Glad to see tell you that I will be presenting
paper entitled “Rethinking teaching materials: A study of analyzing newspapers
as authentic sources in language teaching.”
The National English Language Teachers and Lecturers Conference (NELTAL) is a annual program by English Department, the Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang. At the very first time, this conference was initiative project by some prominent scholars in English Language Teaching in Indonesia, one of them is Prof. Bambang Yudi Cahyono, Ph.D.
This year, NELTAL 2013 will be held at 20 March 2013 at Auditorium Hall E6 Building the Faculty of Letters. There will be about 30 presenters by English language teachers and lecturers across Indonesia. There are also some keynote speakers from English Department of State University of Malang.
The National English Language Teachers and Lecturers Conference (NELTAL) is a annual program by English Department, the Faculty of Letters, State University of Malang. At the very first time, this conference was initiative project by some prominent scholars in English Language Teaching in Indonesia, one of them is Prof. Bambang Yudi Cahyono, Ph.D.
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| Arts Building, The Faculty of LettersState University of Malang |
This year, NELTAL 2013 will be held at 20 March 2013 at Auditorium Hall E6 Building the Faculty of Letters. There will be about 30 presenters by English language teachers and lecturers across Indonesia. There are also some keynote speakers from English Department of State University of Malang.
Here is my general abstract of my writing:
Presently,
the use of authentic written materials e.g.
magazines and newspapers
in language class is widely acknowledged, since
they provide stimulating
texts full of
cultural information to students who have a wide range of
interests; the presence of authentic materials is also in line with the trend
of communicative approach in our education.
However, bringing authentic written
materials means we bring wide perspectives and discourses, and even such issues
may affect students’ emotion during the learning process as sensitive issues,
violence, injustice, poverty, conflicts, and so forth, leading the learning
process into hesitation and reluctance in engaging with the activities.
Just because a
text is authentic
does not mean
it is relevant,
and authentic texts
are often too
difficult linguistically. This study will discuss about the importance
of the needs to reconsider the way we present authentic sources into the
language classes by knowing proper procedures in bringing and adapting the
authentic materials based on the needs of the classroom and learning objectives
through addition, deletion, and modification, especially to the level of
discourse aspects, of the materials.
