Hairudin Rahman

REPORT OF SCHOOL VISIT AT SMP LABOLATORIUM UNIVERSITAS NEGERI MALANG       Galuh Wijayanti, Hairudin Rahman, Hendra Herliadi,  Muhtar Raiadi, & Rizky Rahman Background As the individual who have social awareness, we all realize that foreign language is the media to communicate with many students over the world. The need of foreign language mastery has increased nowadays since many kinds of profession require students who have good English competence. In Indonesia, English is regarded as foreign language. Teaching English as Foreign Language (TEFL) is an activity in which teacher is teaching English to students with different first language. TEFL activity can occur in state school or private school, and the teachers may be native or non-native speakers of English. In all over the world, teaching English as foreign language is conducted to make students know English and can commu...

CULTURE  IN SECOND AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING Hairudin Rahman Graduate Student of Universitas Negeri Malang Background Foreign language learning is comprised of several components, including grammatical competence, communicative competence, language proficiency, as well as a change in attitudes towards one’s own or another culture. Cultural competence, i.e. the knowledge of the conventions, customs, beliefs, and systems of meaning of another country, is indisputably an integral part of foreign language learning, and many teachers have seen it as their goal to incorporate the teaching of culture into the foreign language curriculum. The power of language to reflect culture and influence thinking was proposed by an American linguist and anthropologist, Edward Sapir (1884-1939), and his students, Benjamin Whorf (1897-1981). The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis stated that the way we think and view the world is determined by our language (Otto, 2006). Through the study of othe...