6. The role of teachers in succeeding English language teaching: teacher professional development in facing the AEC 2015 - The role of teachers in succeeding English language teaching: teacher professional development in facing the AEC 2015
6. The role of teachers in succeeding English language teaching:
teacher professional development in facing the AEC 2015
Nanik Mariyati, S.Pd., M.Pd.
Department of Language, Communication and Tourism, Politeknik Negeri Jember,
Indonesia
Abstract
This article is underpinned by the fact that English becomes increasingly
important in the context of AEC 2015. Thinking of the effectiveness of English
teaching, one of crucial aspects to consider is the role of teacher which has been
found weak in support of English teaching. In fact, there are still practices
signified with outdated methods, lacks of preparation, and careless behavior on
professional development. This article posits that the teacher’ roles need to be
revitalized in terms of teacher as a facilitator, role model, evaluator, and
motivator.
Keywords: English language teaching, teacher’s roles
Introduction
AEC (ASEAN Economic Community) was decalared in ASEAN summit 2007 which
held in Cebu, Filiphine by 10 ASEAN state leaders. It will be established in 2015. The
AEC areas cooperation include human resources development and capacity building. In
short, the AEC will transform ASEAN into a region with not only free movement of
goods, services, investment, and freer flow of capital but also skilled labours and
proffesionals. There will be no barrier for all people in ASEAN countries to move and
work in companies in ASEAN countries. The competition will perhaps be tighter than
that at present times. Every person should be aware of their own capacity to win the
limmited opportunities offered. Government need to be the promotor in preparing their
citizen to face these challenges.
Indonesia, one of the ASEAN states which has been involved in this agreement
should take a quantum leave to trigger its people to be ready to face AEC. But there is a
big question “How should this country prepare the skillfull labours and professionals in
a very short time”? Even though the AEC Blueprint, signed in 2007 in Singapore by the
leaders of all ten member states, reaffirms the goal of regional economic integration
declared at the Bali Summit in October 2003, but for Indonesian people AEC is
something new and unpopular. Therefore, when the issue of AEC is being published
widely, recently, people respond it panicly. This is because of the problem they faced
is not only being skillful and professional in their field but the most difficult task that
should be solved soon is about language. They need to master the language that will be
used officially to be the means of communication among AEC participants that is
English. In Indonesia, English is a foreign language and being given in the school as a
Journal of English in Academic and Professional Communication
JEAPCo, 1(1) 2014
53
local content subject. The biggest question now is how English teacher can prepare the
students’ English skills effectively?
English as a local content subject basically has already been given in all
education level in Indonesia. The fact that can not be denied the most students in
Indonesia can not communicate in English well because English is only as the same
subject as another subject like Math, Physic and Biology. There is no obligation for the
students to apply English in their daily conversation. The worst thing happend in almost
all school is the English teachers are relauctant to use English inside and or outside the
classroom. This perhaps is being the most common caused that make the students also
reluctant to speak English. The construction is already there. How will be the AEC 2015
faced by the young generation of Indonesia dealing with their English proficiency?
The Teachers’ Role
The English teachers take the very big porsion in preparing this potential state human
resources to be ready to face AEC 2015 especially dealing with English proficiency. For
sure, the first thing to be considered is the quality of human resources themselves
dealing with their basic skills of their profession. But, if I can say there is a big but, it
will be hard to compette with other ASEAN countries workers candidate if they don’t
equip themselves with good English. They perhap realize that the provided time is not
enough to recover all weaknesses but some efforts must be taken than just be hopeless.
Little things to do mean something for the students’ future. The teacher should
put themselves in a different role. They are not only transfering the knowledge of the
language to the students but they also need to force themselves to make their students
become language user. This ideal goal only can be achieved by spending maximum
energy, time, knowledge and skills.
Teacher Common Critical Situation
Teaching English as a foreign language is a challenging, yet rewarding career choice for
most English teacher in Indonesia, since the presence of wealthy guarantee from the
government is available. As an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher, we must
try to understand deeply and continuosly of our students needs. We also should ready
dealing with a variety of problems in the classroom, most of them is the critical one and
already common happened. A good EFL teacher must not be passive in facing these
things but never give up to find its solution for better students’ achievement. Small
renewable means something for the students’ progress. It also can help to build more
dynamic and casual environment for both teachers and students.
