The Investigating Teachers Beliefs About Language Awareness in EFL Context in Indonesia

Abstract

This research was aimed to find out teachers’ beliefs about language awareness in EFL context in Indonesia. This study used qualitative cased study as a method to gaining a data and describe the data. This research was taken by interview by techers in seconday-school in Karawang. Collecting data used an interview to asnwers two questions which presented. Conflicts were established in the context of learning for students, cooperation with teachers, the curriculum, and the relationship with other languages. The outcome shows a variety of issues that need to be tackled when foreign language education requires language knowledge. Such difficulties may serve as a starting point for a conversation with and between educators. In addition, they could help teaching.

Keyworld: language awareness, teachers beliefs, EFL, Second language learning, Secondary-school