Developing Teachers’ Core Competencies For Teaching English to Young Learners Through Fun English Club  

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Supriyanti, Nury

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 346-353.
Topik: TEYL; teacher; competence; Fun English Club
Fulltext: hal 346.pdf (10.99MB)

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Teachers are the most important components in the implementation of primary English or English for young learners. Harmer (2007:82 – 83)) emphasizes the need for teachers with specific skills and competencies. In addition, Linse (2005:2) believes that they should be able to provide care needed by the young learners so that they can grow and develop well. In the aspect of the instruction, the teachers should also have the capacity to facilitate developmentally appropriate teaching. A training for such teachers should be designed in a such a way that it can equip them with necessary skills, insight and awareness for doing the very demanded jobs. This paper discusses the experiences of the English Education Study Program of Yogyakarta State University in preparing such teachers. The training has been established and developed since 1994 and has been going through some curriculums. It also has experienced different government’s educational policies on the English provision for elementary schools. The latest policy states that English is only an extracurricular program for elementary schoolchildren. It implies that for providing teaching children in real experiences another creative plan needs to be designed. Students interested in learning to teach English to young learners are assigned to set up an English school for young leaners so that they can have real experiences in establishing, managing, teaching, evaluating the school. The training program has also covered all aspects needed for the teacher students for such a job. In our experiences, we have established a program called Fun English Club which is planned, managed and evaluated by the teacher students

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