Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
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LITERACY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
No full textLiteracy has become a sitefor playing out the unjust social arrangements of hierarchy and inequity in our educational institutions, where minorities and marginalized 'others' predictably fail (Gilmore, 2003: 10). It isfor this reason that this paper examines teacher attitudes to obstacles to the establishment of literacy partnerships with parents of children of poverty. The intersection of such altitude with issues of equity of access to and participation in educational service has become the main focus. Teacher altitude is explored along eight dimensions grounded in the psychological literature. In terms of research, this paper discusses also the forces that contribute to failed or failing partnership efforts
ROLE OF MEMORY IN SHAPING CHARACTERS IDENTITY IN MAHESH DATTANIS FINAL SOLUTIONS
Get PDFWhile writing of contemporary issues Mahesh Dattani constructs a sense of a shared urban cultural identity, which is upper-middle class, professional, English speaking and a cityfied identity. Memory plays a very important part in the plays. Public memory is time and again juxtaposed with personal memory, and it becomes a means to explain and justify the political acts committed for personal interests. This paper looks at how memory, personal as well public, shapes the identities (social, personal and religious) of characters in Mahesh Dattanis Final Solutions. Incidents are important, but only to explain why and how the people populate his plays, acting in ways that they do. The psychological action is of greater relevance than any physical action that takes place in the play. He reveals his characters by placing them in situations where they are forced to analyze themselves in the light of what happened in their lives in the past
DESIGNING A SYLLABUS FORA COURSE OF ENGLISH FOR SECRETARY BASED ON INTERVIEWS WITH PROFESSIONAL SECRETARIES: A CASE STUDY
No full textThe job of a secretary is probably one of the most popular vacancies advertised in Indonesian mass-media.
Many profit and non-profit organizations seekfor professional
secretaries because of the central role the profession holds. A
secretary is an assistant to her employer, and oftentimes she
becomes not only lithe hands" but also lithe eyes" of her employer, indicating the wide range of work a secretary carries out. Despite of the heavy workload of the profession. there are still many female undergraduates who do not hesitant to begin or make a career as a secretary. Perhaps that is because basically the job requires administrative skills, which can be simply acquired through a lot of practices. Responding to the phenomenon, universities that run English Department have offered an English for Secretary (hereinafter referred to as EFS) course. Unfortunately, to date there have not been many books on EFS available in Indonesia. As a result, EFS teachershave to create the syllabus and prepare the materials themselves or use the old version of any EFS book available.Factually, the EFS syllabus should be created based on an actual and careful needs analysis so that the students taking the course would enjoy maximum benefit. This article focuses on designing a syllabus based on interviews with professional secretaries. Hence this article will discuss the importance of needs analysis, the structured interviews, the result of the interviews, and the proposed syllabus. There were 20 professional secretaries intervieweed about the secretarial job description, skills, and behaviour and attitudes. The result is hitherto a secretary stillgoes to the folloWing routine: handling callers, corresponding, filling, organizing meeting, and scheduling, which are relevant to the essential skills such as communication, computer and language skills; and pertinent to the behavior and attitudes a secretary should have: reliability, fast working, honesty, and autonomous learning. Thus, the planned EFS syllabus will accommodate what the interviewees have noted
PSYCHOANAL YTIC LITERARY CRITICISM OF AMERICAN ROMANTICISM LITERATURE AS REFLECTED IN NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
No full textOne of the most prominent themes in the Narrative involves the association of literacy with freedom. Within the context of Afro-American literature, slave narratives have attracted a great deal attention in recent criticism due to the fact that they represent the origins of the desire to search for an appointment and represent vehicle to portray the reality of Black identity. In this paper, it merely focuses on the psychological aspects of Frederick Douglass to escape from slavery influenced by the romantic era. In this work, instead of telling his life in a set of events, Frederick Douglass wrote in aform of an autobiography in which he could put forward his feelings-regret, fear, sadness, hope and enthusiasm, love, and despair personally. It shows how instead of sinking him to a weak and helpless condition, Douglass's feelings make him strong and firm to determine his path to gain freedom. That is the characteristic of romantic feelings
FAMILIARITY OF WORDS IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE CORRECT PRONUNCIATION: HELPFUL OR NOT?