Based on my casual observation and my own experiences, the most critical
classroom problems faced when teaching English as foreign language are in the
following explaination.
Out dated Teaching Methodology
The heavy teaching load take the most time of the teacher that make them do not have
sufficient time to create or develop their teaching methodology. Time by time, day by
day, year by year the same out dated methodology is applied. Perhaps the students are
different in the moment, but they have the same feeling with that, boredand are not
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interested in. Some teachers may realize this situation, yet limited time and reluctant
block their energy to get out from it. Teacher may need to participate in various
conference, seminar or workshop to upgrade and refresh their knowledge and skills
concerning with teaching methodology. By joining those kind of scientific meetings
will renew the energy in helping the students to maximize their ability in learning
language to get maximum result.
Language is a practical skill and it always develops as well as the rapid
development of social interaction. The burden of English teachers nowadays are heavier
than before in helping the students to face AEC 2015, so the teacher should spend their
time to create up to date teaching methodology to attract the students to learn English
more enthusiast. Teacher need to create some innovation to trigger the students to be
more active and interested in process of teaching learning English. The students are the
centre of the teaching learning. Exploring more their potential capacity will result
maximum ability than just listening to the teacher explanation. Teacher can utilize
recourses that already provided and easy to find. There are so many tools available to
support their teaching innovation and methodology such as, TV, Radio, video
streaming, internet, magazine etc, so there is no reason to be old fashion teacher
anymore. Appropriate teaching methodology will create classroom more dynamic and
the students more anthusiast so it will result the improvement of the students skills.
Carelessness
In particular cases, English teachers do some careless things in doing their duty in the
classroom. They do not come to the class but always give assignment to the students.
When giving wrong explanation they seems does not do the wrong thing and there is no
confirmation about what has already been done. Besides, they do not want to give any
review or feedback to the students’ worksheet or performance. Those kinds of mistakes
often happen in the language classroom which is a dangerous situation.
The students need to confirm their progress and skills improvement. The teacher
must focus on the students as the centre of the teaching learning activities. They are the
most valuable and priceless client ever for the teacher. The teachers need to do some
regular reflection to their performance to locate their strengths and weaknesses.
Attention, personal touch, and feedback are much needed in language classroom, since
they are close to the action in doing correction to guide the students to do right things.
Learning language is not like learning mathematic that should be counted persistently, it
perhaps some compromises made. When the students practice speaking, they may not
do it as perfect as native speaker, but as far as their utterances could be understood and
meaningful, it is accepted.
Therefore, to help the students in this very critical time to face AEC 2015, the
teachers need to give more attention for both to their own skills and knowledge and the
students. Personal touch from the teacher nowadays seems gone with the wind and we
do not know where it is, but spending more time to give more attention and care to the
students will be helpful to the students’ development. In this critical situation teachers
need more attractive to make the teaching learning goal being reached.
Journal of English in Academic and Professional Communication
JEAPCo, 1(1) 2014
55
Teacher Positioning
How the teacher positioning themselve in the classroom when teaching learning process
occur to get maximum result and being effective teacher to reshape their students
skills? It can not be denyed that teacher is the centre of the attention of the students.
Promising students do believe in the teacher and seem like put their future to the
teachers’ hand. Still, it was so obvious that the students always obey their teacher
instruction eventough sometimes they found something unpleasent to do it. The relation
between teacher and students socially may already reshaped but the role of the teacher
is already over there as facilitator, role model, evaluator and motivator.
Facilitator
Being facilitator, teacher should facilitate the students with valuable material by
considering the students need. Technology nowadays shrapen teachers’ future dealing
with their position as a facilitator for their students. Authentic materials are widely
available in the variaty form of resources. Nothing will be the reason to say that they
don’t have any appropriate material to facilitate the students with qualified knowledge
and skills. Everything is easy to be taken from internet. It is not recommended to give
material merely based on their stock or giving an old version material that have not been
already suitable with the students target competencies. The material that already out of
date may considered to be balancing but the main point is the students should get what
actually the expect. English is a dynamic subject and teacher can explore themselves
greater to make the students more anthusiastic in learning.
