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INTEGRATING TARGET CULTURE IN EFL CLASS Tarwiyah, Siti
VISION Vol 3, No 1 (2014): Journal Vision
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AbstractLanguage is a part of culture. Language and culture are formulatedin the forms of concepts, propositions, memory, and inferencesor it can be seen through behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutionsand all other products of human work and thought. Eachspeech community has different ways of communicating information,ideas, attitudes, and standpoints. They have different normsof speech. Breaking the norms of speech results in communicationconstrains, misunderstanding between interlocutors. Teachers ofEFL class should have big concern in integrating target languageculture of the language being taught into their learning. This waystimulates students’ awareness of the target language culture whichlater results in effi cient global communication using the target language.Key Words: language, culture, cross-cultural communication, integrate,EFL class
THE APPROPRIACY OF ASSESSMENT IN THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXT BOOKBASED ON THE 2013 CURRICULUM Tarwiyah, Siti
VISION Vol 3, No 2 (2014): Journal Vision
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AbstractAssessment is one of important means to identify the success of learning process, since it gives information about students com- petence, which is in line with learning aims or targetted competence. Information from assessment may be used as the consideration to set the policy of teaching learning process.   The 2013 curriculum emphasizes more on authentic assess- ment, encompassing knowledge, skill, and attitude. Through this assessment, good attitude building as one of the priorities of the curriculum may be realized. cognitive and psychomotoric domains variedly in the student book. But affective domain, as the Drst pri- ority of  the curriculum has not been provided by instrument in the student book and clear instruction on how to proceed it in the teacher book.   Key words: assessment, authentic, affective, cognitive, psychomo- toric