PRAGMATIC INDICATORS OF THE USE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF UZBEKISTAN

2019 ◽  
pp. 10-21
Author(s):  
Ganisher RAKHIMOV
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Educational System ◽  
English Language ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
National Education ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Linguistic Behavior ◽  
Sociolinguistic Status

he purpose of this article is a comparative study of pragmatic indicators of the use of English in the educational system of Uzbekistan. The article addresses sociolinguistic and pragmatic features of the use of the English language introduced in educational system of Uzbekistan. The English language operating in Uzbekistan is analyzed through the results of field studies as well as through comparative study of the institutional and legal-normative basis of the state of the English language in the national education system. In particular, the article describes an experiment conducted on the basis of methods proposed by Roger Brown and Albert Gilman among master students of different nationalities to determine their linguistic behavior in different social conditions settings, as well as to identify cultural values of discursive activity in the implementation of the self-assessment strategy. On the basis of the results, the author raises important issues of teaching English in Uzbekistan and describes the established policy of continuous education in the Republic, concerning English as a revolutionary language. In addition, the author of the article believes that the organization of English language teaching requires taking into account the sociolinguistic status of the language, socio-psychological neutrality towards it, comparative-pragmatic and functional indicators of activity.

scholarly journals Critiquing Economic Values in English Language Teaching: Materials Problems and Critical Solutions Facing Teachers

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Neil Addison
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Student Response ◽  
Response Data ◽  
Product Placements ◽  
Western Values ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Conversation Class

This paper contends that the English language teaching industry is implicitly imbued with Western cultural values which, whilst emanating from the ideological discourse of colonialism, have now evolved into an aggressive corporate colonialism. An examination of various materials employed in ELT finds that they are saturated with market driven Western values and product placements, which, if not explicated properly, can confuse students who may come from very different schematic backgrounds (Widdowson, 1990). A more critical classroom approach is therefore advocated, where foreign English language students are encouraged to use vocabulary to critique cultural contents encountered in ELT materials, affording them the chance to engage with English more dynamically. A 2012 teaching approach is described, which sought to achieve this aim within the context of a Japanese university English conversation class. The effectiveness of this approach is then assessed and discussed through the examination of quantitative and qualitative student response data. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nelta.v18i1-2.10327   Journal of NELTA, Vol 18 No. 1-2, December 2013; 18-30

scholarly journals English Language Teaching in Islamic Education in Indonesia; Challenges and Opportunities

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Tuti Hidayati
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
National Language ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
National Education ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Western Values ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Islamic Values

The dominant use of English in every field covering politic, economic, and sosial culture these days has manifested in its gaining a special position in many countries where it is not spoken. In Indonesia, it is a foreign language officially constituted as part of national education curriculum and becomes a requirement in a number of higher education and workforce entry. Yet, ELT in Indonesia faces various constraints including, but is not limited, the anxiousness to threat the purity of Bahasa Indonesia, the national language, and the worry about liberal western values embedded in English to corrupt the youngsters moral and attitudes. Interestingly, Islamic education that maintains a vital role among Indonesians has included English alongside other secular sciences and technology as part of its curriculum in its current advancement. In this regard, the paper will show how critical Islamic education role among Indonesians is, how ELT in Indonesia has developed, what challenges it experiences, and what opportunities it posseses in the context of Indonesian Islamic Education. The paper argues that Islamic education remains the choice of the Indonesian Muslim communities as long as it is able to meet the demands of living in the globalization era while keeping the Islamic values in all the learning process. It further suggests that ELT in Indonesia needs to incorporate Islamic values and show that English learning put no threats and negative influences to Indonesian culture in general and Islamic religious values in particular.

scholarly journals Role of (Local) Culture in English Language Teaching

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 54-60
Author(s):  
Kumar Narayan Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Meaningful Context

Since language and culture have muscle and bone relationship, the existence of one in the absence of another in unthinkable. But in practice, English language teaching has paid less attention to the local culture. It is commonly believed that the insertion of foreign cultural values is not in line with local cultural values. The insertion of local culture plays vital role in promotion of nationalism, different local cultures and local cultural wisdom. Similarly, it provides cultural identity and meaningful context for learning. Therefore, the main purpose of this article is to shed light on the importance of local culture in the English language classroom. In doing so, it aims at defining culture, language, shows relationship between them and puts forth some pedagogical guidelines. Journal of NELTA, Vol. 21, No. 1-2, 2016, Page:54-60

scholarly journals Integrating Local Culture to Promote Character Education In Teaching Writing

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fenny Thresia
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Behavioral Domain ◽  
Character Building

Abstract : Character education plays an important part because it is not only about moral and value education. It has a higher significance of moral education, because it not only teaches what is right and what is wrong. More than that character education inculcate the habit (habituation) about good things and wrong, can feel (affective domain) good value and used to do (behavioral domain). So the character education linked closely associated with persistent habits practiced or implemented. It is commonly believed that the practices of English language teaching always accompanied by the insertion of foreign cultural values which are not always in line with Indonesia cultural values. The aim of this study is to improve students’ writing skill through integrating local culture material. Therefore this study focuses on designing and evaluating teaching writing material for English department students of University Muhammadiyah Metro. The result of this study shows that students have big interest and motivation in writing a text based on their local culture. The students also get moral value and character building through the material. It influences the students’ character in their daily life. Students become more polite, honest, diligent and religious.                                                                                                        Keywords: local culture, character education, writing.

