JOURNAL MAKING IN INSTRUCTION (TEACHING), RESEARCH EXTENSION WORK

Judith F. Balares-Salamat (Dr. Judith F. Balares-Salamat is currently a student of Bahasa Indonesia (Kelas Dasar) at INCULS, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Gadjah Mada University. She is a SEASREP grantee. She finished her PhD Comparative Literature minor in Cultural Anthropolog)

Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
Vol 6, No 1: July 2006, Nationally Accredited

This paper focuses on the advantageous use of journal in instructional, extension and research work. With the current trend of teachers involvement in three --- instruction, extension, and research --- sometimes four (including production) functions, journal-making process can never be underestimated. From simple reflective statements and insights to more analytical and in-depth viewpoints regarding the events of the day, or the fieldworks data gathered in the field, until the process of writing and re-writing the actual output, journal making helps attain what is called as intersubjectivity and multidisciplinarity. This makes a teacher, community/ extension worker, or researcher, a participant to the whole process of development.