When the students are facilitated well, involving time, care and personal touch
in fullfilling their need, it is not possible that they can learn well and the goal of the
subject will be reached perfectly. To support the teachers duty as facilitator, teachers
should have a very good preparation in conducting the class in form of syllabus and
lesson plan, so they will have a clear guidline in teaching. Besides applying appropriate
teaching strategy is also the very importat factor in succeeding the students’ learning.
When the goal is maintaining the students communication, the teaching strategy must
corellate with facilitating the students in using English as a mean of communication.
Giving more space to the students to practice speaking is the form of facilitating them to
be an English speaker. Triggering the students to acquire English especially to be ready
to communicate using appropriate language in winning AEC competetion must be the
first priority.
Besides the teacher also provide more information about the opportunity in
having carrier for them when AEC 2015 is applied. Clear describtion based on accurate
data from credible resources will open the studens mind sets in facing AEC 2015. They
may will be more serious to prepare themselves especially dealing with English.
According to Liu (2013), teachers should know the employment situation in the
industry and the trend of future development of oral English talents as well as how to
win in the future employment competition.
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Role Model
The students need to have clear model in practicing their English. The person who is
capable and possible being the role model is the teacher. Teachers take the very big
portion in reshaping the students in mastering English since they are the only agent to
be imitated and to confirm wheter the students do the right thngs or not.
Realizing the vital position as a role model, teachers should encourage
themelves to be qualified and trustworthy one to make sure that the students have
already followed the right trend setter. They have to guarantee their students that they
see and follow the right idol. As I already stated before language is a practical skill, and
whoever want to master it they have to try it or practice it. Teachers as a role model
should be aware of this fact. They need to demonstrade the knowledge and skill that
they share to the students not only explain it. Teaching language is not only explaining
about the pattern or grammar and remembering many vocabulary as possible, but it is
really close relates to how to use it in daily conversation. This so called learning by
doing. The teachers should use English inside and ouside the classroom. Without giving
the right example and being the role model to their students, teachers may will be in a
very difficult situation. The students will only guess and use trial and error strategy to
practice their English. This thing offcourse very dengorous if happen in long period.
The guessing input will be fossilize and more difficult to be repaired in the future.
The use of body language in orang English leraning is also important to be
demonstrated to the students, because sometimes they do not understand the sentence
perfectly so body language will emphasize the intent of the uterances. Appropriate body
language will make the conversation become more understandable. This, someday will
help the students easier to communicate with people who come from non English
speaking country just like ASEAN people.
In terms of being a role model teachers should aware with their own
competence. They can not only rely on what they have already got from pre service
teacher skill but they must always upgrade their knowledge and skills. Related to AEC
2015, teachers need to read more about the news and movement around ASEAN
countries so they have authentic resources to be shared to their students. It also could be
the additional topic of oral English teaching discussion in the classroom, so the students
will get two benefits; practicing the language and also getting authentic information.
Besides teacher should always improve and develop their English skills regularly to
make sure the students that the teacher is the right role model they have.
Evaluator
Teaching learning proccess aims to make the students reached certain achievement that
already set in syllabus and lesson plan. In doing this the teachers are not only
transfering the knowledge and skills that needed by the students but also evaluate the
students progress.
