Incorporating Local Culture in English Classroom to Create Cultural Resilience

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10.2991/978-2-38476-348-1_3How to use a DOI?

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Biculturalism; cultural resilience; native culture; English teaching and learning activities

Abstract

English is compulsory for junior and senior high school students and an elective subject for elementary school students in Indonesia. English is taught in five aspects: reading, listening, grammar, writing, and speaking. Therefore, indirectly, students learn the culture and communication methods of native English speakers. However, learning English is not always about understanding the culture of native English speakers. In English teaching and learning activities, local culture can also be used. This article is written based on the author’s experience when she taught English in two different remote areas of Indonesia, Deiyai Regency, Papua, and Tulang Bawang Barat Regency, Lampung, in the 2014/2015 academic year, and 2016. Because those schools are in two different regions, students have different cultures. This is the main reason the author determined that teaching materials should be based on the native culture of students. This article explores local culture’s use in English teaching and learning activities to foster cultural resilience. The data of this article were the author’s teaching experiences in Papua and Lampung. Then, the data were analyzed using cultural resilience theory. The analysis result shows that using local culture in English classrooms gives students cultural resilience because when learning how native English speakers communicate the students do not lose their native culture. However, they learn to communicate in English using their native culture or traditions in the form of biculturalism.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Antonia Rahayu Rosaria Wibowo
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/12/31
TI  - Incorporating Local Culture in English Classroom to Create Cultural Resilience
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th Celt International Conference (CIC 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 25
EP  - 35
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-348-1_3
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-348-1_3
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