The Teaching Of English In An Indonesian Islamic Boarding School: Design, Enactment, And Hindrances

Abstract

The present study described good practices, supporting learning factors, and language learning focus of students in English learning at Nurul Jadid by employing a qualitative research approach. The data were collected through observation, interview, and documentation from 60 students of an elementary, intermediate, and advanced level of 2019 academic year. The result shows that students of Nurul Jadid use English as their lingua franca to communicate with each other to make them comprehend the language directly. However to reach the goal of learning English effectively in Nurul Jadid, teachers select implicit and explicit learning activities in their extra-curricular programs such as; (1) speech, (2) discussion, (3) debate, (4) showing-opinion, (5) composing, (6) translation, (7) rooms-competition, (8) morning-talk, (9) native-day, (10) audio-visual, (11) quiz, and (12) evaluation-meeting. Besides, the study also shows that teachers of Nurul Jadid utilize some supporting learning factors to encourage the good practice of the learning process. They are curriculum used, the role of human resources, environmental setting, rules-obedient, and motivation effect. In addition, the finding also shows the language learning focus of the students of FLDI. The elementary student is the low-level that focuses on learning language structures, and the intermediate student is the medium-level that focuses on learning language application or language function. The advanced student is the high-level who learn about metalinguistic awareness or advance communication knowledge.