Teaching styles of Western and Southeast Asian teachers'Model in ELT in Indonesia

The aim of the research is to find out the teaching style model that used by the western and Southeast Asia teachers at senior high school in Toraja, Indonesia and explore students’ perception toward teaching style that used both of them. The researchers used qualitative descriptive method for the study. The data resources for the research were ten students at senior high school, they chose in randomly, English teacher from Toraja, Indonesia and English Teacher from Netherland. The instruments for the researcher consist of observation, questionnaire, and interview. in analyzing the data, the researchers used a descriptive method. The result showed that differences of teaching style culture in Teaching, western teacher style are: teacher is facilitator, individual is most important, students are encouraged to do their own thinking, group discussion is important mode instruction, making mistakes is part of learning, students sometime polite to teacher, sometime does not required text. Smoothest Asia Teacher: teacher is authority, individual is least important, group is all important, students hesitant to ask.