Indonesian Efl Learners’ Attitude And Perception On Taks-Based Language Teaching

Muhammad Badrus Sholeh, Kisman Salija, - Sahril

Abstract


Task-based Language Teaching in Asia, especially Indonesia, was more popular in foreign language English teaching. The approach that focuses on the student is regarded to be more efficient than the traditional one. This study was undertaken so as to find out the attitude and perspective of learners regarding implementing language teaching based on tasks (TBLT). 96 learners of the Islamic Junior high school in Indonesia were randomly selected. In order to investigate participants' attitudes and perceptions a task based questionnaire has been designed. By employing the Likert Scale, data were evaluated quantitatively. The results of the study demonstrate that most EFL Indonesian learners have generally good attitudes and views concerning TBLT and so most of them like to join in TBLT English class. In other words, EFL learners are ready to adapt to a new methods of language learning because they are willing to apply TBLT successfully. In this study, some major issues highlighted by the results will be examined and some significant suggestions made by the results are discussed.

 


Keywords


EFL learner; Task-based Language Teaching; attitude; perception; Indonesia

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2021.45.3.109-127
Date of publication: 2021-10-07 12:44:52
Date of submission: 2021-07-03 06:34:16


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