Teaching English in Indonesia-A Generic View

Abstract

Education has been at a cross-road. This paper is a grounded research based on the relationship between the world of TEFL professional work and education. Within the umbrella of Indonesian Quality Framework (KKNI), the focal research problem is: How can we equip English Teacher with accountable Generic Competence in NNs setting Indonesia? This research is within the framework of grounded research on Designing English Learning and TEFL Text Standard following Indonesian Quality Framework perspective a research sponsored by Indonesian Directorate of Higher Education. Following this perspective, the research methodology first accomodates various transformative praxis model, designing a paradigm model, and doing action-research at TEFL classes at English Department to deal with the issue. Generic competence is a competence that works at cross-disciline levels. The methodology is first reviewing language and language teaching paradigms from Plato’s era to the present state of affairs, configured its yields in TEFL praxis level in a transformative perspective.At praxis, this research proposed a paradigm on some generic teaching skill at TEFL at classroom praxis in Indonesian context. The whole work is an advent for a two-years research. The finding is a model of TEFL generic competences for classroom teaching on a IndonesianQualityFrameworkbasis for teacher in teaching English at classroom.