Text-based learning in EFL classrooms: Problems and strategies viewed from the sociocultural approach

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10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.29How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Text-based learning, Sociocultural Approach, reflective practice

Abstract

Text-based Learning (TBL) has been extensively employed in EFL classrooms in Indonesia. The 2013 curriculum requires teachers to exploit the structure of various texts for communicative purposes. Similarly, in tertiary level, lecturers do the same thing for teaching reading, speaking, writing, and even listening.  It is true that some literature offer the merits of using text-based learning. However, we also need to listen to EFL teachers’ real practice, so when implementing it in our own classroom, we, teachers, can anticipate the problem and implement the text-based learning well. This paper is aimed at presenting EFL pre-service teachers’ problems and strategies in their first-time teaching English using Text-based learning viewed from the sociocultural approach. This study involved 10 student-teachers from Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana who were taking their microteaching class. The sources of data used were reflective journal, post-observation reflective writing, and critical-friends-group (CFG) reflective writing. Those sources are sociocultural mediational tools that facilitate student-respondents to discuss with their peers and teacher and then to reflect their problems and strategies used for better text-based learning. By so doing, the problems and strategies are not only individually developed but also socially developed through social interaction or what so-called the sociocultural approach. This study is useful for secondary school teachers, lecturers, student-teachers, and policymakers in planning and implementing text-based learning

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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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