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actualization language learning for the RD undergraduate thesis writing. The theoretical model will be used by the writer to construct a validated design model of
self-actualization language learning by using a methodology called educational research and development RD.
C. PROBLEM LIMITATION
In developing a model of post-modernself-actualization language learning, the writer considers major viewpoints of the nature of language and language learning
communicative competence and post-methods era’s ideas – all of which are in fact
accompanied and underpinned by a currently educational-cultural viewpoint called post-modern education, whose
goal is the learner’s self-actualization and in which the concept of learner-centeredness is central. The study is limited to the development of a
model which subscribes to these basic self-actualization post-modern viewpoints. Self- actualization
here is intended to be the one that is expected to be experienced by the target learners school or university learners of English of the ELESP design products.
The study is also limited to the development of a model of language learning in the context of the English Language Education Study Program ELESP of Sanata
Dharma University SDU. The preliminary study done is limited to a content analysis of the design products that have been written by some students of the ELESP of SDU
with the GPA grade point average each being 3.00. The result of the analysis is used as input in developing the writer’s model of self-actualization language learning. The
writer also tries to obtain expert feedback from ELESP-USD lecturers for the validation and improvement of the writer’s model.
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This is a study related to educational research and development – not industrial
reserach and development. Therefore, the writer limits the study to relevant steps of RD which are manageable due to the time and scope limitation found in an
educational design development.
D. PROBLEM FORMULATION
It is now necessary to make the problem of this study focused and clear. A model of self-actualization language learning to be used as a guide by ELESP students
to develop a design product of their RD undergraduate thesis is needed. The model incorporates self-actualization post-modern viewpoints of education and culture,
language, and language learning. This is formulated in the following questions. 1. What does the theoretical model of self-actualization language learning for the
design product of the RD undergraduate thesis look like? 2. What does the actual model of self-actualization language learning for the design
product of the RD undergraduate thesis look like?
E. RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