DEVELOPING ENGLISH TEXTBOOK FOR MUHAMMADIYAH SCHOOL; AN IDEA TO INTEGRATE THE MUHAMMADIYAH VALUES INTO ELT

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 462
Author(s):  
Septian Dwi Cahyo ◽  
Ika Rizqi Vitasari ◽  
Sucipto Sucipto
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
National Education ◽  
English Textbooks ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Islamic Values

As the most common teaching materials, textbook always has significant impact toward English language teaching. An English textbook contains language culture, ideology, and behavior. While a common textbook is developed by mimicking the native language, it can be said that an English textbooks have secular knowledge for not integrating faith into its content. The Muhammadiyah proposed an education of coherence between knowledge and faith for better education by developing unique curriculum known as ISMUBA which is contain Islamic values and enhancing knowledge. The problem is most of teachers in the Muhammadiyah school use general English which does not meet with the Muhammadiyah education goal.This paper propose and give example of an idea to develop an English textbook for the Muhammadiyah schools by integrating the Muhammadiyah values into textbook. The textbook is developed by integrating Islamic values as base of language teaching materials. The textbook is also developed based on Kurikulum 2013 for English language teaching, so there is no contradiction of national education goal and the textbook itself. The textbook is developed in order to achieve coherence of knowledge and faith in the Muhammadiyah education

Student Teachers' Evaluation of the Motivational Strategies Used in Foreign Language Teaching

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 1269-1286
Author(s):  
Sabahattin Deniz
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Motivational Strategies

How much importance is attached to motivational strategies in foreign language teaching by student teachers and the extent to which instructors use them in their courses was investigated. The study was performed with 179 student teachers attending the English Language Teaching Department of Mugla University, Turkey. The findings revealed that these student teachers thought motivational strategies were very important for learning a foreign language, and that their instructors use some of these strategies but did not use other strategies considered to be important by the student teachers. Interviews showed that students thought studying the cultural values of the target language facilitates fluent use of that language and assists retention.

scholarly journals Readability of Reading Passages in English Textbooks and the Thai National Education English Test: A Comparative Study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thanaporn Srisunakrua ◽  
Tipamas Chumworatayee
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Difficulty Level ◽  
Practical Consideration ◽  
Computational Tool ◽  
National Education ◽  
Testing Performance ◽  
English Textbooks ◽  
Main Instrument ◽  
Different Levels

Readability has long been regarded as a significant aspect in English language teaching as it provides the overall picture of a text’s difficulty level, especially in the context of teaching and testing. Readability is a practical consideration when making decisions on materials to match a text with target readers’ proficiency. However, few studies have compared the readability levels of teaching and testing materials in terms of the difficulty of passages. The present study, therefore, aims to explore the readability levels and the linguistic characteristics of reading passages in English textbooks and the Thai National Education English Test based on three readability formulas and eight aspects of linguistic characteristics as provided by the Coh-Metrix computational tool. Two sets of corpora were generated and analyzed by using Coh-Metrix as the main instrument. The obtained data from the reading passages compiled in the English textbooks and the Thai national education English test were compared to explore the significant differences. The results revealed a mismatch in the readability levels and linguistic characteristics. Passages from the English textbooks are easier than those used in the English test. It is recommended that all stakeholders in both teaching and testing administration be aware of the different levels of readability between reading passages. More considerations should be made when preparing the teaching and testing materials because a suitable difficulty level will ensure that students receive the most benefit from the materials. Moreover, an incongruity could affect students’ learning and testing performance.

scholarly journals Developing Local Wisdom Content in West Kalimantan as English Language Teaching Material

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 244
Author(s):  
Yusawinur Barella
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Material ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
National Education ◽  
Virtuous Character ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Practice Questions

<p>English is an international language, and almost all Indonesians are aware that most of the teaching materials that use English contain foreign cultural content and topics from abroad. This will cause students to be less aware of the culture of the nation, because they are more focused on understanding foreign cultures. This problem will be incompatible with the goals of national education, which emphasize the development of national cultural identity and the formation of virtuous character, as well as the competitiveness of human resources for the Indonesian nation. This research is the development of teaching materials that aim to produce a product that will later be useful for students in improving their English language skills. In this study also discusses how a teacher can manage their teaching from rich local materials and resources into attractive teaching and learning management.As a teaching material, the product produced is English-language material, using easy-to-understand vocabulary, and is not accompanied by practice questions at the end of the reading, so that students can read calmly.</p>

National Leveling of ELT Educational Programs and Their Harmonization with European Requirements for Competitiveness on the Market - Opportunities and Challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-88
Author(s):  
Jovanka Jovanchevska
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Republic

Abstract The poor international competitiveness and the debatable language competences of the English language teaching staff educated in the Republic of Macedonia impose the need to revise the framework of higher education requirements for this profession and educational programs implemented by higher education institutions in the first place, as well as the professionalization of already existing staff. In this process, the main challenge resides in raising the operational level and standardization of the profession, followed by harmonization of national descriptors with the Common European Framework of Languages.

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