CHALLENGES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SCHOOL-BASED CURRICULUM (SBC) IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING (A Case Study at MIM Al Furqan and MIN Kelayan Banjarmasin)

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nida Mufidah
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Time Allocation ◽  
English Language ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
School Based

This research is conducted to find outthe challenges in implementation of SBC in English teaching in madrasah Ibtidaiyah faced by the teachers in Banjarmasin South Kalimantan. There are two English teachers from two schools involved in this study; They are MIM Al Furqon, and MIN Kelayan Banjarmasin. Questionnaire, observation, interview, and documentation were used to gather the data. The data needed are the implementation of SBC in English teachingwhich can be seen from the syllabus, lesson plan used by teachers and the implementation in class and also the challenges that the teachers face in implementing it. The result showed that one school out of two applied SBC in different style (MIM Al Furqan). It can be seen from the preparation, practice and evaluation. The other school, MIN I Kelayan, still applied previous curriculum. The challenges faced by English teachers were also varied among others are diversity of students, restricted time allocation for English, facilities, nonrealistic indicators in syllabus and educational background, workshop of curriculum development. All should be responsible in the hand of government and teachers.Key words: School Based Curriculum, English Teaching, Elementary schools

scholarly journals English in Brazil: Insights from the Analysis of Language Policies, Internationalization Programs and the CLIL Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyria Finardi ◽  
Roberta Leao ◽  
Livia Melina Pinheiro
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Globalized World

<p class="Normal1">The paper proposes a reflection on the role of English in the globalized world and its teaching/learning in Brazil. With that aim, the study reviews language policies and internationalization programs in Brazil regarding the role of foreign languages in general and of English in particular. The theoretical framework includes a review of an English language teaching (ELT) approach used mainly in Europe, as a result of globalization and internationalization, the Content and Language Integrated Approach (CLIL). In order to support this reflection, a case study was carried out to examine pre-service English teachers’ beliefs on the use of CLIL in Brazil. The results of study show that pre-service English teachers understand the importance of the CLIL approach though they are aware of the various obstacles to its implementation in that context. The study suggests a review of language policies in Brazil so as to ensure a convergence between them and internationalization policies and approaches, at all levels of education. Regarding the ELT approach analyzed, the study concludes that despite the difficulties associated with the implementation of CLIL in Brazil, it represents a relevant alternative in that context.</p>

scholarly journals Smart Teacher Smart Class Portal in Enhancing Secondary School English Teachers’ English Language Teaching Knowledge in Bangladesh

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 147-157
Author(s):  
SM Kamruddin Ropum ◽  
Md Yasin Arafat
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Knowledge ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Teaching Learning

Smart teacher smart class (STSC) is a portal developed by Dnet which contains curriculum, teachers’ guide, education policy, textbook, lesson plan, multimedia contents, and teaching-learning strategies on different subjects aiming to provide content and pedagogical support to the secondary school teachers in Bangladesh. Making an offline CD, the STSC portal is provided to the respective teachers of secondary schools Dnet works with. The regular use of the STSC portal helps the teachers to improve their knowledge about effective teaching-learning techniques. The study was designed as one group pre-test post-test quasi-experimental method to find the effect of STSC portal on secondary school English teachers’ English language teaching knowledge (ELTK). Twenty eight English teachers from 14 secondary schools were selected purposively to form the group and the tests were administered on them considering 6 months intervention (STSC portal) period. The test was adapted from Cambridge language teaching knowledge (TKT) test focusing on different ELT aspects. The tests scores of the teachers were categorized in 4 knowledge levels: limited, basic, deep and extensive. The findings of the study show that the STSC portal induces a significant improvement of the teachers’ ELTK. Most of the teachers showed better performances in the post-test than the pre-test. Moreover, significance (0.001) and effect size score (0.91) also depict a clear and large effect in enhancing teachers’ ELTK. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v19i1-2.12087 Journal of NELTA, Vol 19 No. 1-2, December 2014: 147-157

scholarly journals English Teachers’ Perspectives on Using Music in English Language Teaching in Thai Secondary Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Xiaowei Xi
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Teachers Attitudes ◽  
Teachers Perspectives

The present study aimed to 1) investigate English teachers’ perspectives on using music in English teaching in Thai secondary schools; and 2) explore the problems teachers met while using music to teach English in Thai secondary schools. Participants in the present study were 55 English teachers from different secondary schools in central Bangkok, Thailand. The instrument for the current study was a questionnaire which included 24 Likert-scale items about teachers’ perspectives involving the attitudes, beliefs, intentions and problems of using music in English teaching, and one open-ended question asking about the problems teachers met while using music in their English teaching. Results from the quantitative data of the current study revealed the significantly positive attitudes and beliefs of the English teachers in Thai secondary schools on using music in English teaching, however, the results of open-ended question mismatched with the teachers’ attitudes and beliefs, which indicated that teachers actually did not use music in their English teaching frequently. The reasons and recommendations for future research have been discussed.

