Bilingual Education Perception Teaching Implementation

9 3 Situation A situation that person’s familiarity with, expectations about, or past experience is another factor affecting the perception. Perceiving a situation is related to how people perceive their behavior and attitude in a specific situation. Different situations affect people in perceiving their behavior. Science teachers who basically are not familiar with English may have different perception with English teachers in improving students’ English vocabulary items through the bilingual class. 4 Self-concept The way people perceive their selves affecting the perception of the world. A self-concept is important for people in order to create a mental image of something. d. Teachers’ Perception As stated in Chapter I, the focus of this study is on the teachers’ perception. According to Muijis and Reynolds 2011, there are three main types of perception that matter to teach. The perceptions are an evaluation on an effective teaching, students’ behavior in learning, and situation around the school itself. The three main types of perception occur from the SMP Joannes Bosco Science teachers ’ perception on the implementation of bilingual education in teaching-learning activities for Science class. Three types of teacher s’ thought that can have an impact on teaching are identified by Clark and Petersen as cited in Muijis Reynolds, 2011: teacher planning, teacher thought processes, and teachers’ theories and beliefs. 10

2. Bilingual Education

In this section, the researcher describes the theories about bilingual education. This section includes the definition of bilingual education and the implementation of bilingual education. a. Definition of Bilingual Education According to Hamers and Blanc 1990, the definition of bilingual education is a system of school education in which, for a verifying amount of time, simultaneously or consecutively, the instruction when teaching is planned and given in more than one language or at least two languages. Hamers and Blanc 1990 also describe that most programs of bilingual education are divided into three categories. The first category is that the instruction is given in both languages simultaneously. The second category is that the instruction is given first in L 1 until such time when the students are able to use L 2 as the means of learning. The last category is that the largest part of instruction is given in L 2 , and L 1 is introduced at larger stage as an introductory language. Based on Bax 2010, many nations in Asia including Indonesia have meant a radical re-assessment of what they consider to be ineffective approaches to English language education. One response has been a move towards what is perceived as more innovative solutions involving bilingual and immersion approaches and the teaching of content subjects such as Math and Science through the English. Hymes describes “bilingual education is a sociolinguistic subject that enables children to develop their capacity for creative use of language as part of