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Teaching English as a Foreign Language February 16, 2008

Posted by romlansyukur in Final Assaignment.
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Subject : Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Lecturer : Mr. Hartoyo, M.A, Ph.D.

Student : Romlan Syukur

Part A:

 

1. What is your opinion about the application of communicative approach in Indonesia?
2. What is your opinion about correcting students directly?
3. What is your opinion about implicit and explicit grammar?
4. Explain more detail about some theories that underlies the important of grammar!

 

Answer :

1. My opinion about the application of Communicative approach in Indonesia

First positive side the concept of Communicative approach especially for the English teachers in Indonesea. They are able to teach English be more meaningful , more contectual and interesting. Communicative approach make many teachers change their the way to teach. They have to give as real and natural information as possible. The impact are the students become more challenging to learn English, Many students are happy when they have to practice English with their teachers and friends.

Second negative side of the implementation of Communicative Appraoch in Indonesia are There are still many teachers not teaching with this approach. The factors are 1. Lack of supporting community which many of them speak Bahasa Indonesia in and out side of the class room 2. insufficiency of the native speakers with whom the students can communicate in English 3. Lack of support learning materials which give a native like model for the students in learning English 4. the focus of the English teaching in Indonesia is still directed to equip students with reading ability ( Hartoyo,2006, 17)

1. My opinion about correcting students directly

First , as a teacher we must know appropriately when we have to lead our students to the right tract and when we have to teach them to know something new and even we have to know when we can play together. Therefore as a good teacher we must be able to create or make a good relationship with our students , if out students make something wrong or make some mistakes they will trust us to correct them. So correcting students directly is no problem as far as the teachers have a good relationship and reasons. The second , the teachers must know the condition and situation, when they have to correct it, and don’t forget to ask permition too, before correcting the mistakes

1. My opinion about implicit and explicit grammar are

First , Both of them are correct , we as the teachers have to know when we have teach the grammar implicitly and explicitly. E.g If we teach our children under 10 years olds it would be more effectively by using implicitly instruction, they will be more interested in listening story, talking about hobby, playing game etc. but if the teachers want to teach about the basic concept of English like patterns etc. it will be more effective by using explicitly grammar instruction but then the teachers have to make or design teaching learning process as natural as possible.

Second, Explicitly grammar instruction will be more acceptable for teaching adult that they are able to differentiate between correct and wrong grammar, adult learn something through consious process while children learn something through subconsious .

 

1. Some thories underlies the important of grammar are …

First , Van Patten (1993:45) suggests that “ we should focus not on whether a role exists for grammar study in second language acquisition but rather on what kind of grammar instruction would be useful to learners.

Second , Scott, 1989 , which assumes that students will automatically and naturally develop the grammatical competency they require to perform their communicative competence.

Third, Celce-Murcia (1991) suggests that grammatical instruction might need to be presented although she agrees with Canale and Swain (1980) that communicative competence should also be taken into account and should include four competences : sociolinguistic competence, discourse competence, linguistic competence, and strategic competence.

Forth, Hartoyo, M.A, Ph.D. suggests that for the teaching of English as a foreign Language in Indonesia since Indonesian students need to learn English grammar to support their academic studies , and since the findings show that knowledge of grammar contributes significantly to improvement in the use of those features in writing, it is recommended that grammar should be taught along with communicative skills.