Investigating the Implementation of 2013 Revised Curriculum and School-Based Curriculum from Postmethod Pedagogy Principle: Teachers’ Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-125
Author(s):  
Muhammad Anjar Nugraha ◽  
Slamet Wahyudi Yulianto
Keyword(s):  
Private School ◽  
Integrated Curriculum ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
School Based

Take-in the ever-changing policy of Education in Indonesia seems a very long-crucial issue to be discussed. Post-method pedagogy offers with the controversial claim that in the 21st era the play of teaching method is dying. Post-method pedagogy is the current issue of English Language Teaching (ELT) nowadays. This is a qualitative case study aims at investigating English teachers’ perspective towards post-method pedagogy. English teachers from two senior high schools in Subang has taken as the participants. A school is a public school, in which implements 2013 revised-curriculum and one another school is a private school that implements a School-based Curriculum or integrated curriculum. Those teachers administered the questionnaire and one teacher for each school will be chosen to conduct classroom observation and semi-structured interviews. According to the result of this study, the researcher indicates that all the participants tend to implement Communicative Approaches-Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)-Task Based Language Teaching most in their future classes. Eventhough the participants have their own style of teaching, they are not believe in themselves enough to produce their own teaching method. They have an authority to combine and prove it with their beliefs and background knowledge. They pay attention to the background of language learner and should not only focus on native speakers’ value. The researcher is almost able to observe the macro strategies that purposed by Kumaravadivelu. There is no difference between teacher who implements the 2013 revised curriculum and school-based curriculum or integrated curriculum from post method pedagogy principle

scholarly journals Factors affecting the quality and efficacy of an ELT-INSET: A case study of Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-66
Author(s):  
Shakila Nur ◽  
Megan Short
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
English Education ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Quality Parameters ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Quality Issue ◽  
Teacher Trainers

Given the integral role of English teachers in promoting quality English education, English language teaching in-service teacher education and training (ELT-INSET) plays a crucial role in developing quality and professional competence of English teachers. It is in this regard, when the inevitability of ELT-INSET is growing worldwide, our article identifies quality parameters of an ELT-INSET conducted in Bangladesh. This qualitative case study was conducted as part of a doctoral project employing semi-structured interviews with one ELT-INSET programme coordinator, three teacher trainers and 12 trainees (English teachers) of an ELT-INSET. The cross-case analysis of the interview data identified six factors adversely affecting the quality and efficacy of the ELT-INSET. The factors included the absence of needs analysis culture, an ineffective trainee selection mechanism and proper monitoring system, the quality issue of teacher trainers, contents and materials, the lack of required logistics support and finally, the bureaucratic power-coercive ELT-INSET management. The article, by shedding light on those findings, finally informs the policymakers with some implications with which to develop their policy and to enhance and ensure the quality and efficacy of ELT-INSET programmes. The implications might also be applicable irrespective of INSET for other subjects and polities with the same context beyond Bangladesh.

scholarly journals “I was refused an ELT job for being non-native”-- An Insight into the Native Speaker Ideology in ELT

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 940-945
Author(s):  
Ke Ren
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
English Speaker ◽  
General Picture ◽  
Native English Speaker ◽  
English Teaching ◽  
Insight Into

In English language teaching (ELT), compared with non-native English speaker English teachers (NNESTs), native English speaker teachers (NESTs) seemingly gain prominence and are often taken for granted as better English teachers for non-native speaker students, which is described as the native speaker ideology (NS ideology) in this area. In foregoing research of this issue, much attention has been paid to the comparison of NESTs and NNESTs, or students’ perceptions on NESTs and NNESTs, while studies having a general picture of the NS ideology are scant. On the basis of literature review, the paper is attempted to have an overall picture of the NS ideology in ELT, with a focus on its causes, its effects on English teaching and learning, and its irrational aspects. In the end, corresponding implications for English teaching and learning are proposed based on the foregoing discussions. 

scholarly journals The Implementation of Authentic Assessment in English Language Teaching

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 270
Author(s):  
Indriyana Saputri ◽  
Joko Nurkamto ◽  
Dewi Sri Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Study Data ◽  
English Language Teaching

