TEACHING STRATEGIES IN FREEDOM WRITERS MOVIE
Abstract
Teaching strategies are one of the things that become a concern for teachers to achieve teaching goals in their classrooms. Teachers are required to be creative and enrich knowledge of teaching methods or strategies from various sources, including film. Freedom Writers is one of the films that can be a source of learning primarily related to teaching strategies. This study aims at identifying and analyzing teaching strategies performed in the Freedom Writers film.
Keywords: Teaching strategy, Freedom Writers, Analysis.
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