Your Language My Culture (YLMC): Developing a Local-Culture ELT Matrix for Schools in Terengganu, Malaysia

Yahya, Zawiah; Ibrahim, Noraini; Ramli, Rashila; Yusof, Noraini Md; Othman, Zarina

doi:10.21315/km2017.35.2.3

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“…Malaysia has a program called Your Language My Culture (YLMC) that strives to enhance communicative ability in ELT through the integration of local culture in the form of a supplementary reading module (Nambiar et al, 2018). The pedagogical argument behind the YLMC program is that the use of local culture material promotes both English skills and cultural understanding; this aims to improve both spoken and written English communication (Yahya et al, 2017). This program demonstrates that the incorporation of local culture in ELT has been carried out in Malaysia.…”

Section: Geographical Distribution Of Local Integration In Elt In Sou...mentioning

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A Systematic Review on the Integration of Local Culture into English Language Teaching in Southeast Asia: Current Practices and Impacts on Learners’ Attitude and Engagement

2024

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As a response to the status of English as an international language and lingua franca, the integration of local culture now becomes a new trend of teaching English, particularly in outer-circle countries. This review study is intended to give a better understanding of current practices of local culture integration in ELT and its impacts on learners' attitudes and engagement in Southeast Asia. The thematic approach was used to interpret the outcomes of the 25 selected articles. The results are reported in three synthesis statements, defining (1) the geographical spread of local cultural integration in the ELT in Southeast Asia, (2) the impact on learning attitudes and engagement, and (3) the practices of local cultural integration. By interpreting the results of the review, suggestions are made for teachers and researchers to pursue more diverse practices in integrating local culture since it offers a constructive attitude, high motivation, and good engagement in learning English.

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Section: Geographical Distribution Of Local Integration In Elt In Sou...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Review on the Integration of Local Culture into English Language Teaching in Southeast Asia: Current Practices and Impacts on Learners’ Attitude and Engagement

2024

Pegegog

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“…It provides a platform to assemble anecdotes, life experiences, and traditional knowledge from family or community members, which cannot be found in global commercial coursebooks (Abdul Aziz et al, 2019). The use of local cultural content in ELT materials provides learners with content familiar to their reading schemata and can enhance English proficiency and cultural awareness (Yahya et al, 2017). Moreover, as Harmer (2012) contended, the learners become involved in content that is based on themselves and own real lives and in such a way they learn the English language Furthermore, since 21st century students are exposed to multimodal texts, the local content will be converted into a graphic novel format.…”

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Using Graphic Oral History Texts to Operationalize the TEIL Paradigm and Multimodality in the Malaysian English Language Classroom

Ibrahim

Aziz²,

Said³

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IJLTER

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The adoption of commercial language-teaching materials produced in the United Kingdom, or the United States, is a common practice in English language teaching (ELT) worldwide. This is due to the wide perception of British and American English as the standard, favorable models of the English language. This practice, however, does not support the increasing and urgent shift to the teaching English as an international language (TEIL) paradigm, and it further perpetuates the hegemony of these Western countries over the market of ELT materials. In this paper, we seek to not only problematize the adoption of global commercial materials but also propose a conceptual model for composing effective local ELT materials for the Malaysian English language classroom. In doing so, we refer to the relevant literature and previous research. The proposed conceptual model embraces the TEIL paradigm as well as multimodality and executes them by utilizing oral history and the graphic novel as two powerful pedagogical tools. By combining these two pedagogies, the model accentuates the acknowledged pedagogical value of both oral history and the graphic novel and results in local-context and culture-based texts that are also consistent with the current nature of texts being visual and multimodal. Furthermore, the paper showcases some samples of graphic oral history texts composed by Malaysian English language teachers and student teachers in two projects.

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“…As learners are not familiar with the cultures of native speakers, they may feel uncomfortable with learning the EL if they are pressurised to learn the target culture. When ELT materials incorporate local cultures, learners can easily make connections between the EL and their everyday experiences which ultimately facilitate language learning (Yahya, Ibrahim, Ramli, Md Yusof, & Othman, 2017). Besides, learners can base their EL learning on their experiences of L1 learning and use.…”

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Emerging Trends in Global ELT: Implications for ELT in Bangladesh

Rouf¹

2022

BELTA J.

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This paper analyses the key emerging trends in global English language teaching (ELT) and discusses their implications for ELT in Bangladesh. ELT has become a worldwide profession, and its focuses are shifting over time. The emerging trends include the use of postmethod orientations, greater role of digital technologies, critical pedagogy, development of learners' intercultural communicative competences, teachers' continuing professional development, localisation of ELT, development of learners' autonomy and their sense of social responsibility and well-being, and increased use of formative assessments. ELT in Bangladesh cannot ignore all these emerging trends in global ELT. This paper, consequently, discusses the implications of these emerging trends for ELT in Bangladesh. It strongly argues that all the ELT stakeholders in Bangladesh must play a planned and active role in reflecting these trends in their practices.

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Your Language My Culture (YLMC): Developing a Local-Culture ELT Matrix for Schools in Terengganu, Malaysia

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Cited by 6 publications

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A Systematic Review on the Integration of Local Culture into English Language Teaching in Southeast Asia: Current Practices and Impacts on Learners’ Attitude and Engagement

A Systematic Review on the Integration of Local Culture into English Language Teaching in Southeast Asia: Current Practices and Impacts on Learners’ Attitude and Engagement

Using Graphic Oral History Texts to Operationalize the TEIL Paradigm and Multimodality in the Malaysian English Language Classroom

Emerging Trends in Global ELT: Implications for ELT in Bangladesh

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