No full textLanguage is the major instrument of human beings to communicate with one another. This means that the primary role of language is as an instrument in information exchange among people. Because language is primarily spoken, a speaker should pay attention to his or her pronunciation in order to avoid misunderstanding. When conducting a research on the problem of incorrect pronunciation of some specific English consonants in the Faculty of Letters Soegijapranata Catholic University Semarang, the researcher found a unique case in relation with familiarity of the pronunciation among the respondents. In his research, the researcher used a pronunciation test consisting of words containing the problematic consonants and the respondents were some of the fist year students of the Faculty of letters Soegijapranata Catholic University. The words were taken from the most familiar English to the less familiar English words to the respondents. The results are quite surprising because the familiar words are not always pronounced correctly and the less familiar words are not always pronounced incorrectly. What makes this case happen? What are the factors influencing the respondents performance leading to correct or incorrect pronunciation in relation in relation with their degree of familiarity to the words given? This article will discuss the problems and find out the factors influencing the respondents pronunciation
DO INTERNATIONAL NESB STUDENTS NEED AN ACADEMIC LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM?
Get PDFThis study examined the academic language skills of international students from non-English speaking background (NESB) at the University of Melbourne. It aimed to determine whether or not they need an academic language development program. The participants were 158 international NESB students of distinct categories. The students' academic language were measured using the Diagnostic English Language Assessment (DELA) test administered before the commencement of their academic study. Scores of the test were compared across categories and correlated across academic language skills. The results from this study suggested that. in general. international NESB students need a language development program to improve their academic writing skill. In addition. it was suggested that the development of the academic writing skill of international N ESB students be accomplished through a program directly related to academic language writing
DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE THROUGH LITERATURE
No full textIn the area of language teaching, it is widely known that there is a de-facto segregation between literature and culture. Both literature and culture are taught separately. Rarely do the two meet in one classroom regardless the strong ties between them. It is without doubt that literature is the media where elements of culture blend and interact. Literature is the media in which people reflect and challenge either their own culture or others. Unfortunately, literature rarely has a role as far as culture teaching and learning are concerned. This brings to the central thrust of this paper. In this paper, I would argue that literature is the best way to facilitate culture learning. It suggests how literary texts, if chosen selectively, would pave the way to cultural awareness and reflection. In addition, not only will students learn about culture but they will also experience personal enjoyment and emotional gain throughout the process. It will end with samples of activities where literature is used
A Book Review LITERARY WORKS IN ENGLISH LEARNING AS SHOWN IN DISCOVERING FICTION
Get PDFDiscovering Fiction is a two-level anthology of American short
stories by classic and contemporary American authors, released on May 28, 2005. The authors, Judith Kay and Rosemary Gelshenen, have definitely worked hard in collecting the short stories and organized them into five thematic sections with two up to four units and a section review
ARCHITECTURE AS A CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE CONTINUATION OF TRADITION WITHIN MODERNIZATION
Get PDFThe ancient and indigenous cultures that exist in the various regions of Indonesia are regarded as part of the national culture. In developing culture, Indonesia should aim at advancing civilization, culture and unity without rejecting new elements from foreign cultures that may improve or enrich the national culture and the same time raise human and Indonesian values. Architecture plays an important past in the Indonesian cultural identity. It is vital that it should be included in any plans for cultural development
A SURVEY ON CHINESE COLLEGE STUDENTS ATTITUDES TOWARDS SPOKEN ENGLISH PROFICIENCY
No full textBased on the results of fieldwork research, this article attempts to explore the relation between college students standard of spoken English and their oral English level in Chinese context. It has been found that most of the students have set unrealistic goals toward the proficiency of spoken English, which in turn hampers their initiative to participate in oral activities in and out of classroom setting. There are many possible explanations of this phenomenon, namely, the mistakenly assumed status of English, the different expectations of the English utterances in terms of linguistic accuracy on the part of speakers and listeners, and the unique Chinese conservative characters. Suggestions on countermeasures especially those that might be conducted in class are presented at the end of the article