Loquen: English Studies Journal DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.32678/loquen.v15i01 36 Native Speaker Interaction with Young Learners in English Class - Hybrid Learning Models Hariyanti Lestari 1 , Didin Nuruddin Hidayat 2 , Nida Husna 3 , Alek 4 , Anita 5 1234 Department of English Education, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta Jl. Ir. H. Juanda No. 95 Ciputat, Jakarta 5 Department of English Education, UIN Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin, Banten Jl. Jendral Sudirman No.30 Serang - Banten Submission Track: Received: January 13, 2022 Revised: March 02, 2022 Accepted: May 09, 2022 Keywords: Discourse analysis; native speaker interaction; young learners *Corresponding Author: didin.nuruddin@uinjkt.ac.id Copyright@2022 (author/s) The purpose of this study is to examine a native speaker's interaction with young learners in an English class to determine (1) what types of sentences she used in instructing young learners and (2) what tenses she used in giving instruction and asking questions while teaching young learners in the classroom. The researcher used the qualitative descriptive technique in order to perform the investigation. The information was gathered via class observation, including recording three meetings' worth of teaching and learning activities. After that, the tape was transcribed to analyze the data. The participants were a native English speaker and young learners from grade two primary students. The study's results reveal that the native speaker used various phrase types in her instruction, including simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. However, the most type of sentence she used is a simple sentence followed by a compound- complex and complex sentence. A minor type of sentence she used is a compound sentence. She also used three distinct tenses during her teaching. They exist in the present, the past, and the future. The most type of tenses she used was present and future tense. She almost rarely used past tense. This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license INTRODUCTION The number of Covid-19 cases in Indonesia continues to decline. According to Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin, the transmission of variants of the Corona virus has decreased because more people already have antibody immunity. This is one of the reasons that the government starts opening the schools. Another reason is that most of the teachers have got shots of Covid-19. However, school teaching and learning have not been typical yet. Only 50% of pupils can learn face-to-face with teachers. The other 50% still learn from home. This contemporary state of teaching and learning is called hybrid learning. According to Hidayah (2019),hybrid learning is a type of education that mixes online learning with traditional learning models. Hediansah and Surjono (2020) described hybrid learning as "a way of learning that combines two or more techniques and approaches to achieve a learning goal." Avgerinou (2015) explained why teachers choose hybrid learning over online and conventional learning: better pedagogy, more flexibility, and lower costs.