EFL Teachers’ Reconciliation with Moral Forces Brought into Curriculum

Qoyyimah, Uswatun (2016) EFL Teachers’ Reconciliation with Moral Forces Brought into Curriculum. In: 14th AsiaTEFL@11th FEELTA International Conference on Language Teaching, June 30 - July 02, 2016, Vladivostok, Russia.

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This paper presents EFL teachers’ strategies when reconciling with moral forces underpinning Indonesian curricula: School-based curriculum and character education policy. While School-based curriculum allows teachers to develop more flexible EFL classes, the character education policy promotes such controlled EFL classes that the teachers are required to focus on students’ moral behaviour. The moral forces of the school-based curriculum resonate with communicative language teaching regarding the teachers’ opportunity for developing teaching materials to meet learners’ needs. This paper suggests that the EFL teachers have particular dilemmas as they attempt to embrace the moral forces of two curricula. Keywords: EFL teachers, character education, curriculum reform, moral forces, pedagogic practice

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