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What is Pedagogy?• According to Cambridge Dictionaries Online, pedagogy is defined as the
study of the methods and activities of teaching.
• Therefore, TESL pedagogy is the methods and activities used in teaching and learning English as a Second Language.
Source: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/pedagogy
TESL Pedagogy• When focusing on speaking skill, one of the method that can be used to teach English language is
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT).
• Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) aims broadly to apply the theoretical perspective of the
Communicative Approach by making communicative competence the goal of language teaching and
by acknowledging the interdependence of language and communication (Freeman, 2000).
• This method is to enable the learner to communicate effectively and appropriately in the various
situations she would be likely to find herself in. In other words, its goal is to make use of real-life
situations that necessitate communication.
Source: Freeman D.L. (2000). Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching. Oxford University Press.
How Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Can Be Used to Educate The Diverse Generation?
Through activity such as sharing information.
• Sharing information:
• The students are encourage to speak from their own experiences and share
information about their family’s ethnic background.
• This includes what are “Do’s & don’ts” in their culture.
• For example, in Malay culture, they really emphasize on the aspect of politeness.
They really stressed on the aspect of when addressing people especially to someone
older than them like ‘abang’, ‘kakak’, ‘along’, ‘ayah’, ‘ibu’ and so on. Unlike people in
westerner where they can easily addressing their own parents by their name.
• Other example is when serving food for certain occasion. Other cultures need to be
aware that they could not serve pork to the Muslims.
• By having this activity, it will increase cultural awareness of students from different
culture.
• Tolinson and Masuhara (2004) also agree that an increased cultural awareness helps
learners broaden the mind, increase tolerance and achieve cultural empathy and
sensitivity.
• In short, they will learn to respect other culture and be more sensitive not to touch the
cultural sentiment.
Source : Tomlinson, B., & Musuhara, H. (2004). Developing cultural awareness. MET, 13(1), 1–7