Open AccessPERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING ENGLISH AND TRANSFORMING VALUES OF CHARACTER TO BROADEN STUDENTS HORIZON
Author(s) -
Firman Parlindungan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
englisia/englisia : journal of language, education and humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2527-6484
pISSN - 2339-2576
DOI - 10.22373/ej.v1i2.184
Subject(s) - character (mathematics) , mathematics education , competence (human resources) , quality (philosophy) , globalization , character education , psychology , mathematics , social psychology , epistemology , political science , philosophy , law , geometry
A great demand of mastering English in globalization era has made English education in Indonesia valuable and popular. Problems in classroom, quality of teachers, teaching strategies and media are a plethora of topics that have been concerns to be developed. On another front, there is an effort to shape students’ character building which enables them to master social competence with the expected behavior and moral capacity. Students can be trained some certain good characters within the implementation of language teaching. By taking these two variables into account, success of learning can be achieved not only in language mastery, but also in students’ character.