EDUTAINMENT AS A NEW TREND IN TEACHING ENGLISH

Abstract

Teaching and learning are activities that engage people in an attempt to acquire and transfer the knowledge, skills, and positive values by utilizing variety of sources. Teaching and learning involve two parties, namely the student as a leamer and a teacher/ lecturer as educator or facilitator. Educators usually have clear strategies and techniques to ensure that what is taught to students based on target planned. However. teaching and learning processes do not run well all the times. There are many problems appeared such as problems in transferring the knowledge. leaming difficulties. feeling boredom, and others. Based on the writer's preliminary research, Students who study English at schools in Indonesia stated that English is very difficult to be learned, and the teaching method used by teachers made them confuse even getting bored in learning English. Therefore, there is one solution to overcome these cases which called edutainment. Edutainment is a way of teaching English that provides pleasurable, fun, comfortable and effective teaching. It gives chance to the teachers and students to combine the lesson with fun activities. Fufthermore there are several forms of edutainment that can be applied by the teachers in teaching English like: Active Learning, The accelerated learning, Quantum learning, and Quantum teaching. Thus. this paper aims to introduce edutainment as a new trend in teaching English with pleasure and fun ways in accomplishing the goals of English education.