By Satria Onny Firmanto
LBPP LIA as the biggest non formal language institute in Indonesia, commemorating its 50th anniversary, launches a series of workshops and seminars in 10 main cities in Indonesia including Jakarta, Bekasi, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Padang, Palembang, Pontianak, Banjarmasin, and Makassar. The topic for the programs is “Learing English and Content: Enhancing Students’ Ability in Using English to Learn and Learning to Use English” featuring Ms. Selestin Zainuddin, M. Hum and Mr. Ali Aljufri, SPd from Teacher Training and Development Sub-directorate as the key speakers.
LBPP LIA Surabaya hosted the seminar and workshop on December 10th 2009. Since the program was also used as a marketing move, that is to introduce its new building, the seminar and workshop were held in Jalan Ngagel Jaya number 8. Forty eight teachers from at least 15 schools in Surabaya participated in the program. Due to their various backgrounds, the participants were divided into 2 classes for English Language Teacher (ELT) and English Content Teacher (ECT). The program covered 3 sessions: A presentation on “An Introduction to Content and Language Integrated Learning”, a workshop on “The Implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Classroom and a question and answer session on “Challenges for English Teachers in Implementing Content and Language Integrated Learning”.
The participants gave positive feedbacks to the program. Ms. Alfiah, a science teacher, said that the program has given an insight on CLIL that she has never got before. Mr. Warsito, a Mathematics teacher, stated that the program was very beneficial mainly for the ECT teacher since it introduces a new teaching pedagogy. The speaker helped him to understand bilingual concept better through CLIL. He hoped that LBPP LIA could hold another event with different topics to enrich the knowledge of the teachers in Surabaya.(SOF)