This document discusses General English pedagogy and strategies to overcome its limitations. It notes that General English focuses equally on all four language skills but lacks sufficient interaction, communication skills development, and engagement for learners. To address this, it recommends using communicative language teaching methods with activities like role plays and group work to make learning more interactive and enjoyable. It also suggests incorporating icebreaker activities to develop soft skills and using various teaching media like videos and pictures to keep students engaged.

1. Kurnia Saputri
Bayu
Siti Aufadiyah Nuraini
General English
Teaching Pedagogy

2. “Learning English in general or learning
without particular purposes in mind.”
General English

3. GE ESP
Learners
Specially designed for high
school students.
Specially designed for professional
purposes
Aims
To improve overall English
competence.
To meet the needs of particular
learners
Concern
Designing courses targeting
vocabulary, spelling, grammar,
and so forth.
Designing courses for different
types of learners in accordance
with their disciplines or needs.
Language Skill
All four language skills are
stressed equally.
The course focuses on the
language skill(s) most needed by
the learners.
G E & ESP

4. GTM
(Grammar Translation Method)
PPP
(Presentation, Practice, Production)
Popular Teaching Techniques in General English
Teacher focus on teaching grammar Teacher present the rule of the
grammar and then subject.

5. Drilling Silent Way
Popular Teaching Techniques in General English
Drilling means ask you to repeat what the
teacher says.
The teacher required to be silent, and the
teaching media will help the teacher to
explain to the students a particular
grammar feature.

6. “By using a very old method what we call as a grammar translation method,
PPP, Drilling, and silent way, the result of communication of your speaking skill
is not that good or you are considered as a low proficient in communication.
However, General English is still needed to some degree, especially for reading
and for writing but not for communication.”
Expert:
Prof. Dwi Poedji A., Phd.

7. Critical Review: General English
Limited interaction
7
01
Communication/speaking and
listening skills are not sufficiently
developed
Students may be easily get bored
Not suitable for young learners
02
03
Students may become passive
04
05

8. Use communicative
methods
Applying Ice-
Breaker activities
in learning
Using or creating
multiple media
The Strategies to Overcome

9. CLT is an approach to teaching foreign
languages that emphasizes interaction as
both the means and ultimate goal of learning
a language ( Newmark, P. 1981)
The activities used in CLT : role play,
Group work, pair work and games makes
learning enjoyable.
Communicative Methods

10. Classroom ice-breaker activities help to develop various soft
skills such as interpersonal skill, communication skill that
include written, verbal and non-verbal and team building
skills (Forbes-green 2007).
Types of Ice Breakers (Litchert, S. 2022) :
1. Questions and short answers
2. Guessing game
3. Videos
4. Active game
Applying Ice-Breaker
activities in learning

11. According to Kasim (2011), media was the part of
equipments that used by the teacher to help the
students.
Kinds of teaching media :
a. visual media
picture, realia, miniature.
b. audio media
radio, cassette, tape recorder
c. audio visual media
TV, Film, youtube video
Using or creating
various media in
teaching

12. REFERENCES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7zYvAsO jdQ&t=333s
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http://swiftkickhq.com/icebreakers-different-types/
Poedjiastutie, D. (2021). General English Pedagogy (Part 1). (2021,
January 2). [Video]. YouTube.
Forbes-greene, S. (1982). The Encyclopedia of Icebreakers: Structured
activities That Warm-up, Motivate, Challenge, Acquaint and
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