In learning language especially English, the students will not exactly absorb the
knowledge and skills as the same as what the teacher give but some may need to be
corrected. Teachers as evaluator should regularly check the students progress and give
valuable feedback to lead the students back in the right track. It is dealing with all skills
learned; speaking, writing, reading, listening, grammar, pronunciation and all language
Journal of English in Academic and Professional Communication
JEAPCo, 1(1) 2014
57
components included. The teachers should take part in all activities conducted in the
classroom to analize and evaluate the students performance. Giving some comments are
very needed to correct the mistake made by the students. Liu (2013) states the teachers
should let students understand their shortcomings and provide guidance for them so that
the same mistakes can be avoided. The teacher should focus more to the major mistake
than minor mistake (slip of tounge). In giving evaluation, teacher also let the students to
do reflection to their own progress by giving some notes personally of their
performance in certain period. Personal evaluation is done to avoid negative feelings
from the students such as shy, hopeless and reluctant. If the mistake is done by mojority
of the students, the teacher should point them out in front of all the class. When the
teacher take this role perfectly, the students output achievements will reach both the
students and the teachers expectation.
Motivator
Students’ motivation has already been the main concern of many researches in learning
English area for a long time, but the situation seems still setle in the previous place.
Students’ motivation is the serious problem faced by the teacher in teaching
English. Most the students joining the English class are only because they have to take
the subject not because they want to master English skills. The motivation mostly come
from external factors such as school regulation, parents, obligation, friends, and score.
Internal factors, learn English because of they want to do it and aim to master it well,
are hard to find. It influences much to the style in learning English. In this case the
teachers should aware with the students condition. They have to spend certain time
inside and also outside the classroom to always motivate them to learn English more
serious. Teachers should provide more examples and cases related to the benefit of
mastering English. Sterngthening external and internal motivation everytime and every
moment will encourage the students to trigger themselves to learn more.
Teachers also need to spend more energy to find more resourches to be shared to
the students to mativate them to do the same things so they will enrich their knowledge
not only from their teacher but also from other valuable resourches that can be found by
themselves. This thing is very important to promote the students achievement and
experiences in learning English from different point of view.
Conclusion
This article argues that the roles of teacher need to be revitalized in order to boost the
effectiveness of English classes in Indonesian context. The ASEAN economic
integration has been in front of the eyes which demands English proficiency for those
involved in particular academic or professional activities. Therefore, the effectiveness
of English teaching has to be increased through revitalising the teachers’ roles. Four of
many highlighted in this article are related to the importance of teacher in facilitating
the learning process, becoming an English language model, motivator and evaluator.
References
Liu, W (2013) 'The role of teacher in oral English teaching.’ Proceedings of the
International Conference on Information. Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012,
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teacher professional development in facing the AEC 2015
Nanik Mariyati, S.Pd., M.Pd.
Department of Language, Communication and Tourism, Politeknik Negeri Jember,
Indonesia
Abstract
This article is underpinned by the fact that English becomes increasingly
important in the context of AEC 2015. Thinking of the effectiveness of English
teaching, one of crucial aspects to consider is the role of teacher which has been
found weak in support of English teaching. In fact, there are still practices
signified with outdated methods, lacks of preparation, and careless behavior on
professional development. This article posits that the teacher’ roles need to be
revitalized in terms of teacher as a facilitator, role model, evaluator, and
motivator.
Keywords: English language teaching, teacher’s roles
Introduction
AEC (ASEAN Economic Community) was decalared in ASEAN summit 2007 which
held in Cebu, Filiphine by 10 ASEAN state leaders. It will be established in 2015. The
AEC areas cooperation include human resources development and capacity building. In
short, the AEC will transform ASEAN into a region with not only free movement of
goods, services, investment, and freer flow of capital but also skilled labours and
proffesionals. There will be no barrier for all people in ASEAN countries to move and
work in companies in ASEAN countries. The competition will perhaps be tighter than
that at present times. Every person should be aware of their own capacity to win the
limmited opportunities offered. Government need to be the promotor in preparing their
citizen to face these challenges.
Indonesia, one of the ASEAN states which has been involved in this agreement
should take a quantum leave to trigger its people to be ready to face AEC. But there is a
big question “How should this country prepare the skillfull labours and professionals in
a very short time”? Even though the AEC Blueprint, signed in 2007 in Singapore by the
leaders of all ten member states, reaffirms the goal of regional economic integration
declared at the Bali Summit in October 2003, but for Indonesian people AEC is
something new and unpopular. Therefore, when the issue of AEC is being published
widely, recently, people respond it panicly. This is because of the problem they faced
is not only being skillful and professional in their field but the most difficult task that
should be solved soon is about language. They need to master the language that will be
used officially to be the means of communication among AEC participants that is
English. In Indonesia, English is a foreign language and being given in the school as a
Journal of English in Academic and Professional Communication
JEAPCo, 1(1) 2014
53
local content subject. The biggest question now is how English teacher can prepare the
students’ English skills effectively?
