Teaching English in Nowadays

In 21st century, teaching English is not only about understanding students, but also about balancing English materials with recent era. Remembering that we have entered an age called Globalization 3.0 (Thomas Friedman, 2005) where Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can takes over teacher's role in giving knowledge, it can be danger if teacher losts his/her control in teaching because of lack of ICT. Furthermore, teaching English as a foreign language has receptive and productive purposes (Richard and Schmidt, 2010) where students can take it through learning and teaching process. To get those purposes, students obviously need teacher as instructior and facilitator in the class, which means that teacher still be the main aspect of teaching English. Because of the importance of teacher's role in English lesson, teacher can be approachable, understandable and make fun learning so that students will be more interest to learn English.

Name   : Siti Hajar Aswat

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