First Language Approach in EFL Learning: How Do Students and Teachers See it?  

Oleh:

Rerung, Magdalena Kartikasari Tandy

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 3, page 224-232.
Topik: bilingualism; first language approach; translanguaging
Fulltext: hal 224.pdf (10.99MB)

Isi artikel

The dominant use of English in the EFL classroom can either motivate students to increase their language skill or not. On the other hand teachers believe that whenever possible they expose English with the expectations that their students will be able use it more often however there are always language gap between L1 (Bahasa Indonesia) and L2 (English). It is believed that the existence L1 can offer another solution in language learning. As Schweers (1999) argues that the L1 involvement could help students understand the difficult concept, make them comfortable, and able to explain some new vocabulary items. Therefore, this research attempted to discover whether both students and teachers have the same belief that L1 can offer solution to understand English in better way. The questionnaires adopted from from Wafa Al Sharaeai (2012) and Mizuka Tsukamoto (2011) and interviews with the English teachers were delivered. The data were gathered from 80 students majored English Language and Culture and 14 Lecturers who teach the same major. The research question asked is How do students and teachers view the use of Bahasa Indonesia in the classroom?, result shown that 58% of the students agree that L1 should be used in their classroom whereas 38% of teachers prefer say no, and there rest they agree to use it sometimes. Both teachers and students agree that they should use L1 in the classroom whenever one could not find the word in English.

Opini Anda

Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini!

Kembali