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

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