BRINGING CONTENT SUBJECTS INTO WORK :

SOCIOLINGUISTICS SUBJECT IN STKIP ABDI

PENDIDIKAN PAYAKUMBUH

Fadilla Taslim
STKIP Abdi Pendidikan Payakumbuh
Laily Martin
Andalas Univeristy, Padang

Jakarta, 4 December 2012

 Introduction
Backgroung of the study 

content subject burden students

Associate
TLL
Lecturers

Listening
Writing
speaking
Lecturers  Teach  Reading
-Basic concept
- Lack of Application in Teaching Lang Learning (TLL)
Students  Unmotivated
The aim of the study 
Raise students’s awareness of
sociolinguistics contributions to
English Teaching Material Design

Research  focus  sociolinguistics

contributions in TLL
 Previous studies :
- Mizne (1997) and Tat (2012) 
almost similar  sociolinguistics
competence in the ESL Classroom 
Culture Awareness of using Language

Our research  bring the case of

Sociolinguistics occured
during the TLL for
designing the material
The design  Action Research
Feran (2000:1) and Waters-Adam (2006)

3 Cycles

1st Cycle 2nd Cycle 3rd Cycle

CYCLE PLAN ACTION OBSERVATION REFLECTION
Trigger students’ - Sociolinguistic Introduction to the - Concepts-only
knowledge on concepts concepts did not help the
sociolinguistics introduction accompanied by students
contributions to - related sample the examples - The students
I language teaching cases recalled students’ still relied on
provision backround the
knowledge about memorization
the language in
society
Making students English teaching Sample-based The students were
aware of the related discussions started able to speak
sociolinguistic- sociolinguistic to trigger students about their
related problems in cases discussions awareness on problems in
II English teaching sociolinguistic English learning
concepts for relating to English
language teaching assessment and
language variations

Making students be Sociolinguistic- Sociolinguistic The students are

able to consider based teaching considerations to able to speak
sociolinguistic material design language teaching about several
III aspects in material discussions design interested considerations
design the students about and
contributions of
sociolinguistics
 conclusion

the students were triggered to take

more consideration to sociolinguistics.
This is shown from the increase of
comprehension of sociolinguistic
phenomena and the students’
motivation of trying to input certain
sociolinguistic concepts in the design of
language teaching materials.
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