English Language Practices: Reflecting on Teachers’ and Students’ Belief

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10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.51How to use a DOI?

Keywords

belief; language; teachers; students

Abstract

Belief takes an important role in both philosophy and education fields. Having known this, constructing belief is one of the most basic and essential features in someone’s mind in which it relates to attitudes that he or she performs something and considers it as true. In relation to English language, teachers and students also have their own belief. Teachers’ belief in English tends to have a personal issue which differs from one another reflecting on standard models of educational theory within their instructional performances. In the same line, students’ belief in English also derives them to be successful in their education using different learning styles and strategies when dealing with language learning. This research is a qualitative study that aimed to describe belief in English language from both teachers’ and students’ perspectives. The participants of this study were five language teachers and five students. Teachers’ and students’ varied opinion on, feeling of, and knowledge of the issue raised were gathered using interview. The results revealed that teachers’ and students’ belief in language influenced how they address issues related to English language in which they are applied in their life performances. Those issues, however, help both of them in reflecting and developing their language performances that are not only occurred in social, but also in educational field. Furthermore, both of them argue that language is important in which it helps them to communicate and/or convey something such as idea and opinions, and share and/or get knowledge. Hence, their perspective as English language is served as one of essential parts existed in their life becomes fundamental notion that helps them in determining their social and education performances to be a better person throughout their life.

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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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