GENRE-BASED APPROACH AND PRE SERVICE TEACHERS IN ELT: A PERSPECTIVE

This paper aims to portray the implementation of Genre based Approach (henceforth GBA) in English Language Teaching context in Indonesia. The emphasize of the paper is on GBA as a new concept when it is first introduced as a new curriculum  in Indonesian education system and how it gives impact to Indonesian curriculum development. GBA, which is highly influenced by Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics highlights the process of learning as opposed to the result of learning. Thus, the description on GBA implementation is expected to give different perspective in ELT in Indonesia

MENTOR COACHING TO HELP PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS IN DESIGNING AN EFFECTIVE LESSON PLAN

Abstract: This paper investigates how mentor coaching, which is intended to prepare preserviceteachers of English as a Foreign Language in facing their teaching practices, help themdesign lesson plans. A lesson plan, as Farrell (2002) stated, is a collection or a summary of ateacher’s thoughts about what will be covered during a lesson. This means that before comingto the teaching process, a teacher should prepare systematic steps to be conducted in a class inorder to reach the objective of a lesson. However, most pre-service teachers are confused withthe designing process of lesson plan that is how to articulate the government curriculum intooperational details. For example, they do not know which activities to include in the lessonplan, and they do not understand how to determine indicators or “enabling objectives” (Brown,2007) for assessing students’ achievement in the lesson. Therefore, mentor coaching is seen asone of alternatives in helping pre-service teachers. Mentor coaching, as Nolan (2007, cited inZepeda, 2012, p. 165) said, is a “structured process whereby an experienced person introduces,assists, and supports a less-experienced person (the protege) in a personal and professionalgrowth process.” In the context of this study, the experienced person refers to the teacher/thelecturer in the class and the less-experienced person in this context refers to the pre-serviceteachers or student teachers. This study used action research as the method. Furthermore, thedata were obtained by distributing questionnaire and collecting pre-service teachers’ lessonplans as well as conducting an interview. In addition, after having designed a lesson plan withmentor coaching technique, the pre-service teachers were asked to reflect the process in orderto gain their perception about the mentor coaching technique. It is important to find whatthey think and feel about this mentor coaching process because it is expected that this type ofcoaching will be useful in helping pre-service teachers to write an effective lesson plan

REFLECTIVE PRACTICE AND SELF-IDENTITY AS PARTS OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: A SURVEY IN A TERTIARY LEVEL

This study aims at revealing the knowledge of the teachers on the concept of reflective practice and self-identity as parts of professional development in an EFL higher education context. Reflective practice is closely related to the idea of learning from experience (Thomson & Pascal, 2012) and ithas been an important activity since 1980s in western education. Unfortunately, it has not been treated as one in Asian context, let alone in Indonesia. Despite the debate on the constant definition of reflective practice, investigating the understanding of the concept is yet thought-provoking. Thus, this study involves some teachers in tertiary level from both state and private universities in Indonesia. The data in this study are gained through distributing a Likert scale questionnaire on the knowledge of Reflective Practice and self-identity and an interview as a follow up data collection method in order to have thorough information. The result of the study shows that almost all teachers are aware of both concepts and their benefits for their professional development. Key words: Reflective practice, Professional development, Self-identit

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MENTOR COACHING ON PREPARING TEXT-BASED LESSON PLAN BY STUDENT TEACHERS

This paper will present the result of the study aimed at investigating the impact of online mentor coaching strategy on the process of making Text-Based Lesson Plan by student teachers using Edmodo. The participants were students who are going to conduct field practice in the following year. The study was descriptive qualitative in nature and the data were obtained from the observation, documents (students’ lesson plan) and interview. The result showed that the student teachers responded positively on the use of Edmodo because of its flexibility. They prefer consulting through Edmodo because it enhances their confidence and their final Lesson Plan can be implemented well during the micro teaching

INDONESIAN TERTIARY STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE USE OF LOCAL CULTURE VS TARGET CULTURE READING MATERIALS IN ENGLISH READING CLASS

This paper aims at portraying Indonesian tertiary students’ attitudes towards the use of local and target culture reading texts in English reading classes with regard to today’s role of English. It has been widely recognized that today’s role of English is as an international language (EIL) and as a lingua franca (ELF). Regarding this international role of English language, ideally teaching and learning English should be matched with appropriate pedagogical approach, in this case, EIL pedagogy approaches. In other words, teaching and learning EIL should be different from teaching and learning of any other second or foreign languages. Since Indonesia is categorized as an EFL country, it is interesting to find out whether this issue has an impact on ELT practices such as English reading class in this country. The subjects of the study are first year English Education Department students. The data were gained by delivering Likert scale questionnaire to the students on their attitude towards the reading materials given to them in one semester. In addition to this, an interview was conducted to verify the data and gain further information. The findings revealed that in general they show positive attitude to both local culture and target culture reading materials, with the majority of them prefer reading target culture reading materials. Furthermore, a considerable number of the students also acknowledge the importance of the use international culture along with English language teaching

Reflective practice on lesson planning among EFL teacher educators

As an important part of teacher professional development, a reflective practice started to flourish in the 1980s. Along with it, many scholars have researched reflective practice in various fields, one of which is English Language Teaching. The present study explores reflective practice by teacher educators in a doctoral program, focusing on how they reflect on the journey of planning their lessons ranging from their earliest teaching years up to their future hope. Narrative inquiry with a multiple case study design is employed in this study. The data in this study, which included both narrative and non-narrative data, are collected by using narrative frames and interviews. The data are then coded and analyzed using thematic analysis. The results of the study show how learning from experience in lesson planning helps teacher educators improve their teaching performance

TWO FACES OF MASCULINITY IN AXE CHOCOLATE ADVERTISEMENT

Abstract: An advertisement has never been departed from an ideology. Although it occurs implicitly, an ideology in an advertisement is able to make someone believe in particular value of life. This study tries to reveal the ideology both in positive meaning as a belief system which marks certain group and in negative meaning as a false consciousness. Besides that, this study also tries to reveal the way of illustrating the ideology that lies within the Axe Chocolate advertisement. In order to obtain the ideology, each scene in the Axe Chocolate advertisement is analyzed based on Barthes’ model of sign. Then, to find the way of illustrating the ideology, the connotative meaning of mass media codes applied in the advertisement, i.e. fashion codes, color codes, non-verbal codes and technical codes is analyzed. The result of this study shows that masculinity appears as the negative and positive ideology because masculinity is not contradictory with Indonesian culture. However, the value of masculinity shown by the advertiser is narrowed down into the area of sexuality only. In addition to this, the way of illustrating the ideology of masculinity in sexuality area also gives negative stereotype to women, for instance by showing women as figures who like to advertise their body through wearing fashion which exposes women’s body.   Keywords: ideology, advertisement, semiotics, mass media code