Teaching 21st Century Skills: Investigating the Strategies Implemented in EFL Classrooms
Daisy Rizqi Putri
Language Training Center, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
Jalan Brawijaya, Tamantirto, Kasihan, Bantul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 55183
Abstract
Instilling the 21st century skills (communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity) in EFL classrooms as an attempt to equip the students to compete in the global era can be demanding. As a foreign language, teaching English for Indonesian students itself may carry its own issues requiring teachers to deal with. Moreover, teachers have greater challenges to select appropriate teaching strategies incorporating the required language and the 4 Cs skills. This study aims to investigate teaching strategies implemented in Indonesian EFL classroom setting to facilitate the aforementioned skills. This study is descriptive qualitative. There will be 6 teachers of a language training center of a private university in Yogyakarta selected as the participants. Interviews will be conducted to gather the data needed. It is expected that the findings of this study can serve as a reference in applying strategies in teaching English as a foreign language to facilitate the 4 Cs skills necessary for the EFL Indonesian learners to compete in the global market era.
Keywords: 21st century skills, teaching strategies
Topic: International Conference of English Language Teaching, Literature & Linguistics