Teaching Strategies for Korean Language Classes with Highly Mixed Ability Students

Didi Sukyadi, Didin Samsudin, Risa Triarisanti, Velayeti Nurfitriana Ansas

2017

Abstract

Recruitment system and selection of the first batch of 2015 Korean Education Study Program’s students were only through Saringan Masuk (SM UPI); therefore, every student has different teaching ability, age, motivation, and characteristic. In brief in each class, there are medium achiever students, high achiever students, and low achiever students. Based on the background, the research questions of the present study are how the students’ variety and background in the first batch of 2015 Korean Education Study Program are and also how the lecturers’ strategies to deal with the students’ highly mixed abilities are. The aim of the present study is to investigate the varied condition of the first batch of 2015 Korean students’ ability and to learn appropriate teaching strategies to serve the students with mixed ability. The present study use a qualitative approach with case study method in the Korean Education Study Program. The findings of the present study suggest that the use of various teaching strategies is an appropriate effort taken by the lecturers in dealing with the mixed ability students in order to achieve competitive teaching outcome which is in line with the intended teaching target. The findings also suggest that appropriate efforts to improve the students’ ability and to cope with the issues occurred in class with mixed ability are by giving extra class to the low achiever students and by providing fun extracurricular activities outside the formal class hours, for example, the extracurricular of Korean song choir.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sukyadi D., Samsudin D., Triarisanti R. and Ansas V. (2017). Teaching Strategies for Korean Language Classes with Highly Mixed Ability Students.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 533-537. DOI: 10.5220/0007170405330537

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Didi Sukyadi and Didin Samsudin and Risa Triarisanti and Velayeti Nurfitriana Ansas},
title={Teaching Strategies for Korean Language Classes with Highly Mixed Ability Students},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={533-537},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007170405330537},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Teaching Strategies for Korean Language Classes with Highly Mixed Ability Students
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Sukyadi D.
AU - Samsudin D.
AU - Triarisanti R.
AU - Ansas V.
PY - 2017
SP - 533
EP - 537
DO - 10.5220/0007170405330537