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THEMATIC INVESTIGATIONS WITH INDONESIAN EFL PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS: FROM DESCRIPTIONS TO SOCIAL CRITIQUES AND BEYOND Joseph Ernest Mambu
Indonesian JELT Vol 5, No 1 (2009): Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching Vol. 5 no. 1 May 2009
Publisher : Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya

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This paper aims at illuminating EFL educators with the application of “thematic investigation” as endorsed by a Critical Pedagogy exponent, Paulo Freire. The investigation involved 14 EFL pre-service (student) teachers and me as a teacher-researcher. In the investigation, four pictures (a McDonald’s advertisement, a beauty pageant, a crowded city, and a beggar in front of a temple) became the media for these teachers to make sense of realities. Using English as the medium of expression, these teachers suggested nuanced interpretations of the pictures. In view of various senses of “critical”, the student teachers’ interpretations represented various “breadths” and “depths” (i.e., the scope) of criticality. Knowing the scope of criticality is essential in being more aware of limits that restrict one’s views. The analyses on the generated themes will become the bases for further reflections to transcend the restrictions of one’s own perspectives. Keywords: Critical thinking; social critiques; thematic “limit-situation(s)”; problematizing practices.   
APPROPRIATIONS OF POLICIES RELATED TO L2 ACADEMIC WRITING PRACTICES IN AN INDONESIAN EFL TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM Joseph Ernest Mambu
Indonesian JELT Vol 9, No 1 (2013): Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching vol 9 no. 1 May 2013
Publisher : Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya

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The current study investigates state and local polices that regulateacademic writing and how they are appropriated in an English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) teacher education program in Indonesia.The significance of the current study lies in its affirmation to thenotion that policy appropriations are multi-layered. That is,government policies may or may not be translated into local de jureand de facto regulations, and in turn these local policies evolve asthey are used and negotiated among colleagues and/or withstudents. In an attempt to understand the layers of appropriations,interviews with four local instructors were conducted. This researchwill pave the way for further praxes to provide quality academicwritinginstructions, in the light of, or regardless of, the stateregulations.Keywords: policy appropriation, second language academicwriting, publication, agency