Short Bio
Alek is a senior lecturer in the Department of Language Education in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta, Jakarta-Indonesia. His research interests include education for English as a foreign or second language, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, language teaching, and learning with ICT devices. He has published in the fields of foreign/second language teaching and learning, local language, discourse analysis, and textbook analysis.
E-mail : alek@uinjkt.ac.id Personal contact : 081298439495 SCOPUS ID : 57215827762
Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oTKzyDAAAAAJ&hl=en SINTA ID : 6066639
ORCHID ID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1907-2851
What is Education
• Education is a process of expediting
learning, acquiring knowledge, values, and virtue.
• Education contributes to the development of better people around the globe.
• It is more of an enduring method in which
people gain information, skills, and ethics.
What is
Education?
Education is a process to increase, improve, change the knowledge, skills, and attitudes and behavior of a person or group in an
effort to educate human life through
teaching and training guidance activities.
Education should be able to produce human resources who have complete
competence, namely attitude competence, knowledge competence, and integrated
skill competence.
A Glance of Linguistics VS Applied Linguistics
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Linguistics is primarily concerned with language in itself and in findings ways of analysing language and building
theories that describe language.
Applied linguistics is concerned with the role of language in peoples’ lives and problems associated with language use in
peoples’ lives.Linguistics is essential but not the only
feeder discipline.
What is
linguistics in education?
The discipline of linguistics focuses on:
- Theories of language structure, - Variation and use,
- The implications of theories of language for an understanding of the mind and brain,
- Human culture,
- Social behavior, and
- Language learning and teaching.
What is the relationship between
education and language?
• Teaching in the mother tongue or a language that the children know
well results in better and more effective learning.
• Learners/Children need to be taught in their own language for at least the first five to six years of schooling.
• Foreign languages can then gradually be introduced as the language of
instruction
10 Problems Faced by Teachers in Teaching English Language
Disturbed Environment of the Class.
Limited Teaching Resources.
A Large Number of Students in the Classroom.
Wrong Syllabus to be Teach.
Limited Time for Lecture to Teach.
Students Hijack Lessons.
Students Disturbed the Class.
Using Other Languages in the Classrooms.
- Doubt about your abilities. “I'm not good at learning new languages?”
- Lack of practice opportunities.
- Fear of speaking with strangers.
- Loss of Motivation.
• Practice making speeches discussing common conversational topics.
• Remember to forget (your mistakes).
• When you can't remember a word, don't just stop: use comparisons, synonyms, noises, hand gestures and more!
• Learn some idioms and common phrases.
• Practice your accent.
• Keep practising anytime and anywhere, Learning a new language
also helps in boosting one's confidence and also
helps in improving communication skills.
It also encourages students to take up new challenges.
Learning a new language does improve our English as
most foreign languages are taught in English.
What problems are related to language?
- Language learning,
• Language teaching,
• Literacy,
• Language contact (language & culture),
• Language policy and planning,language assessment,
• Language use,
• Language and technology,
• Translation and interpretation,
• Language pathology.
