Redesigning Instructional Media in Teaching English of Elementary Schools’ Students: Developing Minimum Curriculum  

Oleh:

Nurhayati, Dwi Astuti Wahyu

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 61st TEFLIN International Conference : English Language Curriculum Development: Implications for Innovations in Language Policy and Planning, Pedagogical Practices, and Teacher Professional Development, Solo, 7 - 9 October 2014, page 927-931 .
Topik: redesign; instructional; media; teaching; elementary students
Fulltext: REDESIGNING INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA IN TEACHING ENGLISH.pdf (8.1MB)

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This qualitative research reports the result of a study on redesigning instructional media in teaching English. It focuses mainly on what, how and why teachers redesign instructional media in teaching English of elementary school’students. Techniques of collecting data include observation non participation, and interview then collected data are analyzed by using qualitative descriptive analysis by transcribing;analyzing; reducing; categorizing; interpreting the data. Based on research findings, redesigning curriculum considered main items including students’ need analysis and interest, need of class, their grade level, prior knowledge, the preference of learning style, audiovisual and interesting media, here and now topic, modified and adjusted instructional technique by conducting three phases; analysis, design, implementation. It could lead teachers to redesign the instructional media by accepting, discussing the students’ need to find the enjoyable media of learning English, asking to guess the vocabulary, practicing and drilling their pronunciation. The reason why they redesign it because English as minimum curriculum could be developed by moving on the teachers’ creativity and students, as extracurriculair, it should be developed and managed based on the schools’characteristics related to their vision and mission. They should understand young learners’ characteristics (Scott&Ytreberg,1990), analyze the students’need. This research will be good input for local education official to support developing curriculum and empower the elementary schools’ teachers innitiative.

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