Developing Standards for Language Teacher
Education in Indonesia:
Professionalizing or Losing in Complexity?
Luciana
Setting standards for language teacher
education programs, materials, and evaluation sparks some hope in attempts to
improve the quality of the programs. Yet, this very fact augmented by my
examination of ten language teacher education programs in Java, Bali, and Lampung (FKIP and
PGRI) triggers a critical look at the idea of standard development. In
particular, I would like to explore whether it can lead to a better
professionalism or we are just lost in the complexity of the standardization
itself. This paper consists of four sections. Departing from an overview of
language teacher education programs in Indonesia and the theoretical
foundations, some major problems in this area are identified. Following this,
the discussion is focused on the idea of standard development for language
teacher education programs in Indonesia.
Eventually, some suggestions are put forth to highlight the need for
establishing coherent curriculum framework bridging the two realms of language
teacher education and school milieu as well as providing learners with
knowledge base that enables them to cope with complex demands of school settings and more
essentially, to act as an agent in the social change process.
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Luciana. (2004). Developing standards for language teacher education programs
in Indonesia:
Professionalizing or losing in complexity? TEFLIN Journal,
15(1).
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