INVIGORATING THE EFL STUDENTS IN ACQUIRING NEW LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE: LANGUAGE LEARNING THROUGH PROJECTS

Andriani, Agis and abdullah, Fuad (2017) INVIGORATING THE EFL STUDENTS IN ACQUIRING NEW LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE: LANGUAGE LEARNING THROUGH PROJECTS. Proceedings THE 4th INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGE TEACHING CONFERENCE. ISSN 978-602-6369-93-5

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Abstract

English as an International Language has contradicted to another paradigm (the Old Native-Speaker Dominated Framework) (Llurda, 2014) adoring the native English language teachers as demigods in EFL contexts currently. However, such problems remain fossilized because of the insufficient awareness of the EFL teachers on their roles as the non-native ones. Hence, Project-Based Learning was implemented to invigorate their linguistic competences and performances to be relatively comparable to the native English language teachers. This study involved 98 EFL students of a state university in Tasikmalaya, West Java. The data were collected through field notes and document analysis. They were analyzed based on the steps of conducting PBL. The findings revealed that PBL facilitated the students to invigorate their cognition, work ethics and interpersonal skills, provoked their serious thinking processes, attained their linguistic competences and performances and maintained their identities as NNSTs. Keywords: linguistic knowledge, EFL students, PBL

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