking class. The result of interview showed that there were role play, discussion, game, song and dialogue techniques that the tutors applied in speaking class but only two kinds of teaching techniques are role play and game techniques that be the most effective techniques to applied in the speaking class.