This essay aims at suggesting a new paradigm in teaching English for the new millenium. We usually identify the 21st century as the era of knowledge, information, communication, and culture. The written language form is getting more focus, as the age ...
This essay aims at suggesting a new paradigm in teaching English for the new millenium. We usually identify the 21st century as the era of knowledge, information, communication, and culture. The written language form is getting more focus, as the age of computerized telecommunication is approaching. A nation's prestige, prosperity, and welfare depend more than ever on the software, such as cultural and knowledge industries. To cope with the 21st century globalized competitive society, we should foster in advance a new generation with feeling, fiction(imagination), femininity (3 Fs) plus with creativity, competitiveness, and competence (3 Cs).
In this context the First Chapter provides a preview of the 21st century society and an overview of the 7th curriculum. Chapter 2 draws focus on the 7th extracurriculum and the existing extracurriculum activities under the 6th extracurriculum in the primary school as well. Chapter 3 argues how critical the integrating language teaching is and offers the most prominent, appropriate, integrating language teaching of EFL extracurriculum activities for the primary students. They are Topic-based, Story-based, and Drama-based approaches. Chapter 4 offers the summary of conclusion of integrating language teaching through Topic-based Storytelling and Topic-based Dramatizing.
The EFL teaching-learning through 'Dramatizing' and 'Storytelling' enable learners to intake foreign language in a childlike, unanalytical, unconscious cognitive processing through various authentic interactive language activities. Language acquisition through real interactive use without conscious working load may be ideal. It is needless to say how both story and drama are crucial to language learning and encouraging of imagination, creativity, spiritual values, and an insight into life with ease and excellence as well.
This study is not only for many teachers who want to refresh themselves English teaching in general, especially in the extracurriculum activities. It is also for prospective teachers who need to learn how to run English extracurriculum classes.