Hidayati, Arini Nurul
Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta

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Falling into Culturist Trap: Practice of Othering in An Indonesian English Language Classroom Hidayati, Arini Nurul
Jurnal Penelitian Humaniora Vol 19, No 1: Februari 2018
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta

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This paper illustrates my own teaching experience perceiving Kartini, my ‘Central Java’ student, who has different background of culture in the class. How I noticed her is part of impact on how my English teachers used to notice me. This is due to a belief that the capability of teachers to ‘overlook the significance of their past experience’ is one of the elements in shaping their present and future attitude in teaching and learning (Jalongo and Isenberg, 1995). Therefore, a narrative analysis which investigates nonnarative data through narration (Bamberg, 2012; Benson, 2014)  is presented to illustrate the concept of the major hindrance in communication in the way of overgeneralizing, stereotyping, and reducing the students with something different or less than they are under the four constituents; stereotype, prejudice, culturalism, and essentialism (Holliday, 2010). The data inform that I once viewed my student in terms of difference from myself. Thus, I was misled by my own preconceptions and have fallen into the trap of Othering.