Integrating Character Values in English Teaching Material: Nurturing Students’ Awareness on Environmental Caring
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education (IOSRJRME) - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 6
Abstract
Many of the textbook developers do not take a great concern on the crucial importance of the teaching material for building students’ character on environmental caring for not so many English books contain such character. The fact that teaching material is often considered to be the psychological nutrient for students since it is through the teaching material, students explore, elaborate, and digest the content of the teaching material which unconciously be absorbed and stored in their mind as their knowledge and psychological property. The reason why students often do vandalism, scratching public facilities like buses, trains, or building is assumed to be the lack of the knowledge of the environmental caring. This research aims at developing an English teaching material based on the environmental caring character with the expectation to find out its contribution to the awareness of the students’ environmental caring character. It employs research and development (R&D) design with the participants of 306 students and 25 English teachers taken randomly from 10 Junior High Schools in Semarang City. Data were collected through questionnaire and the result shows that 72% of the respondents (teachers) expect that the learning material in the English textbook should provide texts or dialogues which contain the character of environmental caring. Likewise, 64.6% of the students also expect that English teaching material contains environmental caring character building. Thus, developing English teaching material based on the environmental caring character for the Junior High school students is of crucial importance to fulfill the needs of the students and teachers so that they, particularly students will not only learn English but also learn how to take care of the environment.
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Suwandi . , Seno Warsito, Th. Cicik Sophia B
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