How should we prepare a professional English Teachers that are suitable for the context of Maluku? (MID TERM TEST)

Name : Haidar Apriliawaty Hamisi

Student Number : 2015-36-028

English Education Study Program - Faculty of Teachers Education and Training - Pattimura University

How should we prepare a professional English Teachers that are suitable for the context of Maluku?

Computer class Mid-Term Test – MS Word

Before we decide how we should prepare for professional English teachers for maluku, we should consider on the learning ways from Maluku. Most people in Maluku don’t really care for education, and most of the teachers are just teach, not educate their students. Sometimes, as a student, we also have a bad attitude although unconcously and it will make the teachers’ intend to teach is already gone.

The Government has decided 2013 curriculum for our education. In my opinion, it is really a good curriculum because the teacher involves the students to be independent in learning, not just rely on the teachers who will always teach and teach. For example the teacher will gave the students an assignment that they should explain and find out their material by theirselves.

There are several methods that the teachers can use to teach English to their students and in my opinion, these are the best one. Such as: Grammatical, Aural, and Direct Approach. Grammatical approach can only work if the instructor speaks the first language of the students in addition to English, because much of it is based on the teacher’s ability to translate (C. Paris, 2014). But, the important thing from this method is Vocabulary, because as a student they must need a lot of words to interpret their own English grammar example.

Aural Methods is the best for the younger students, this process is focused on the natural way to learn a language, which is by hearing it. Because the first thing that we can do in our live is hearing before we learn to read and write. Teachers might give the students an object that can associate the words that they use when hearing. Then, they will be instructed to speak the word by their own sentences.

While in Direct Approach, the material is presented orally with action and pictures. This method is preferred of exercise of a questions based on the dialogue that spoken first. Grammar is taught inductively while Verbs are used systematically. Culture is considered an important aspect of learning the language (Krashen, 1983).

Whatever we teach the students, we cannot guarantee that the students will catch our taught because it is depending also on their willing and their attitude when they learn.

Reference List

Krashen, S.D. , & Terrell, T.D. (1983). The Natural Approach. Hayward, CA: The Alemany Press.  

     Citation in text : (Krashen, 1983).

Paris, C. (2014). 5 English Teaching that work. Retrieved from https://blog.udemy.com/english-teaching-methods/

     Citation in text : (Paris, 2014).

“Grammatical approach can only work if the instructor speaks the first language of the students in addition to English, because much of it is based on the teacher’s ability to translate (C. Paris, 2014).”