The Competence of Primary School English (Part II)

Hello everyone, it’s me again the owner of this blog. After such a hectic week and the general election has been done, I finally manage to do a comeback in this blog to post the next part of the journal that I’ve read. In this part I will try to explain about the theoretical review of this journal.

In this part, the author is share their foundings about English teacher for young learners in Sulawesi region. This survey is conducted in several areas in Sulawesi, there are, Makassar, Bantaeng, Bulukumba, Wajo, Bone, Sidra, Soppeng, Pangkep, Parepare, Enrekang. This pre-survey is occurred in November 2011.

The result that the authours found was really shocking, and considered as a serious problems. The result that considered as a serious problems are, 1) The 51% teachers of 1415 English teachers of elementary schools in 10 regencies have never attended English Teacher Training College, 2) There are only 21% teachers that have already attended the English training, 3) 68% teachers have English teaching experiences less than 5 years. The data could be seen in Table.

Thus, based on the table and explanation about, it can be concluded that, there are 724 teachers have never attended to English Teacher Training College and also have never been to English Teacher Training College. Thus, this indicates that most of them do not have knowledge and skill in teaching English to young learners. Teachers are not have an ability to create a suitable learning method, or strategies.

However, Vale and Feuntun (1995:6) states that one of the most cliché things that teachers often do is, teacher with English as a Foreign Language, but have no experience in working with children. Vale and Feuntun insisted to give a training for the teacher who have no experience in teaching English for young learner.

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That’s it for today. Hope you guys enjoy my writing and can understand it more.