MENGINTEGRASIKAN KEARIFAN LOKAL PEKALONGAN DALAM PEMBELAJARAN BAHASA INGGRIS UNTUK MEMBENTUK KARAKTER SISWA UNTUK MENGHADAPI MASYARAKAT EKONOMI ASEAN

  • Dwi Ario Fajar Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Pekalongan
  • Susanto Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris Universitas Pekalongan
Keywords: English Teaching, Local Wisdom

Abstract

English teaching doesn’t accommodate local wisdom in teaching process or in the content of the material, furthermore Indonesia as one of Asean Economic Communities member. A lot of English texts in English books are about western stories or stories from other regions. English teaching is limited on the teaching of sentence phrases or words without giving emphasis on the meaning and local culture to create meaningful English teaching not in character building. This research aim to trace, describe and find Pekalongan local wisdoms to be applied in English teaching in the class to support student character building.The output of this research is material enrichment for English teaching material. The method used in this research is human and resource development research. The result of this research are; 1) the distinct character of Pekalongan people are religious, entrepreneur ethos/ autonomous, tolerance, and egalitarian. Religious character become the foundation and basis of other characters; 2) those distinct character can be integrated in teaching process and material; 3) Teaching material is completed with teacher book which give direction to the teacher specially about the interpretation of local wisdom value so that it will be suitable with Curriculum.

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