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PERCEPTIONS AND ATTITUDES OF INDONESIAN TEACHERS TOWARD COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING Gina Selvira Yanti
Jurnal Ilmiah Spectral Vol 5, No 1 (2019): Jurnal Ilmiah Spectral
Publisher : STBA Pontianak

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47255/spectral.v5i1.33

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This review paper described some documented researches on teachers’ perception and attitudes toward Communicative Language Teaching into some patterns: teachers’ understanding toward CLT concept theoretically, teachers’ implementation of CLT in classrooms, and teachers’ challenges/ and difficulties in implementing CLT. Instead of taking the existing researches globally, this paper took the ones within the scope of Indonesia in the publication year 2013-2019; therefore, there were eight researches in total. The results showed that most of teachers were favorable to the CLT concepts and most of them showed that they understand CLT, theoretically. In contrast, in practical, many of teachers had been found to be not consistent with what they had claimed about CLT concept; it can be related to some challenges and / difficulties they had been shared such as lack of teaching training, having over workload; students’ tendency not to use the target language; big class size, and grammar- based examination. These research reports focused on their own context of their teaching places, thus, the cultures of each setting may affect their perceptions and attitudes toward CLT. This review paper results hopefully can be a good reference for teachers, lecturers in their next researches related to the topic. Moreover, for the decision-makers to be able to take into consideration from some challenges that teachers had been shared into the better next decision or solution to solve it.
Communicative Language Teaching: The Perceptions of English Teachers in Mempawah Hilir Gina Selvira Yanti
Jurnal Ilmiah Spectral Vol 3, No 1 (2017): Jurnal Ilmiah Spectral
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47255/spectral.v3i1.14

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It is undeniable fact that English strengthens its role as international language day by day. In the response to this phenomenon, the Indonesian Ministry of Education has been trying to increase the quality of the education system since years ago; one of them is the changes of curriculum and its teaching approaches. Among many curricula that had been adapted in Indonesia, it is believed that communicative approach or communicative language teaching has mostly adapted in more than two changes of curricula. Therefore, the English teachers of Indonesia are assumed to be familiar with this teaching approach. The research had been done to 18 English teachers of junior high school level in Mempawah Hilir. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to review the results of an investigation about their perceptions in relation to their understanding on CLT principles, and their challenges in implementing CLT. Teachers’ perceptions itself is considered important because it reflects teachers classroom practices. By using cross-sectional descriptive survey research design, the data were derived from questionnaire and classroom observation checklist. It showed that, theoretically, the teachers had good understanding on the CLT principles. Unfortunately, in contrast, it did not reflect in their teaching practices. This phenomenon was caused mostly by some challenges identified from the questionnaire, for instance, big class size and student’s low English proficiency. In short, based on the results, it is hoped that this result can be one of references in making education/curriculum policy in the future.