Responses towards Policy on TEYL in Elementary Schools: A case study in Malang City

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10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.243How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English for Young Learners; policy; responses

Abstract

In Indonesian elementary schools, English subject has been transformed to be an extracurricular subject since the 2013 Curriculum was implemented in order to give more opportunities to our young learners to learn the local languages. In East Java, this is supported by the Governor Regulation Number 19 Year 2014 that the local content subject taught in Elementary and Secondary Schools is Javanese or Madurese language—in other words, English is no longer a local content subject in primary level like when the School-Based Curriculum (KTSP) was implemented. Thus, schools are actually given options to include or exclude it from the curriculum. This qualitative case study which was conducted in Malang, East Java, was aimed at investigating whether elementary schools in this municipality still had English subject in their curriculum as the regulation did not oblige to do so. The data gained from the questionnaires and interviews with Elementary School Principals revealed that English teaching was undertaken beyond the general policy. Almost all of the participating schools taught this subject to their students, even some still included it as a local content subject and a compulsory subject. Furthermore, the participating schools gave various answers about the grade level from which English subject was given. Although higher number of schools informed that they started teaching English since Grade 4, many others started the English lesson from the first grade. In conclusion, most of the schools still regard English as one of the important subjects that their students need to learn at school.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Diah Royani Meisani
AU  - Bachrudin Musthafa
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TI  - Responses towards Policy on TEYL in Elementary Schools: A case study in Malang City
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