EMPOWERING ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS SELECTION THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SERVICE LEARNING

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Safriyani, Rizka (2016) EMPOWERING ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING MATERIALS SELECTION THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SERVICE LEARNING. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on University-Community Engagement, 2 – 5 Agustus 2016, Surabaya – Indonesia.

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Abstract

A teacher is a course designer and materials provider. The selected materials should be useful, meaningful and interesting for students. Some teachers do not care a lot about materials selection and they may select any material or even use the same ones every time. In fact, this may demotivate their students. This is why, teachers’ candidate should be able to do a good material selection. This paper will describe how service learning is used to empower English Language Teaching (ELT) Materials Selection done in the final project of the Prose Class and the students reflection about the service learning. Private and Public Schools around Surabaya, Gresik, and Sidoarjo are chosen by the students to be the community partner in empowering students ELT Materials Selection. The result shows that service learning is helpful to empower students ability in selecting ELT Materials. Both students and the community partner get the mutual benefit based on their need. Students reflections shows positive response to the service learning process.