International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature (ijsell) Volume 2, Issue 8, August 2014, pp 116-130

Noer Doddy Irmawati, Dr. M.Hum
 
 
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a compulsory subject in Indonesia, which serves as a means of self-development of the students in 
all aspects of learning, namely: 1) Personality; 2) Science Technology and Arts; 3) Global Insight; 
and 4) Capability of International Communication. Thus they can grow and develop into citizens, 
who are intelligent, skilled and Indonesian personality and ready to take part in international 
development.
The aim of English teaching is a skilled student in reading, listening, speaking, and writing. 
Elements of language such as grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling are taught to 
support the development of all four language skills, not for the benefit of the elements of the 
language itself (Department of Education, 2005: 2). Furthermore, it is stated that learning English 
in Indonesia has a purpose, namely: 1) Communication in English, for a variety of purposes and 
cultural context. Students are expected to develop communication skills that they can familiarize, 
interpret and express thoughts, feelings, and experiences through a variety of texts written and 
spoken English, to expand their interpersonal relationship to the international level and to gain 
access to the world of knowledge, ideas, and values in English; 2) understanding of the English 
language as a system. Students do a reflection on the usefulness, the nature of the English 
language, the language of work systems, and finally recognize the power of language to humans 
as individuals and members of the community; 3) Students‟ Cultural Understanding can develop 
an understanding of the interrelations between language and culture, extending their capability to 
cross cultures, engage in diversity; 4) General knowledge, is intended for students to expand their 
knowledge about the ideas related to interest, world problems, and concepts derived from a series 
of learning regions.
The function of teaching English in Indonesia is as a means of self-development of the students in 
all aspects of learning, they are: personality, science, technology and arts, global insight and 
capabilities of international communications (SNP, 2005: 7). The purpose of learning English in 
Indonesia is to develop science, technology and arts, and fostering relationships with other 
nations. This means that the result of the learning process is a change in behavior as the case of 
language learning, which the failure is done by students to communicate using the language. To 
achieve the goals, a good English teacher with the following characteristics is required. Teacher 
should have the competence to lead the class, love the English language, critical thinking, 
persistent in improving themselves, can put themselves, ready to work hard, able to adapt to the 
culture, be professional, and have feelings love to work (Brown, 2001: 429). 
E.
The Implication of Structuralism Linguistics to Language Teaching 
Linguistics‟ findings which can be applied in language teaching is linguistics‟ finding of 
structuralism model, because this model never single (Edi Subroto, 2005). This model 
includes the use of descriptive linguistics as a paradigm observability that stay as born traits 
characteristic. Descriptive means noting what is actually used in the community.
Furthermore, he said that in order to understand this we need to know the model of the structure 
and system in advance. What is meant by structure here is how the meaningful units in a 
language relates each other to follow the rules of the language to form a single construction. The 
famous construction is morphological construction and syntactical construction that the minimum 
element is word. The elements must be meaningful and there is a system in its unity. In other 
words that the construction of each meaningful element there is an existing system adopted.The 
minimal meaningful element is a morpheme, it could also a word.
Grammar in structuralism is morphology and syntax. For example from the following example: I 
will go to Yogya (the terms of the syntax) => to Yogya => properties closer relationships than on 
=> go to. Talking about the system, is more on the functional dimension. System corresponds to a 
unit in an arrangement can replace the units to have the same class, such as (the following 
example in Indonesian language):
Akan = mau / = tidak 
= belum / = hendak 
= baru / = dapat
The closeness of the relationship is one of important rules. 

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