Aspects Micro Teaching Students Consider in Designing EIL Materials

Abstract

This study discussed aspects that Micro Teaching students consider in designing EIL (English as an International Language) materials. This study was aimed to answer the research question, “What are the aspects that students in Micro Teaching class consider in designing EIL materials?” Seven participants from Micro Teaching class were selected to be the participants of this study. The data were obtained from seven participants’ action research journals, lesson plans and interview. The result of the study revealed that familiarity issues and the place of western culture are the things which were mainly considered by students in Micro Teaching class. This result supported several finding found by McKay (2002, 2003, 2012) and Matsuda (2012). EIL approach is beneficial in teaching EFL (Friedrich & Matsuda, 2010 in Matsuda, 2012) and quality of input (material) is very critical (Matsuda, 2012). Pedagogical implication suggested by this study is that teachers should be more aware with EIL and provide more varied and suitable EIL material to achieve a qualified application of EIL approach in teaching and learning process.