EFL Lecturers’ Attitude and Approach in Supporting Language Power in Their Classroom Practices

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Markus Deli Girik Allo, Muhammad Asfah Rahman, Sultan Baa

2023 AIP Conference Proceedings Vol. 2736 Issue 1 Conference paper Cited by 0 Quartile

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the EFL lecturers' attitude and approach in supporting Language Power in their Classroom Practices. This study applied the qualitative research method. The subjects of this research are four Lecturers and fifteen students and they chose by using purposeful sampling. Research instruments used are interviews and observation. The technique of data analysis used for Interviews is a thematic analysis and iterative model for observation. This study showed that the EFL lecturers of the English Study Program of FKIP UKI Toraja perceive language power into three categories: strongly supportive of language power (SSLP), fairly supportive of language power (FSLP), and weakly supportive of language power (WSLP). The characteristic of the SSLP lecturer's approach is a constructivist approach to language power use, FSLP lecturers' approach is varied approaches to language power use from students-centered to more teacher-centered, WSLP lecturer's approach is the teacher-centered approach to language power use. © 2023 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.

Affiliations

English Education Program, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Makassar, Indonesia