Introducing Ecolinguistics in EFL Classroom

DOI

10.2991/ictte-18.2018.70How to use a DOI?

Keywords

curriculum, ecolinguistics, local content, ecolinguistic-based lesson plan

Abstract

Referring to the new policy on National Curriculum of 2013, in which one of its objectives is to empower teachers to develop the potential of the region, and answering the gap between the curriculum demand on the local content development and the lack of local content development on the provided materials being used to teach English in Central Kalimantan, this paper attempts to introduce ecolinguistics as the local content development in EFL classrooms of Junior High School level. The ecolinguistics inserted in the lesson plan is a narrative text of a local story, and a procedure text of how to make traditional soup from young rattan. The teaching model was executed in SMPN 1 and SMPN 3, Kuala Kapuas. The teaching English using ecolinguistics was completed with exercises for students to comprehend meanings of a lexicon list of environmental expressions taken from the texts and use them in their writing. Understanding ecolinguistics – the use of environmental linguistic expressions will lead to a meaningful teaching and learning process. Therefore, as the follow-up it is necessary to develop instructional material consisting of environmental linguistic expressions.

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© 2018, 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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Maria Luardini
AU  - Erna Sujiyani
PY  - 2018/09
DA  - 2018/09
TI  - Introducing Ecolinguistics in EFL Classroom
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2018 (ICTTE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 375
EP  - 382
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ictte-18.2018.70
DO  - 10.2991/ictte-18.2018.70
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