Learning tenses is challenging for Indonesian students in learning English. Therefore, an appropriate teaching strategyis needed to help students easily understand in learning about tenses. This research described the method for teaching tenses namely Grammar Translation Method (GTM) and Discovery Learning. Previously a lot of teachers used Grammar Translation Method and nowadays, the regulation from government asked schools to use DiscoveryLearning as method in teaching and learning process. The purposes of this research are to explain and elaborate clearly about the principles of these two methods. The principles includecharacteristics in teaching-learning process, the goals of the teaching, the roles of the teacher in the process of learning, and the last is nature of interaction between teacher and students in the class.
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