scholarly journals CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF STRENGTHENING CHARACTER EDUCATION IN EFL CLASSROOM

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Ike Purnamasari ◽  
Nuraeni .
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Character Education ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Classroom Observation ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Efl Teacher ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Strengthening Character Education is an educational program in schools to strengthen students' character with moral values. The Indonesian government launched this program to faced students’ moral degradation. As the country that used English as a Foreign Language (EFL), this study investigates the challenges faced by a teacher in the implementation of Strengthening Character Education in the EFL classroom and to know teacher strategy to change the challenges become opportunities. This study conducted a case study of the EFL teacher in Junior High School. The data collection consisted of classroom observation, interview, documentation, and data triangulation. The findings gained, the teacher has implemented several character values in the EFL classroom activities. The teacher faced challenges coming from the students, learning situations, and learning materials. For the opportunities, there was classroom management and being a role model.

scholarly journals Classroom Management: Glocalized Contexts

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Manda Pokharel ◽  
Mani Ram Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Work Group ◽  
Classroom Observation ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Efl Teacher

This research based article discusses on issues and practices of classroom management from the local perspectives. It is based on the context of public school of Nepal. The participant is an EFL teacher of public school in Kathmandu, teaching in middle school and secondary level there. The classroom management practices in the EFL teacher’s classes are seen using classroom observation tool, in her classes of both the levels for a week using qualitative framework. The findings show the traditional practice still dominating the classroom activities. Therefore the article is based on the issues of classroom management being specific to the seating arrangements, discipline, peer work, group work, space, presentation, and time management in the public school where classroom observation has been done.

scholarly journals An Analysis of an EFL Teachers' Guide: A Case Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Nazari
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Policy ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Language Policies ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Teaching Objectives ◽  
Efl Teachers

This paper is an attempt to analyse one of the documents which may affect the classroom activities of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers, namely teachers' guides. It also explores the context at which the document is aimed and critiques how EFL teachers are advised to teach as well as how EFL is taught. As such, the paper stands where critical discourse analysis and language policy come together in the study of language policies in education. The teachers' guide chosen and the analysis carried out here are not necessarily concerned with their representativeness and typicality but with the opportunity they provide to the researchers and teachers to learn about such language policy documents and how language and language teaching objectives are represented in them. The issues raised in this paper will have relevance to the EFL teachers' guides and EFL education in other contexts, as these issues are likely to be true of other EFL milieux.

scholarly journals MADRASAH EDUCATION SYSTEM PROTOTYPE OF CHARACTER EDUCATION MODEL (Case Study at MTs and MA Assalam Kudus 2018)

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 351
Author(s):  
Supaat Supaat ◽  
Taufikin Taufikin
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Model Case ◽  
Education Planning ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Education Model

The issue of character education in Indonesia needs to be handled professionally from effective planning, implementation and supervision. This case study using qualitative approach with the phenomenology inductive to find a model of character education in MTs and MA NU Assalam. The technique of collecting data is done by interviews, observation and documentation. Data is analyzed through stages <em>data collection, data reduction, data display</em> and <em>conclusion.</em> The results of this study indicate that: (1) the concept of character education in Assalam MTs and MA NU is based on environmental integration by developing academic religious characters namely religious, sincerity, exemplary, and loving the goodness of honesty, discipline, responsibility, communicative, and self control ( 2) System character education planning is based on a systemic-integrative model. The system is implemented in a way formation of a conducive environment (<em>bi'ah</em>), <em>habitualization</em> (habituation), <em>personification</em>, a model of a person's kyai (<em>role model</em>) behavior, integration of extracurricular and intra-curricular activities and programs. The surveillance system uses internal control management through system orderly and book <em>attitude</em> , and external through <em>home</em> <em>visit</em> . Based on the results of this study, it is a concept in the form of <strong>a character education model</strong> <strong>based on</strong> <strong>environmental</strong> <strong>integration,</strong> <strong><em>Role Model</em>,</strong> <strong>personification, and habitualization.</strong>

scholarly journals Foreign Language Anxiety in Student’s Speaking and Writing Skills

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-79
Author(s):  
Dede Rohadi Fajri
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Classroom Observation ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Language Class