<p>This research aims to describe (1) teachers’ perceptions toward authentic assessment; (2) the implementation of authentic assessment; and (3) the effects of authentic assessment to the quality of English Language Teaching (ELT). The research method used in this study is qualitative research method, case study. The data were collected through in-depth interview with the teachers and the students, passive classroom observation, and document analysis toward syllabus, lesson plan, scoring rubric. The data were analyzed by using case study data analysis proposed by Yin (2002) consisting of examining, categorizing, tabulating, testing. The next step used in analysing the data was pattern matching. The findings of the research are: (1)teachers’ perception toward authentic assessment is assessment which can assess the students’ knowledge, skill, and attitude during the teaching and learning process; (2) the implementation of authentic assessment in English language teaching conducted in one of state senior high school in Surakarta includes types of authentic assessment, the steps of developing authentic assessment, documents used in implementing authentic assessment, teachers and students’ roles, teachers obstacles in implementing authentic assessment; (3) the implementation of authentic assessment affects to the quality of English language teaching. It can improve students’ motivation, interest, self-confidence, activeness, enthusiasm in learning English. The implementation of authentic assessment can also improve the students’ English ability and learning result.</p>

scholarly journals Integrated Components of Intercultural Competence in English Language Teaching at College: Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-80
Author(s):  
Muh Hesan ◽  
Slamet Setiawan ◽  
Ahmad Munir
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
College Level ◽  
Intercultural Integration

In this global world, foreign language teaching has been demanded to be intercultural teaching which means that cultural teaching should be integrated in language teaching as well as language competence, in English language teaching for instance. On the ground that the importance of foreign language teaching and learning is largely for purpose of international communication, and intercultural knowledge has crucial role in successful communication. Therefore, this paper reports on a qualitative case study which investigates two English teachers’ practice of integrating intercultural competence in English language teaching at college level. Specifically, this paper provides analysis of intercultural components embedded in teachers’ practice of intercultural integration in teaching English. The data were collected through observation, and unstructured observational notes were employed. The observational data were analysed following sub-processes, are familiarizing, reducing, identifying and classifying, interpreting, and presenting. The result indicates that both English teachers’ understand the objective of English language teaching that teaching language is also teaching the culture as it is showed in their teaching process an intercultural integration, which includes some intercultural components such as attitudes, knowledge, and skills.

scholarly journals Improving Creative Writing for Young Learners using CTL Post COVID 19

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Elli Setiyo Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Real World ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Contextual Teaching

The research aims to implement contextual teaching and learning approach in writing skill which is integrated in the lesson plan. The methodology conducted in the study is a case study taken in one of elementary school in Indonesia. The purpose is to investigate the improvement of students’ writing skill post covid 19.  There are five strategies of contextual teaching and learning approach, namely relating, experiencing, applying, cooperating, and transferring (REACT). The implementation is providing practices on descriptive and narrative writing. The assessment is the learning project related to real-world context and writing story telling. The results of the research are expected to give impact for enhancing the students’ creative writing, to provide learning process which is practical in real world situation, and to assign a lesson plan which is relevant with the current development in English language teaching. Keywords: contextual teaching and learning, creative writing, lesson plan, REACT

scholarly journals Integrating Local Cultural Animated Video as a Media in English Language Teaching to Promote Students’ Character in Gorontalo Elementary Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Indah Wardaty Saud ◽  
Yurni Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
English Learning ◽  
School Students

Attractive media for English as a foreign language at the elementary school needs to be elaborated with the cultural values. The aim is for students to have a fun and authentic learning experience because the media contains culture that they often see and even engage in. At the end, learning media integrated with local cultural values when applied to English learning in elementary schools can support the process of promoting students' characters.This study aims to find an animated video design with local cultural values in English language learning to promote the character of elementary school students in Gorontalo. It focuses on exploring students and English teachers perception towards integrating local cultural animated video in English language teaching media to promote students’ character. This study uses Research and Development design in the form of need analysis with mixed method data analysis. The respondents involve are 250 students in fifteen elementary schools in Gorontalo. The researcher uses questionnaire and interview to collect the data. The result shows that the students agreed that integrating animated video in English language teaching and learning are an interesting idea. They preferred choosing traditional games and songs as topics to be learnt with English. Meanwhile, the English teachers believed that the implementation of media or learning resources with Gorontalo cultural values can promote the character of elementary school students. However, teachers were unfamiliar with cultural integration in learning English. They have never found a media or source of learning English that covers Gorontalo culture. The culture that is considered necessary to be integrated together with English learning is Gorontalo tourism spots, and traditional dances and games.

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