High School Students' Cultural Schemas of English in Magek, West Sumatera

Salsabila Fitri, Nofel Nofiadri, Renggi Vrika

Abstract


The intensity of global contact across cultures and nations in this digital age has increased the functionality of English language as the medium of intercultural communication. This study tries to reveal high school students’ cultural schemas of ‘English’ in a Minangkabau speech community of West Sumatra. A semi-structured interview was used to gather data from twenty participants. Each participant was interviewed for almost one hour using Minangkabau language. Thematic analysis was applied in the data analyzing process.  This study finds four cultural schemas of ‘English’ that indicate the conceptualization of English language is the result of formal institutional interactions of the society and the success of the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach at secondary education. However, the existing schemas also reveal unachievable learning outcomes based on national curriculum expectation for the aspects of  critical thinking and academic function of English language.


Keywords


Cultural conceptualization, Cultural schemas, Minangkabau culture, Teaching English for Foreign Language.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15548/rielt.v11i2.13581

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