The objective of this research was on the level of Foreign Language Anxiety that experienced by students. In this research, the researcher was use the Qualitative research as the method in implementing case study. The sources of data were 30 students of the second semester of Banten Jaya University. For collecting data that used in this study include classroom observation, questionnaires and interview. The questionnaire used to obtain specific information data was gathered from the participants by FLCAS of Horwitz et all (1986). From the result of FLCAS questionnaire, there were 10 students who felt very anxious with percentage 33.33%, 8 students felt anxious with the percentage 26.67%, 8 students felt mildly anxious with the percentage 26.67%, 4 students felt relaxed with the percentage 13.33% and there was no student who felt very relaxed. Then, the result of WAT questionnaire were 7 students felt very anxious with percentage 23.33%, 8 students felt anxious with the percentage 26.67%, 9 students felt mildly anxious with the percentage 30%, 6 students felt relaxed with the percentage 20% and there was no student who felt very relaxed. Based on the findings of the present study, several conclusions can be made: First, students’ anxiety in speaking showed that the students never felt quite sure of themselves when they were speaking in foreign language class. Second, students’ anxiety in writing above showed that most of students avoided writing in English.

scholarly journals Mobile Devices Applied in Self-Studying English as a Foreign Language Among Non-Native Students in Vietnam and Japan

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (09) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Thuy Thi Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Yukawa Takashi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Learning Tools ◽  
Technology Learning ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Lesson Content ◽  
Study Participants ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

<p class="Affiliation"><strong>Abstract – </strong>In the era of technology, learning can be supported with mobile devices inside and outside of the classroom. In the hope of taking advantage of technology advances, teachers worldwide have integrated technologies into teaching to effectively deliver lesson content and address students’ needs. However, few non-native learners are exposed to mobile devices to optimize self-studying English outside the classroom. Thus, the present paper conducts a case study to look into mobile devices’ applications to enhance self-studying English as a foreign language. The study participants included 26 Japanese and Vietnamese learners divided into two groups over 15 weeks. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to analyze and compare the results with R-Studio statistics software. The present study sought to encourage collaboration and foster the  autonomy of learners with mobile devices’ assistance as supporting language self-learning tools. The findings of the present research will be discussed in terms of the efficiency and potentials of mobile devices as supportive tools outside of classroom activities among Vietnamese and Japanese students as non-native learners of English.</p>

scholarly journals The Strategies of Novice Teachers’ in the Large Class Management

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
Anisha Ayu Anindya ◽  
Ajeng Putri Nur Anisa ◽  
Akmal
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Large Class ◽  
Novice Teachers ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Class Management ◽  
The Subject

novice teachers, strategies, large class.This research reports which aimed to analyze strategies of novice teachers used in the large classroom management. This work is a comprehensive case study covering all teachers who play an important role in their classroom management. The case study on this research focused on Junior High School novice teachers in Yogyakarta. The researcher choose this school because it has large class that can support the researcher in collecting the data. The subject of this research consists of five novice teachers. The data was gathered through observation and interview. This study indicated the perspectives of the novice teachers in large classroom.The result showed that the teachers mostly divide or organize the students by grouping them, monitoring them to check students’ work and to keep the class calm, give them positive punishment to students who misbehave, and using some teaching method to make students active during the teaching and learning process.

scholarly journals REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS GIVEN BY THE TEACHER IN TEACHING ENGLISH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN INDONESIAN CONTEXT

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Nurvauzati Putri ◽  
Refnaldi Refnaldi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Nonverbal Cues ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Stimulated Recall ◽  
Stimulated Recall Interviews ◽  
Learning English

