The Aplication of Community Language Learning in Teachjng Speaking
THE APPLICATION OF COMMUNITY LANGUAGE LEARNING APPROACH IN TEACHING ENGLISH SEAKING CLASS
Introduction
As an international language, at the present day, English has been used and learnt by the people all over the world, include by Indonesian students. Based on the history, English is main language which is used in Britain, USA, and many others foreign countries, where it differs in grammatical, vocabularies, and pronunciation. Besides that, there are many words in English which is derived from French which is coming through the colonial peoples and widely used in environmental governance itself. Because of this reason, there are many students who had the difficulties in learning English, especially in speaking and listening subjects. Those difficulties often cause the students’ anxiousness. Anxiety is associated with feeling of uneasiness, frustration, self-doubt, or worry. Scovel (1978: 134) defined anxiety as “a state of apprehension, a vague”. If this situation allowed continuing, the acquisition of foreign languages which is desirable is impossible. Language anxiety has been said by many researchers to influence language learning, anxiety may cause a poor performance (Scovel, 1991). So, to overcome this problem, one of the ways which can be used by the teachers is Community Language Learning. The teachers can use this approach to build students’ self-confidence and security so that they can get the braveness and freedom when they are trying to speak in English either in or out of classroom. And in this essay, I would like to discuss about Community Language Learning,
Discussion
Actually, Community Language Learning is an old method in 1970s. It is well known as a humanistic-oriented methodology which the people now often call this method as a humanistic approach to language learning. The terms of humanistic used here refers to the mixture of all other emotions and feelings of learners in the teaching learning process which includes self-esteem and
Introduction
As an international language, at the present day, English has been used and learnt by the people all over the world, include by Indonesian students. Based on the history, English is main language which is used in Britain, USA, and many others foreign countries, where it differs in grammatical, vocabularies, and pronunciation. Besides that, there are many words in English which is derived from French which is coming through the colonial peoples and widely used in environmental governance itself. Because of this reason, there are many students who had the difficulties in learning English, especially in speaking and listening subjects. Those difficulties often cause the students’ anxiousness. Anxiety is associated with feeling of uneasiness, frustration, self-doubt, or worry. Scovel (1978: 134) defined anxiety as “a state of apprehension, a vague”. If this situation allowed continuing, the acquisition of foreign languages which is desirable is impossible. Language anxiety has been said by many researchers to influence language learning, anxiety may cause a poor performance (Scovel, 1991). So, to overcome this problem, one of the ways which can be used by the teachers is Community Language Learning. The teachers can use this approach to build students’ self-confidence and security so that they can get the braveness and freedom when they are trying to speak in English either in or out of classroom. And in this essay, I would like to discuss about Community Language Learning,
Discussion
Actually, Community Language Learning is an old method in 1970s. It is well known as a humanistic-oriented methodology which the people now often call this method as a humanistic approach to language learning. The terms of humanistic used here refers to the mixture of all other emotions and feelings of learners in the teaching learning process which includes self-esteem and