Sekolah Ciputra is a school which has more than five nationalities of its students. Most of them use English as their language of instruction at school. However their mother tongue is not English. Sometimes they are struggling with three languages, English, Indonesian, and their own mother tongue, in a very early years of school (primary or even kindergarten). Looking at this phenomena, I am taking my initiative this year to do my group research (Personal Learning Community) to find out the strategies to understand English better as additional language for the students in order to make their communication skills better.
We conclude that basically there are some important matters which need to be addressed in order to make EAL works in our school and here are some of our findings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09PrmLppQ1A
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/5742380-strategies
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-q__XU5ycp-mw2DzicEPjepBlrphrRUucxijk0C5vIY/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KrXOOliShYDFGDUkMEdJl6vhPknlVOdkEhqiex-3_Hg/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17FTqWoGeFcgfovODggORsHR5GIQirnjP3diPvG-NA4Y/edit
We conclude that basically there are some important matters which need to be addressed in order to make EAL works in our school and here are some of our findings.
- On the first two years of children's life they should be introduced only with their mother tongue
- We can start to introduce EAL when the children have already recognize their mother tongue and they start to go to school (at least 3 years old)
- School should build positive relationship with parents
- Bilingual support e.g. pushed in the mother tongue in the classroom
- Have key person for EAL
- Supporting environment
- Ongoing learning and development
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09PrmLppQ1A
https://magic.piktochart.com/output/5742380-strategies
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-q__XU5ycp-mw2DzicEPjepBlrphrRUucxijk0C5vIY/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KrXOOliShYDFGDUkMEdJl6vhPknlVOdkEhqiex-3_Hg/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17FTqWoGeFcgfovODggORsHR5GIQirnjP3diPvG-NA4Y/edit