The implication of bilingualism in EFL classroom: An investigation of teaching and learning in English department

Abstract

Bilingualism is used as a cover term for multilingualism, too – speaking more than two languages. Some researchers use the term plurilingualism for speaking more than two languages. few bilinguals are as proficient in any second language as they are in their first language. This research aims to determine the implication of bilingualism in EFL classroom. Descriptive qualitative is used as a research approach and its application uses phenomenology methods. The findings showed that the implication of bilingualism to students’ speaking. The implication is about interact and apply the lecturer’ utterance. It can be said this implication related to the students’ understanding of the word meaning in speaking. Second implication from the observation data is about students’ comprehension in a certain word, such as compounding. The lecturer used bilingualism to explain the meaning of the word. By using Bahasa, the students were easier to understand the lecturer statement. In this case, the students knew what the lecturer’ uttered and finally they could know the meaning of the word. Keywords: bilingualism; implication; EFL classroom; teaching and learning

Pre-Course Inquiries

“…The code switching and/or mixing between L2 and L1 is intended to facilitate learners to catch up with difficult or unfamiliar words, complex ideas. It is in line with result of research conducted by (Chairuddin & Aditya, 2021) which figured out that by using code switching, students understood the instruction, explanation, and another thing related to the teaching and learning process. In that research, the researcher believed that bilingualism had positive implication to the students' speaking achievement.…”

Bilingualism Effect in Learning English Process (Study at Sma 3 Tana-Toraja)

“…Here, the lecturer used bilingualism in explaining the meaning of the word to ease the students in understanding the lecturer statement. The students knew what the lecturer said and finally know the meaning of the word (Chairuddin & Aditya, 2021). Also, bilingualism affects various implication for language teachers and policy makers to provide bilingual students with optimal teaching and learning opportunities (Yeganeh & Malekzadeh, 2015).…”

The Representation of Politeness in EFL Clasroom: An Investigation of Language Used by Lectures and Students in STKIP PGRI Bangkalan

“…Even when they meet, they greet the teacher at school like their friend. While Chairuddin and Aditya (2021) assume that in the interaction of social context, each speaker has ability and competence to shift a language by adding more attentions in language context where the language occurs. Thus, women and man have used different language in communicating with others (Wahyuningsih, 2018).…”