The Standardisation for YL of English: Should It be School-Based, Regional, National, or International or All?

 

 

Simon Colledge

Itje Chodidjah

 

 

 

Talking about standardization, it is hard not to refer to testing. As a part of assessment testing can be used to diagnose students’ strength and weaknesses, to see how far the students have achieved the objectives of the course of study and to measure language proficiency independently of any course followed. Testing can also give a sense of closure to a course of a level and the feeling and satisfaction of passing a test usually gives the students the “pride” in accomplishment.

 

The teaching of English in primary school in Indonesia has been mushrooming all over the country. Many schools are now struggling to find the most suitable standard of measurement for their teaching and learning improvement because the test widely used to measure their success in usually school based or regional based.

 

The questions are: Is there any national standard of measurement applied formally in Indonesia? Has the school or regional standard produced by teachers or Dinas or Kanwil fulfilled the minimum requirements as a tool to measure the students’ achievement? Is there any international standard that can be applied for YL?

 

The paper will look at different test for YL and which standard will be suitable for YL in Indonesian context. It will look at whether schools better used school based-standard, regional standard, national standard or international standard.

 

 

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Colledge, S., & Chodidjah, I. (2003, October). The standardisation  for YL of English: Should it be school-based, regional, national, or international, or all?. Paper presented at the 51^st TEFLIN International Conference, Bandung, Indonesia.

 

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