Application of Bilingual Classroom Learning to English Language Skills at SD Muhammadiyah 1 Gempol Elementary School Students

This study aims to determine the history of the bilingual class and the application of bilingual class learning at SD Muhammadiyah 1 Gempol. The research process uses data collection methods with interviews and observations. The subject of this research is the Principal of SD Muhammadiyah 1 Gempol. The focus in this research is how the history or the beginning of the bilingual class and how the implementation of bilingual class learning. Based on the results of the research, the bilingual class at SD Muhammadiyah 1 Gempol is a class that uses 2 languages in its delivery, namely Indonesian and English which were initiated by the principal at the SD and as a different brand than other schools in the Gempol area. The application of bilingual classroom learning uses 3 additional lessons using books with Cambridge Curriculum Singapore. Read, write, and count selections are made for students who will enter the bilingual class. There is a change in the requirements for bilingual classes that are carried out so that their implementation can be carried out properly.

Connecting Funds of Knowledge to Funds of Identity through a Bilingual Multimodal Project-Based Approach

This study analyzed how bilingual multimodal projects that children and families from Mexican immigrant backgrounds created together facilitated expressions of their funds of knowledge and funds of identity as part of classroom instruction. Twenty-two students and their families participated creating biliteracy family projects that integrated their lives, experiential knowledge and bilingualism into classroom learning in their first-grade bilingual classroom in a U.S. school. Drawing from a sociocultural theoretical lens informed by funds of knowledge, funds of identity and multimodal social semiotics perspectives, children’s projects depicted their transnational experiences and their close family networks of support as important funds of knowledge in their lives. Findings illustrate how children internalized these experiences as funds of identity, which included their self-expressions and identity constructions that asserted 1) their Mexican heritage and cultural simultaneity, 2) their roles to maintain family ties and contribute to the family’s well-being, and 3) their future selves and aspirations. A culturally sustaining project-based approach toward inviting and integrating children’s funds of knowledge and funds of identity can afford pedagogical advances that also foster family collaboration and challenge deficit ideologies by illuminating the depth and richness of children’s experiences, and how these are incorporated to construct their identities.

The Study Of Language Use In Bilingual Classroom Learning (Study In The MIN 1 Ciputat)

The purpose of this research is to describe the use of language by teachers and students in bilingual classroom learning at Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Negeri (MIN) I Ciputat, South Tangerang. This research emerged based on the recent rise in the number of bilingual classes, such as Indonesian, English, and Arabic, which led to the use of learning activities such as code-switching. Based on the analysis, the authors concluded that generally, teachers use two or more languages consisting of Indonesian, foreign (English and Arabic), and regional languages. The use of Indonesian dominates in learning in accordance with the national curriculum, while the use of English dominates in subjects in line with the Cambridge Curriculum. Therefore, the use of foreign languages in these two learning activities aims to familiarize students with the ability to hear and speak foreign languages. These activities tend to improve student’s linguistics competence.

Relationship between EFL young learners’ multiple intelligences and English Achievement in Bilingual School

This research set out with the aim of assessing whether EFL young learners’ multiple intelligence in bilingual school in Intensive Cambridge Program (ICP) has influence on their English proficiency as the important determining factors. The total number of participant was 76 students which consist of 38 male and 38 female students of 2rd, and 5th grade of bilingual primary school. The instrument used to elicit information for this study is multiple intelligences survey for kid by Laura Candler and Cambridge Progress Test (CPT). The result shows that there is no significant relationship between EFL young learners’ multiple intelligences and English proficiency. To find the predictor of type of multiple intelligences which have strength to effect toward English achievement also showed no significant since the probability was small. It can be caused that in bilingual classroom since English is used not only as a subject but also as classroom instruction and language in the text book for science, mathematics and English itself. So student’s’ English proficiency had been influenced not only by how teacher conduct the class based on multiple intelligences, but by other input outside English subject.

Organisers, Concept Maps, and Text Summarisation in the CLIL Classroom

Because of the implementation of bilingual programmes in Spanish primary schools, both instructors and learners need to select a methodology for efficiently transferring and summarising the managed curricular content during the teaching and learning process. Concept mapping is an ideal methodology to use in a bilingual classroom; however, primary bilingual students may experience difficulties in hierarchically organising the managed curricular content. Such lack of organisation of information causes students to create less accurate concept maps and, consequently, less accurate summaries from the content. To solve this problem in organisation, we suggest the step-by-step use of some graphic organisers, which complement concept mapping. The suggested method for the transposition process from texts to paragraphs involves handling texts, creating concept maps and transposing concept maps into paragraphs. The results are well structured and summarised paragraphs facilitating cognition. In education, this pedagogical method is usefulness to students as they try to efficiently manage the curricular information, acquire meaningful knowledge, learn self-regulation and confidently answer summative exams.