IMPLEMENTING ICT MEDIA IN DEVELOPING CHARACTER-COMPETENCE CONTENT OF ENGLISH MATERIALS

Abstract

Refering to the national education philosophy and objective that is to develop students' competence and characiers as good Indonesians, teaching English is intended to develop students'character-personality. as well as to improve their English proficiency (linguistic skills). This is important for Indonesia to face the golden age in 2045 indicated by having a golden generation of competitive and high quality human resources. However. several researches reported that students' English proficiency was not so satisfactory watch could skip lndonesia position in the global achievement. It is not fair to blame students' lack of English ability' to become a factor. The problem may be due to teaching-learning process which might fail to stimulate their motivation and interests in learning. In this relation, therefbre, there are 2 important issues to discuss; first. how teaching-leaming process is managed interestingly and interactively for students to improve their English proficiency by using ICT media. anC. second. hou'the ICT media organizes character-competence content of English teaching-leaming materials. This paper will particularly. discuss the implementation of ICT mediain English teaching containing such character-competence content of English materials. ICT media are a new trend in English language teaching-learning today. Using ICT media are assumed to be an alternative solution to problem of students' learning interests and motivation in the teaching-learning process leading them to achieve English proficiency. although the implementation maystill become problematic for teachers. Applying the ICT media in the teaching is expected tocontribute to the development olstudents' English proticiencl and their character-personality"