Yulia Loekito
Green Meadow Learning Community
About
Yulia Loekito is a certified TESOL facilitator from Yogyakarta-Indonesia and the founder of Green Meadow Independent Learning Community which emphasizes language, cultural, and environmental learning as its core activities. Home-based library is also organized here to support reading groups in which extensive reading and extensive listening are constantly applied. At the same time, she also manages a publishing house which mainly publish children story books written in vernacular language and local scripts. .Sessions
Younger learners Stories with Local Content To Instill Cultural Awareness in Young Language Learners more
Sat, Aug 6, 12:30-13:15 Asia/Tokyo
When young learners are finally able to read their own books in the target language learned, it definitely is not merely an instant process of alphabet recognition or spelling. Long before the day arrives, they should have been enduring a process which should be a complete discovery of meaning and cultural values in which they are brought upon. It is linear to Ki Hajar Dewantara—Indonesian’s Father of Education—strong belief that exposure to dolanan (game), tembang (song/chant), drama or play, dongeng (stories) with local and culturally rich content are ideal tools to facilitate young learners. This practice-based findings reveal cultural value awareness and immersion as learners are exposed to poster stories, puppet show stories, children pictorial books, and articles with local content. Several methods applied and discussed are: reading aloud, story telling, comparing and analyzing cultural values within stories and learners’ local culture, and also opinion giving.
Younger learners Young Learners more
Sat, Aug 6, 21:00-23:00 Asia/Tokyo
Join the breakout room for a discussion on Young Learners.
