Final Test ; Critical Reading

Summary

Student-centered, instead teacher-centered, has been a repeatedly highlighted concept in the field of education for a long time. The Ministry of Education of China in 2004 that EFL (English as a foreign language) teaching in the college should replace the traditional teacher-dominated didactic practice by a new mode featured with student-centeredness which puts more emphasis on developing students’ autonomous learning abilities and improving their language communicative competence. There are some factors that can be involved in the process of teaching and learning class such as, linguistic, pedagogy, psychology, and sociology. From the many kinds of studies, Discourse is the most heated topics in second language classroom. This term is refers to the language that the teacher and student use to communicate. TT (Teacher Talk) in the important things. But, it does not mean that it is the better especially in the current notion of teaching and learning.

Response

Indonesia already apply student center system in education. Based on article that I quoted education observer, Darmaningtyas explained some advantages and disadvantages of student center system or in Indonesia we called it Kurikulum 13 (K13). She said that one of the advantages of the 2013 curriculum is to have a clear concept of graduates to be achieved, the contents of the paradigm because the packaging of subjects becomes more meaningful in everyday life with an integrative thematic learning model and scientific approach, and also in the curriculum 2013 active learning process of students, teachers as facilitators and motivators, all aspects of life can be a source of learning, and gave birth to human learners. Beside of that, Kurikulum 2013 also has a disadvantage, the use of the National Exam (UN) as a standard evaluation of active student learning process. Because, teachers in Indonesia are generally lazy to learn and minimal curiosity.

Maybe the disadvantage can be fixed with  improving the quality or quality of teachers for the future.

Reference

Okezone News, Kelebihan & Kekurangan Kurikulum 2013 by Margaret Puspitarini, Journalis · Sabtu 08 November 2014 17:16 WIB

https://news.okezone.com/read/2014/11/08/65/1062782/kelebihan-kekurangan-kurikulum-2013

Lita Kurnianingtyas (167081)

Digital literacy of language learners in two different contexts

Digital literacy has been defined by many researchers and practitioners with similar meanings but slightly different focuses. In Martin’s (2005) terms, for example, “digital literacy is the awareness, attitude and ability of individuals to appropriately use digital tools and facilities to identify, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, analyse and synthesize digital resources, construct new knowledge, create media expressions, and communicate with others, in the context of specific life situations.

This article also discussed about the concept of digital literacy and presents a digital literacy questionnaire questions related to the use of digital technologies and the level of digital literacy skills. It also reports the results of two studies that used in digital literacy questionnaire to investigate the digital literacy level of 100 English for academic purposes (EAP) students at a university in Australia and 70 English as a foreign language (EFL) students at a university in Japan and examine factors affecting their use of digital technologies for learning English. The findings of the studies provide some insights into the students' awareness and use of digital technologies and their views of the use of digital tools and resources for language learning. Each group showed a different level of expectations and needs in their digital literacy skills with a different background and experience. It is suggested that the expectations and needs of respondents to the digital literacy questionnaire should be taken into account when the results of the digital literacy questionnaire are presented and interpreted in different contexts.

Respons

            In my opinion, learning English based on digital technology is a good way to improve English skills. Because, nowdays, every students are familiar and they really often to use their gadget. Based on this statement, we can conclude that, beside of using gadget only for their daily life, we can exploit it in education too.

Technology is important to reach "innovative school" because with using technology,accessibility, professional development / staffing, and profile enhancement / recognition. These five things are the basic needs of the application of technology in schools. It is thus expected that schools fit the global balance but remain with their vision and mission that are correlated with school and local needs. (Abd Hayyi, 2011)

Beside of hone the ability of educators, we also can hone the ability of students too, because we as a teacher especially English teacher need to preparing our students' skills because it will very important and useful for their future. Now, anything in this world need technology. So, If the students are not ready or can not operate computers or etc, what will they get and what will they do in future?

Reference :

Post Kota News, Belajar Bahasa Inggris Dengan Menggunakan IT, Minggu, 15 September 2013 posted at 0:54 WIB

http://poskotanews.com/2013/09/15/belajar-bahasa-inggris-dengan-menggunakan-it/

Guraru, Guru Era Baru, Peran Teknologi dalam Proses Belajar Mengajar Masa Kini. Posted on May, 31 2017 by kalimah

http://guraru.org/guru-berbagi/peran-teknologi-dalam-proses-belajar-mengajar-masa-kini-10/