English as a local content subject basically has already been given in all
education level in Indonesia. The fact that can not be denied the most students in
Indonesia can not communicate in English well because English is only as the same
subject as another subject like Math, Physic and Biology. There is no obligation for the
students to apply English in their daily conversation. The worst thing happend in almost
all school is the English teachers are relauctant to use English inside and or outside the
classroom. This perhaps is being the most common caused that make the students also
reluctant to speak English. The construction is already there. How will be the AEC 2015
faced by the young generation of Indonesia dealing with their English proficiency?
The Teachers’ Role
The English teachers take the very big porsion in preparing this potential state human
resources to be ready to face AEC 2015 especially dealing with English proficiency. For
sure, the first thing to be considered is the quality of human resources themselves
dealing with their basic skills of their profession. But, if I can say there is a big but, it
will be hard to compette with other ASEAN countries workers candidate if they don’t
equip themselves with good English. They perhap realize that the provided time is not
enough to recover all weaknesses but some efforts must be taken than just be hopeless.
Little things to do mean something for the students’ future. The teacher should
put themselves in a different role. They are not only transfering the knowledge of the
language to the students but they also need to force themselves to make their students
become language user. This ideal goal only can be achieved by spending maximum
energy, time, knowledge and skills.
Teacher Common Critical Situation
Teaching English as a foreign language is a challenging, yet rewarding career choice for
most English teacher in Indonesia, since the presence of wealthy guarantee from the
government is available. As an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher, we must
try to understand deeply and continuosly of our students needs. We also should ready
dealing with a variety of problems in the classroom, most of them is the critical one and
already common happened. A good EFL teacher must not be passive in facing these
things but never give up to find its solution for better students’ achievement. Small
renewable means something for the students’ progress. It also can help to build more
dynamic and casual environment for both teachers and students.
Based on my casual observation and my own experiences, the most critical
classroom problems faced when teaching English as foreign language are in the
following explaination.
Out dated Teaching Methodology
The heavy teaching load take the most time of the teacher that make them do not have
sufficient time to create or develop their teaching methodology. Time by time, day by
day, year by year the same out dated methodology is applied. Perhaps the students are
different in the moment, but they have the same feeling with that, boredand are not
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interested in. Some teachers may realize this situation, yet limited time and reluctant
block their energy to get out from it. Teacher may need to participate in various
conference, seminar or workshop to upgrade and refresh their knowledge and skills
concerning with teaching methodology. By joining those kind of scientific meetings
will renew the energy in helping the students to maximize their ability in learning
language to get maximum result.
Language is a practical skill and it always develops as well as the rapid
development of social interaction. The burden of English teachers nowadays are heavier
than before in helping the students to face AEC 2015, so the teacher should spend their
time to create up to date teaching methodology to attract the students to learn English
more enthusiast. Teacher need to create some innovation to trigger the students to be
more active and interested in process of teaching learning English. The students are the
centre of the teaching learning. Exploring more their potential capacity will result
maximum ability than just listening to the teacher explanation. Teacher can utilize
recourses that already provided and easy to find. There are so many tools available to
support their teaching innovation and methodology such as, TV, Radio, video
streaming, internet, magazine etc, so there is no reason to be old fashion teacher
anymore. Appropriate teaching methodology will create classroom more dynamic and
the students more anthusiast so it will result the improvement of the students skills.
Carelessness
In particular cases, English teachers do some careless things in doing their duty in the
classroom. They do not come to the class but always give assignment to the students.
When giving wrong explanation they seems does not do the wrong thing and there is no
confirmation about what has already been done. Besides, they do not want to give any
review or feedback to the students’ worksheet or performance. Those kinds of mistakes
often happen in the language classroom which is a dangerous situation.
