All levels Teachers, Curricula and Classrooms Presentation
Negotiating beliefs and practices: Dilemmas promoting ER to secondary teachers
The study presents facilitators’ reflections of preparing and conducting a 3-day national workshop sponsored by The Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture. The topic was how to implement Extensive and Intensive Reading and targeted to both language and non-language teachers at Junior High School level. The workshop was conducted in a hybrid mode. The participants were EFL university lecturers who are members of an ER association in Indonesia and served as facilitators in the workshop. The data was collected from the participants’ reflection using CARL (context, action, result, and lessons) framework. The findings revealed a gap between facilitators’ beliefs of ideal practices of ER and the workshop implementation. Some emerging themes in the findings included lowering expectations, negotiating values, and anticipating changes when preparing and delivering the workshop. The findings also implied that a short-term workshop is not sufficient in increasing teachers' awareness of and competence in conducting ER. Continuing professional development in the area of ER and maintaining sustainable commitment of policy makers and facilitators are necessary to ensure ER implementation. The results of the study were expected to enlighten policy makers, teachers, and ER practitioners of ER practices and promotions.
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Fenty is a senior English teacher at Maranatha Christian University. Currently she is the chair of Indonesian Extensive Reading Indonesia.
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Evi Puspitasari is a teacher in English Language Education Department of Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Indonesia. She obtained her master’s degree in English Language Studies focusing on Education from Sanata Dharma University. Her research interests are in English Language Teaching, Creative Teaching, EFL Reading, Teacher Education, and Professional Learning. She can be contacted at email: evipuspitasari@fpb.umy.ac.id
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Anik Nunuk Wulyani is a faculty member of the Department of English, Universitas Negeri Malang (UM). She obtained her master degree in Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung, Indonesia and a doctorate degree from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her research interests include teacher professional development (TPD) and TEFL.
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Rusiana is a faculty member in English Education Department of Universitas Muria Kudus, Indonesia. Currently, she is teaching Vocabulary Building, Teaching English to Young Learners, and Extensive Reading subjects. Her research interests are mainly on those three but not limited to.
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Pratiwi Retnaningdyah is a lecturer at the English Literature Study Program, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia. Her research interests are postcolonial literature, popular culture studies, new literacy studies, and the teaching of literature.