ELT Echo
Vol 7, No 1 (2022): JUNE

EXAMINING PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS UNDERLYING THE DESIGN OF ENGLISH TEACHER’S LESSON PLAN AND THE TEACHING MATERIALS

Ilmi Safrizal (State University of Surabaya)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2022

Abstract

This study is correlational research that attempts to examine philosophical views underlying the design of an English teacher’s lesson plan and the teaching materials. Inferential content analysis is employed in this study to find the correlations between the teacher’s documents and the philosophical views which influence the teacher during the process of development. A face-to-face interview with the teacher is also conducted in this study to explore why the teacher uses a certain approach for teaching English and how aware the teacher is of the philosophical views underlying the approach. This study found that there are six philosophical views, including essentialism, perennialism, progressivism, socio-reconstructionism, humanism, and idealism, which influence the design of the lesson plans and the teaching materials. However, although those six philosophical views are implied on the teacher’s documents, essentialism is the most influencing philosophy which has a big impact on the teacher in deciding what activities are suitable for the students. Drilling activities, such as vocabulary enhancement, pronunciation practices, are happened in almost every meeting.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

eltecho

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

ELT Echo is published twice a year i.e on June and December by the Department of English Language Teaching, IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon. It welcomes a wide range of topics in the area of English Language Teaching particulalry in English as Foreign Language (EFL) context, which the focus ranging from ...