Local Wisdom-based EFL Teaching: Internalizing the Values of Local Culture to Millennial Learners

Abstract

Millennial learners have dynamics ways of thinking. Moreover, they also think and solve problems faster than the previous generation. It is because; these learners live in the era of industrial 4.0 where informatics technology spreads in all aspects of human life. Therefore, these characteristics lead the millennial learners to seem perfect. Millennial learners can learn many skills for their future life easily through their gadgets. One of the skills that should be mastered by the millennial is English. However, the goal of teaching and learning English is not only improving linguistics competence but also building the good character of the learners. Therefore, this research aims at guiding them to learn the target language. On the other hand, this research also aims to assist them in always remaining their local wisdom, build their local wisdom based character, and promotes their local culture globally. It is applied by internalizing the local cultural values to the learners in EFL teaching. This research is descriptive qualitative that describing the process of internalizing the local culture in the process of EFL teaching especially descriptive writing. This research was conducted in the third semester of the English department in UIN Raden Intan Lampung. In conducting the teaching and learning process the lecturers choose authentic materials that deal with the local culture of Lampung. Then, the students find the values of the culture and describe the values in terms of descriptive writing.

Preparing the Community Based Education of Socio-Cultural Oriented for Children in the Industrial Revolution Era of 4.0

“…Models that can be developed in this teaching are to apply the problembased learning model or project-based learning. In this way, educational institutions can strengthen the focus of value investment of ethics, morality, nationalism and socio-cultural understanding among millennial students by strengthening their cognitive and technological mastery (Hasyim, 2020). Therefore, the government together with the ministry of education and culture urge all educational institutions both formal and informal education should be able to take advantages of technology advances for improving the quality of education in all domains, cognitive, affective, psychomotor and strengthening the socio-cultural understanding in the national life through the readiness of educational institutions for applying the information technology is developing into education management are built.…”