Name : Anis Septianingsih
Class : 4E
NPM :
1910631060066
Journal : ‘Rethinking
the Objectives of Teaching English in Asia’ by Z. N. Patil
Journal Review
A
journal by Z. N. Patil called ‘Rethinking the Objectives of Teaching English in
Asia’ attempts to explain how there is an urgent need to rethink the objectives
of teaching English as a second and foreign language, and how it is imperative
to place confidence building, fluency and appropriateness before accuracy, and
narrates the author’s personal views on this issue.
Most
students in some Asian countries are diffident when it comes to using English. The
biggest challenge for a teacher of English in such countries is to help students
overcome shyness, inhibitions and nervousness. As we know, in Asian countries
English is either a foreign language or a second language. Families do not
speak English at home; employees do not use English in the office, at the
station, at the post office, and even at the airport, etc. The only place where
English has some privilege is the English classroom. And even there teachers and
students use their native language quite extensively.
The
advantage of this journal is that Z. N. Patil highlighted a few important
issues and priorities on how to enable the students to use English confidently,
appropriately and accurately. He also provided his own respective standardized
varieties of English as models for teaching and testing purposes should not be hard
because many of us are in influential decision-making positions, and we are
responsible for syllabus designing, materials production, teaching and
evaluation.
Though
there is also a drawback in this journal, it seems that the author, Z. N. Patil
wrote this journal mostly based on his experience of teaching English in Asia
so far. There is less data to support his statements, so we do not know for
sure if his suggestions or recommendations will work for the majority of
English teachers.
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