On Pedagogical Reasoning: Towards A More Meaningful Classroom Interaction

By Puput Arfiandhani

Woodlands Special School Students                                (Photo credit: Nottingham Post – http://www.nottinghampost.com/Remarkable-revival-special-school/story-20740762-detail/story.html)

A couple of weeks ago, I got a chance visiting two schools: Woodlands Special School and Burford Primary School in the city I currently am living, Nottingham, UK. While also doing a cultural sharing, my team mates – Dario and Emma, and I were lucky enough to be able to experience a bit of how interaction happened between teacher and the students. While the student-teacher interaction outside the classroom somehow was pretty much similar with in Indonesia – tend to be generally casual, warm and friendly, but the interaction during the teaching process was quite different. It was especially when I was in Woodland special school. The students were beyond my expectation. They could easily recall what had just been taught, could creatively answer our questions on what they thought about the culture we shared, and could manage to complete the task that was the same with the one to the primary school students.

English Language Teachers in Indonesia: Reflecting Their Roles and Potentials for ELT

By : Kunto Nurcahyoko

An ELT Teacher                                                     (Photo credit: ELT Hub Indonesia)

The Importance of Reading The Trend of English in Global World

In today’s society, English has been crowned with the status of “International Language”. Although it is not the most-widely spoken language in the world –Chinese is, English is very powerful as it is used in almost every international diplomacy and business. In 2000, there were approximately 1.5 billion people speakers of English worldwide. The number’s made up of 329 million English native speakers, 430 million speakers of English as second language, and 750 million speaker of English as a foreign language (Crystal, 2003).

Not to mention, the expanding role of English in others field such as economics, media, education, tourism, and communication has also shaped the status of English as it is today. 80% of the world’s electronically stored information is in English. Considering the fast growth of English, especially in emerging countries such as Indonesia, it is precisely essential to take a closer look on the future of English Language Teaching and what we can do, as English teachers to better prepare our students.

Happy Indonesia National Education Day!

Indonesia National Education Day is celebrated every May 2th after the birthday of Ki Hajar Dewantara, a prominent figure in education field in Indonesia. A flag ceremony is usually held to honour the national hero as well as to commemorate the day.

Happy Indonesian National Education Day (Photo credit: ELT Hub)