DESIGNING LANGUAGE CLASSROOM TO EMERGE STUDENTS’ BETTER ATTITUDES: SOCIAL-AWARENESS, SELF-CONFIDENCE, AND PRIDE

Abstract

Education is a process to build one’s character. However,  most of  language  lecturers  commonly focus their instructions on the teaching method/technique to teach language skills. In fact, character  building still becomes an “unconsidered” aspect in practice. Consequently, the teaching of language is not providing knowledge of life, but only knowledge of the language rule.  Shortly, the teaching  of character  in  language  classroom remains  “untouched”.  To face ASEAN  Economic Community, certain  attitudes  are indisputably needed to support the condition.  This  paper  attempts to  discuss how language classroom is designed to facilitate students emerge their better attitudes. Three kinds of attitudes:  social awareness, self-confidence, and pride  will be  discussed  deeply  and the way to emerge the attitudes will be explored and elaborated comprehensively.