Text-Based Language Teaching in the New-Normal Era to Achieve Communicative Competence: Challenges for EFL Teachers (A Reflection)

Katharina, Rustipa and Yulistiyanti, Yulistiyanti and Sri, Mulatsih Text-Based Language Teaching in the New-Normal Era to Achieve Communicative Competence: Challenges for EFL Teachers (A Reflection). RIEPT JOURNAL Jonamsl of Linguisc ered English Teaching.

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Abstract

To live in this communicative era, people need to have communicative competence. The main aim of ELT is to enable the students to communicate or to produce a text. Thus, EFL teaching needs to facilitate them to achieve communicative competence so that they can participate actively in their communities. EFL teachers can utilize text-based teaching to realize this. Text-based teaching involves the use of texts, which are context bases for achieving communicative competence. This paper is a reflection, describing the teachers' common problems in implementing text-based teaching, especially under the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodology: This study is qualitative survey research to gain in-depth information about the topic of the study. The goal of this study is to describe the teachers’ perception of Text-Based Approach in ELT and to describe their challenges to implement text-based online teaching. Open-ended survey questions were delivered to 15 research participants. To get a comprehensive understanding of the research participants’ opinions, the researchers followed up their answers with an interview via a telephone call. Findings: The questionnaire, interview, and teachers’ self-written reflection revealed the teachers’ common problems in implementing text-based teaching, i.e. in selecting texts. in adapting or in modifying texts, in designing tasks, in overcoming students’ boredom, besides the problems of online teaching. Conclusion: 2 The main root of the problems is the teachers’ lack of knowledge of text-based approach. Thus, updating the teachers’ knowledge can be one of the solutions to the problems. Ke

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Faculty / Institution:	Fakultas Bahasa dan Ilmu Budaya
Depositing User:	Fakultas Ekonomi
Date Deposited:	05 Apr 2023 05:43
Last Modified:	05 Apr 2023 05:43
URI:	https://eprints.unisbank.ac.id/id/eprint/9186

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