Qualification of EYL Teachers in Some Regions in
Kasihani
K. E. Suyanto
This
paper leads to one of the major issues in English for Young Learners (EYL)
instruction, viz., with the teacher qualifications. The implementation of the
government policy has made primary school teachers, who are not prepared to
teach English, face a hard time. Many of them are assigned to teach English.
Lack of media, inappropriate teaching techniques, inappropriate selection of
instructional materials, serious grammatical mistakes and mispronunciation are
frequently (and clearly) seen in the field. Data collected in more than 700
questionnaires are analysed to identify the
qualification of the teachers who are the participants of several regional
workshops and in-service training. Most of them (71%) do not have any English
education background; they are SMA, SPG, D-2, D-3 and S-1 graduates. Only 24.9%
hold D-3 and S-1 English education certificates, without any special education
for young learners. Most of them admit that they do not have any guidelines as
to what they should teach and how they should prepare the lesson for primary
school students. Many things must be carried out to cope with these problems:
developing syllabi/guidelines for EYL teaching, media, and appropriate
materials; and programming in-service and pre-service trainings to prepare
teachers of English for primary schools.
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Suyanto, K. K. E. (2003, October). Qualification of
EYL teachers in some regions in Indonesia. Paper presented
at the 51st TEFLIN International Conference,
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