This research was aimed to reveal the teaching strategy employed in TOEFL
preparation course taught by the instructors of Language Development Center
(LDC) Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto (UMP). A descriptive quantitative
research with survey design was conducted to figure out the teaching strategies
used, and to find out which strategy is mostly used. The teaching strategies are the
ones grouped into traditional taxonomy: presentation, discovery, inquiry, and
cooperative learning strategy. The subjects of this study were 19 instructors of LDC
UMP. The data collected through questionnaire and interview showed that all
strategies are used by the instructors of LDC in teaching the course. Discovery
strategy is the most dominant strategy used by the instructors (79.30%). Inquiry
strategy sits on the second position (63.16%). Presentation strategy positions as the
third mostly used strategy (54.74%). Meanwhile, cooperative learning strategy
ranks the last (48.95%).