Jurnal Teknik Sipil Terapan
Vol 1 No 2 (2019): JTST, e-ISSN 2714-7843

CLT in ESL and EFL Context: A Challenge to Civil Engineering Teachers in Indonesia

Endah P Haryono (Politeknik Negeri Manado)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2019

Abstract

Characteristic and Principle of the communication approach to language learning andteaching has given appropriate and positive strategies in order to produce student’s ability incommunicative competence. One of its positive principles of this approach is students learnEnglish not in order to know the language rules but in order to use it in communication.However it can be said that this approach only gives specific advantages to ESL countries butnot for EFL context. It is because there are many EFL teachers such as English teachers inIndonesia still encounter difficulties in applying CLT in their classroom. This article givesessential solutions in order to encounter this issue towards teaching English in civil engineeringclassroom in Indonesia as EFL country. It is said that in order to accomplish the success inlanguage teaching, English teachers in civil Engineering should improve their quality incommunicative competence as well as their teaching strategy to combine and implement intocommunicative classroom approach, syllabus and material based on learner needs and interestin authentic situation.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jtst

Publisher

Subject

Civil Engineering, Building, Construction & Architecture Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Social Sciences Transportation

Description

Jurnal Teknik Sipil Terapan (JTST) is peer-reviewed journal published by Civil Engineering Department, Manado State Polytechnic, Indonesia, with aims to promote knowledges and to publish high-quality articles in the field of Civil Engineering focusing on Structural on Building Construction, Road and ...