Classroom management is certainly concerned with behavior to create and maintain an effective learning experience. The effective classroom management includes the give of rewards and punishments. Therefore, giving rewards and punishments is important in order to increase students’ motivation in EFL classroom. The purpose of this study is to analyze the types of reward and punishment as well as looking at the possible reasons that use by the teachers. This study employed qualitative research method. The subjects of this research are 3 teachers from Junior high school in Padang. The data were collected through the observation sheets and stimulated recall interviews (SRI). The findings show that (1) teachers mostly used the type of praise (49%) in giving spoken rewards and also teachers mostly used the type of nonverbal cues (54%) in giving spoken punishments. (2) The reasons that teachers give spoken rewards are to enhance students’ enthusiasm in learning English and to increase students’ motivates in learning process. Meanwhile, the reasons that teachers give spoken punishments are to change students’ behavior and to make students afraid to repeat the same mistakes during learning English. Therefore, it can be concluded that the types of spoken rewards and spoken punishments that mostly used by teachers are the first types are Praise and Use nonverbal cues. As a result, there are several reasons teachers give spoken rewards and spoken punishments to the students. 

scholarly journals Professional Teachers’ Perspective toward an Effective Teaching Technique: A Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Nurus Sobakh
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
Effective Teaching ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Field Note ◽  
Teaching Technique ◽  
Professional Teacher ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Teaching Learning

This study aims to describe the teachers’ perspective about the effective teaching technique to teach young leaner in Pasuruan Indonesia. The research design was qualitative case study design. This study tried to investigate the effective teaching technique to teach young learner. The teaching process had been implemented by the teachers. In this study, the teachers would describe their teaching learning process in their classroom. The subject of this study was the professional teachers’ of junior high school in SMPN 1 Gempol and SMPN 1 Beji. The classroom was chosen based on the teacher’s approval and suggestion. The professional teachers were the teachers who had legal certificate as the educator from the government and who had taught more than ten years. The researcher collected the data from the observation sheets, field note, and teachers’ interview. The researcher found that the teachers ordered the steps of teaching technique from the beginning until the end effectively and systematically. The teachers had fulfilled the criteria of professional teacher. They had a better classroom management skill and ordered various kinds of teaching activities and practices in their classroom splendidly.

scholarly journals The Application of Differentiated Instruction to a High School Student With Dyslexia in the German Language A Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Makrina Zafiri ◽  
Vassiliki Vakalopoulou ◽  
Vassiliki Pliogou
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Differentiated Instruction ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Before And After

In recent years, dyslexia has become an important issue in the field of foreign language teaching and learning. In this research we will explore dyslexia in connection to teaching and learning a foreign language. More particularly, in this research, we will be probing into the teaching of German as a foreign language. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of the application of Differential Instruction, the application of the Grammar –Translation Method, the Audio-Visual Method, the Communicative Approach to language teaching as well as the Multisensory Method to a Greek student with dyslexia. The girl is in the first year of junior high school and is being taught German as a foreign language at school. The research method, which was applied, focused on qualitative research through the use of semi - structured interviews. This research is also a case study. Action research was conducted, for the needs of this small-scale research, through ten differentiated instruction lessons which were taught to a student with dyslexia. The student and her mother were the major sources of data collection. More particularly, the semi - structured interviews were conducted before and after the implementation of differentiated instruction with the student and her mother. We initially attempted to collect information through semi-structured interviews, on the student's family profile, and after conducting the ten lessons, we tried to verify the effectiveness of the approaches and methods which were applied. The results of this research showed that the effectiveness of differentiated instruction was immense as the student’s performance improved in the foreign language.

scholarly journals “COVID-19 is an Opportunity to Rediscover Ourselves”: Reflections of a Novice EFL Teacher in Central America

RELC Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003368822098177
Author(s):  
Thomas S C Farrell ◽  
Connie Stanclik
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Reflective Practice ◽  
Central America ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Efl Teacher ◽  
Teachers Beliefs ◽  
Efl Teachers

This article presents a case study that examined the principles and practices of one novice English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher at a prominent English language institution in Central America. This qualitative study sought to contribute to the discussion of the perceived interdependent influences of EFL teachers’ thoughts, identities, and behaviors through five stages of self-reflection in Farrell’s framework for reflective practice. The EFL teacher engaged in conscious reflection to subject their beliefs to critical analysis and interpretation expressed through their philosophy, principles, theory, practice, and beyond practice. Overall, the findings confirm that reflections in all five stages are connected to several common themes, but simultaneously reveal a complex relationship between the teacher’s stated principles and actual practice. The discussion explores potential reasons for convergence and divergence in teachers’ beliefs and classroom actions, concluding that the results correlate with previous research in the field of language education and teacher reflection.

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