WHY ENGLISH SHOULDN’T BE OMITTED IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Since the curriculum of 2013
or mostly known as the national curriculum has been applied in the year of
2013, there’s much more changes in the educational system. This curriculum is
not only influencing the educational system that will applied in the each
schools or any educational institution in Indonesia, but also it impacts into
the subjects that will learned in the classroom in every single level of
education. In the curriculum of 2013 (national curriculum) there’s some
subjects that is omitted such as Computer science for the High School level and
English for the Elementary School level. This is become a big problem for the
educational system in our country since we know that the curriculum of 2013 or
national curriculum is based on the computerization.
This computerization base,
is using English as the language that commonly used for every single operating
system in the computer. It is very okay
for the schools or any educational institutions that located in the big city
which have good facilities, because it will improve their educational program
into much better. This kind of schools have been accustomed to use any modern
facilities in every single activities in the classrooms, such as the using of
the technology of Information and computers, projectors, or any other
facilities that considered as a modern technology in education. It is very
different of course with the condition of the schools and the educational
institution in the local areas.
The schools and the other
educational institution which is located in the local area do not have any
facilities as good as the schools and the other educational institutions in the
big cities as well. They do not accustomed to use the modern technology such as
the projectors or any modern tools because mostly they even don’t know how to
use the computers in the properly ways. Just a few of them who can use it well
and this people are limited, that might be just the operators or a few
headmasters who know about this, especially for the elementary schools level.
This case is happened because of the lack of the socialization and the
information towards this problem.
The teachers of the
elementary schools are mostly graduated from the special educational
universities that specifically studied about how to teach the elementary
student. This makes they don’t mastering English or any computer field as well
because in the elementary schools these subjects are not studied. It is of
course impact into the teacher understanding of the using of English and
computer. Based on these problems, the application of the national curriculum
will not be going well, because to apply this curriculum which based on the
computerization system the teachers should be mastering English and the
computer science first as well. Without this, they will found many problems in
the way they apply this program.
By omitting the computer
science for the High School level and English for the Elementary School level,
it will become a barrier to apply this educational program. Why?
Firstly, computer is using
English as the programming language. Till now, Indonesia has no production of
the computer or any modern technology which use the Indonesian language as the
programming language. This is because of the base of every single programs are
come from the other country, which means using English as the programming
language. We even don’t know how to use computers without any guide to use it.
This guiding, we can make it sure, that it must be use English. This is the
main reason why English shouldn’t be omitted. By maintaining English as the
subject that will be learned in the elementary school, it can be he way for the
teacher to more understand how to use the computers or any modern technology in
the appropriate ways.
Secondly, English will be
learned in the next level of education. Even though the elementary schools
didn’t study about English before, but still, English will be learned in the
next level of education. The big problem that might be appear is when the
students are given the English subject by the teacher in the High Schools level,
for example, they wouldn’t have any basic of English. It is very impossible for
the teacher in high school to teach the very basic English such as alphabetic,
numbers, the name of animals, fruits or the things around them. These kind of
subjects should be learned since the very beginning they study, that is in
elementary school. When they have known these basic of English, they just have
to continue into the other materials.
We can imagine that it will
be very hard and wasting time to teach the high school student the very basic
English while they should study the harder material than this. So it is very
good for the students to get the very basic English since they were in the
elementary school. Besides they can learn the pronunciation on how the words
are saying by imitating the teacher. This is only can be done by repeating what
the teacher said in many times so they are accustomed to say the English words
easily. The pronunciation of the teacher is become the very important thing
because it would be so fatal when the teacher teach the wrong pronunciation of
the word to the students. The students in the elementary school mostly 6 to 12
years old student that have a long term memory which will be remember all the
things that they have learned when they are child.
Thirdly, by giving the
English education to the elementary students, it could be their characteristic
ability to learn the other language. The teachers in elementary schools mostly
conducted many kind of contest for the elementary students level, and one of
the contest is English contest. In this contest, generally the contest of story telling or even the speech. So by this
contest, the students can be channelize their passion, desire and ability of
English. Besides when the students get the achievement for the contest, it will
make the better reputation of the school and become the pride of the school and
parents.
The next reason why English
shouldn’t be omitted in the elementary school is because it is really helpful
for the elementary students to mastering the other subjects when they have been
mastering English well. By the collaborative learning which is related to the
other subjects, not only one subject, English learning can help them to more
understand the other subject, such as mathematics, and social science. Then how
English can be so helpful for the other subjects for the elementary students?
Well, as we know together
that English is not only studying about the language itself, but also the
culture of the country that use English as their daily communication. In
English, the students is not only study about the vocabularies, but also the
aritmethics, social and cultures. In aritmathic, the students are learned about
the counting, the terminology that commonly used in mathematic in English and
so on. The terminologies are such as plus (+), minus (-), devided (/) and times
(x). On the other side, the social and cultures is learned by how to speak with
others in appropriate way with full of respectful and affections. The studied
of social and cultures are such as the using of “please” and how to congrats or
giving a compliment to someone else, and so on.
Furthermore, English help
the students to apply the other science in the pronunciation such as the
religion. As a Muslim, we must be have learned about the letter in Arabic or
mostly known as Hijaiyyah letter. Hijaiyyah letter has similar pronunciation
with English, so it can be the way for the students to make it much better
rather than do not learned about this.
As the final, we can considered
that English is really important for our educational program in the curriculum
of 2013 or mostly known as the national curriculum because of some reasons.
These reasons are it’s very good for the teacher to be mastered as the way to
mastering the computer science for them. Besides that, it will really helpful
for the elementary students to mastering and learning English in the next level
of education. On the other hand, English has a relationship with the
computerization as the base of the curriculum 2013. So, for those reasons. I do
believe that English is shouldn’t be omitted from the elementary school.
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