The students need to confirm their progress and skills improvement. The teacher
must focus on the students as the centre of the teaching learning activities. They are the
most valuable and priceless client ever for the teacher. The teachers need to do some
regular reflection to their performance to locate their strengths and weaknesses.
Attention, personal touch, and feedback are much needed in language classroom, since
they are close to the action in doing correction to guide the students to do right things.
Learning language is not like learning mathematic that should be counted persistently, it
perhaps some compromises made. When the students practice speaking, they may not
do it as perfect as native speaker, but as far as their utterances could be understood and
meaningful, it is accepted.
Therefore, to help the students in this very critical time to face AEC 2015, the
teachers need to give more attention for both to their own skills and knowledge and the
students. Personal touch from the teacher nowadays seems gone with the wind and we
do not know where it is, but spending more time to give more attention and care to the
students will be helpful to the students’ development. In this critical situation teachers
need more attractive to make the teaching learning goal being reached.
Journal of English in Academic and Professional Communication
JEAPCo, 1(1) 2014
55
Teacher Positioning
How the teacher positioning themselve in the classroom when teaching learning process
occur to get maximum result and being effective teacher to reshape their students
skills? It can not be denyed that teacher is the centre of the attention of the students.
Promising students do believe in the teacher and seem like put their future to the
teachers’ hand. Still, it was so obvious that the students always obey their teacher
instruction eventough sometimes they found something unpleasent to do it. The relation
between teacher and students socially may already reshaped but the role of the teacher
is already over there as facilitator, role model, evaluator and motivator.
Facilitator
Being facilitator, teacher should facilitate the students with valuable material by
considering the students need. Technology nowadays shrapen teachers’ future dealing
with their position as a facilitator for their students. Authentic materials are widely
available in the variaty form of resources. Nothing will be the reason to say that they
don’t have any appropriate material to facilitate the students with qualified knowledge
and skills. Everything is easy to be taken from internet. It is not recommended to give
material merely based on their stock or giving an old version material that have not been
already suitable with the students target competencies. The material that already out of
date may considered to be balancing but the main point is the students should get what
actually the expect. English is a dynamic subject and teacher can explore themselves
greater to make the students more anthusiastic in learning.
When the students are facilitated well, involving time, care and personal touch
in fullfilling their need, it is not possible that they can learn well and the goal of the
subject will be reached perfectly. To support the teachers duty as facilitator, teachers
should have a very good preparation in conducting the class in form of syllabus and
lesson plan, so they will have a clear guidline in teaching. Besides applying appropriate
teaching strategy is also the very importat factor in succeeding the students’ learning.
When the goal is maintaining the students communication, the teaching strategy must
corellate with facilitating the students in using English as a mean of communication.
Giving more space to the students to practice speaking is the form of facilitating them to
be an English speaker. Triggering the students to acquire English especially to be ready
to communicate using appropriate language in winning AEC competetion must be the
first priority.
Besides the teacher also provide more information about the opportunity in
having carrier for them when AEC 2015 is applied. Clear describtion based on accurate
data from credible resources will open the studens mind sets in facing AEC 2015. They
may will be more serious to prepare themselves especially dealing with English.
According to Liu (2013), teachers should know the employment situation in the
industry and the trend of future development of oral English talents as well as how to
win in the future employment competition.
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Role Model
The students need to have clear model in practicing their English. The person who is
capable and possible being the role model is the teacher. Teachers take the very big
portion in reshaping the students in mastering English since they are the only agent to
be imitated and to confirm wheter the students do the right thngs or not.
Realizing the vital position as a role model, teachers should encourage
themelves to be qualified and trustworthy one to make sure that the students have
already followed the right trend setter. They have to guarantee their students that they
see and follow the right idol. As I already stated before language is a practical skill, and
whoever want to master it they have to try it or practice it. Teachers as a role model
should be aware of this fact. They need to demonstrade the knowledge and skill that
they share to the students not only explain it. Teaching language is not only explaining
about the pattern or grammar and remembering many vocabulary as possible, but it is
really close relates to how to use it in daily conversation. This so called learning by
doing. The teachers should use English inside and ouside the classroom. Without giving
the right example and being the role model to their students, teachers may will be in a
very difficult situation. The students will only guess and use trial and error strategy to
practice their English. This thing offcourse very dengorous if happen in long period.
