Model of Language Competence Upgrading Program for English Teachers in Indonesia
- DOI
- 10.2991/soshec-17.2018.53How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- professional development, english language teacher, language competence
- Abstract
This paper aims at proposing a concept in maintaining English language teachers language proficiency as an inseparable part of their professionalism. Reviewing several previous researches dealing with English language teaching and English teachers professional development is the method used in this paper. It leads to a concept of the language competence upgrading program due to the fact that until today the EFL English as Foreign Language teachers language competence are still considered low and also many of the professional development program give a small proportion toward the language competence of the EFL teachers. The model is a 2 day upgrading program covering the practices and exercises in the four language skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing. It has specific materials for each of the skills. The information on how ICT can be used for the improvement and practice of the language skills. The impact is to give assurance that a professional English teacher should be able to show the enhancement of teachers teaching knowledge and skills, especially in English language proficiency skills. The end result the teachers effort is their achievement of goals and students better performance.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Him'mawan Nugroho PY - 2017/10 DA - 2017/10 TI - Model of Language Competence Upgrading Program for English Teachers in Indonesia BT - Proceedings of Social Sciences, Humanities and Economics Conference (SoSHEC 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 264 EP - 267 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/soshec-17.2018.53 DO - 10.2991/soshec-17.2018.53 ID - Nugroho2017/10 ER -