Teaching English to Javanese Students: Simple Transitive and Intransitive Sentences

Even though I come from an urban city, Jakarta, and cannot speak any local languages, the internet provides great assistance. Through reading several comparative analyses on local languages and English, I feel that I have gained sufficient background knowledge to teach students whose native tongue is not bahasa Indonesia despite living in this country their whole lives. I believe that these students should have an equal chance to build their English proficiency. So, I organized the following teaching resources intended to be for elementary Javanese students with a beginner level of English proficiency.

The lesson plan for this session is as follows.

The teaching material for this session is a short presentation containing the definition and examples of simple transitive and intransitive sentences. To access the PowerPoint file, click the following link https://bit.ly/TransitiveAndIntransitivePPT or download the pdf below.

Ukara Transitif lan Intransitif ing basa Inggris (Teaching Material).pdf

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This session offers two assessments, in-class and out-of-class. The former is a formative assessment that is done after the explanation from the teacher. To access the soft copy of the pictures to be printed, click the following link https://bit.ly/InClassAssessment. The latter is a summative assessment. In my lesson plan, it is given as homework, but it is also okay if this assessment is done during the classroom session. To access the worksheet, click the following link https://bit.ly/WorksheetHW. These files can also be downloaded below.

Pictures to be printed (In-class Assessment).pdf

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Worksheet.pdf

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The scoring rubric for the last two parts of the worksheet are as follows.

These teaching materials were made by referring to a study done by Fitriyani et al. in 2018 titled A Contrastive Analysis of Simple Sentences in English and Javanese Language. The Javanese seen on these teaching materials used are translated from Indonesian through translate.com.