The guessing input will be fossilize and more difficult to be repaired in the future.
The use of body language in orang English leraning is also important to be
demonstrated to the students, because sometimes they do not understand the sentence
perfectly so body language will emphasize the intent of the uterances. Appropriate body
language will make the conversation become more understandable. This, someday will
help the students easier to communicate with people who come from non English
speaking country just like ASEAN people.
In terms of being a role model teachers should aware with their own
competence. They can not only rely on what they have already got from pre service
teacher skill but they must always upgrade their knowledge and skills. Related to AEC
2015, teachers need to read more about the news and movement around ASEAN
countries so they have authentic resources to be shared to their students. It also could be
the additional topic of oral English teaching discussion in the classroom, so the students
will get two benefits; practicing the language and also getting authentic information.
Besides teacher should always improve and develop their English skills regularly to
make sure the students that the teacher is the right role model they have.
Evaluator
Teaching learning proccess aims to make the students reached certain achievement that
already set in syllabus and lesson plan. In doing this the teachers are not only
transfering the knowledge and skills that needed by the students but also evaluate the
students progress.
In learning language especially English, the students will not exactly absorb the
knowledge and skills as the same as what the teacher give but some may need to be
corrected. Teachers as evaluator should regularly check the students progress and give
valuable feedback to lead the students back in the right track. It is dealing with all skills
learned; speaking, writing, reading, listening, grammar, pronunciation and all language
Journal of English in Academic and Professional Communication
JEAPCo, 1(1) 2014
57
components included. The teachers should take part in all activities conducted in the
classroom to analize and evaluate the students performance. Giving some comments are
very needed to correct the mistake made by the students. Liu (2013) states the teachers
should let students understand their shortcomings and provide guidance for them so that
the same mistakes can be avoided. The teacher should focus more to the major mistake
than minor mistake (slip of tounge). In giving evaluation, teacher also let the students to
do reflection to their own progress by giving some notes personally of their
performance in certain period. Personal evaluation is done to avoid negative feelings
from the students such as shy, hopeless and reluctant. If the mistake is done by mojority
of the students, the teacher should point them out in front of all the class. When the
teacher take this role perfectly, the students output achievements will reach both the
students and the teachers expectation.
Motivator
Students’ motivation has already been the main concern of many researches in learning
English area for a long time, but the situation seems still setle in the previous place.
Students’ motivation is the serious problem faced by the teacher in teaching
English. Most the students joining the English class are only because they have to take
the subject not because they want to master English skills. The motivation mostly come
from external factors such as school regulation, parents, obligation, friends, and score.
Internal factors, learn English because of they want to do it and aim to master it well,
are hard to find. It influences much to the style in learning English. In this case the
teachers should aware with the students condition. They have to spend certain time
inside and also outside the classroom to always motivate them to learn English more
serious. Teachers should provide more examples and cases related to the benefit of
mastering English. Sterngthening external and internal motivation everytime and every
moment will encourage the students to trigger themselves to learn more.
Teachers also need to spend more energy to find more resourches to be shared to
the students to mativate them to do the same things so they will enrich their knowledge
not only from their teacher but also from other valuable resourches that can be found by
themselves. This thing is very important to promote the students achievement and
experiences in learning English from different point of view.
Conclusion
This article argues that the roles of teacher need to be revitalized in order to boost the
effectiveness of English classes in Indonesian context. The ASEAN economic
integration has been in front of the eyes which demands English proficiency for those
involved in particular academic or professional activities. Therefore, the effectiveness
of English teaching has to be increased through revitalising the teachers’ roles. Four of
many highlighted in this article are related to the importance of teacher in facilitating
the learning process, becoming an English language model, motivator and evaluator.
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