Workshop on scaffolding Indonesian poetry for second language learners

1. Puis i dan lag u
S c affo lding c o mple x te xts
Laura Lo c ho re
WestOne Services

2. WestOne Services
Develop curriculum
resources for:
• K-12
• VET
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in CD-ROM, print
and DVD formats

3. Indonesian 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B
2A

4. Indonesian 3A – Aneka Wacana
• Puisi dan lagu – aduh!
2A

5. Aku tak mirip Beliau
Tulislah!
• What do you think the title means?
• Make a prediction what the poem is
about.

6. Aku tak mirip Beliau
Dengarkanlah!
• Tulislah kata pokok!
• Garisbawahilah kata yang diulangi!
• Sama teman, tebaklah 2 tema puisi ini!
• Apa tema puisi ini?

7. Aku tak mirip Beliau
Kebangsaan /
Nasionalisme
Kekeluargaan

8. Which is you?
A. Saya tidak mengerti puisi ini sama
sekali.
B. Saya mengerti beberapa kata dari
puisi ini, tetapi saya belum mengerti
maknanya.
C. Saya mengerti inti/pokok puisi ini,
walaupun saya tidak mengerti setiap
kata.
D. Pengertian saya tentang puisi ini
cukup bagus.

9. Why po e try ?
•Culturally significant
•Tells a story
•W of expressing em
ay otion
•Frequently related to a specific
time
•Relevant language
–Perasaan dan waktu.

10. Wiji Thukul
• lahir di Salatiga 24 Agustus 1963 sebagai
anak tukang becak.
• Keluarganya katolik, dan diapun masuk SD
katolik.
• dibesarkan di sebuah kampung miskin
• menyuarakan perlawanan terhadap Orde
Baru
• ‘Dihilangkan’ tahun 1998
• dianugerahi Yap Thiam Hien Award 2002.

11. Fitri Ng anthi Wani

12. Kenapa ya?
• Similies
• Make a statement

13. Wo rking with po e ms
• Start with the text in Indonesian
• Identify a language point IN the text
• Allow different interpretations

14. Wo rking with po e ms
• Frameworks to aid thinking
• Scaffolding (task and questions eg
find the X words; Bloom’s)
• Encourage
prediction/guessing/notemaking
• Develop productive tasks (eg
performance).

15. Collaborative learning
Poetry slam
Group performance (language warning!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOv47njeLH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlI28t8mQg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRRLMlrXE

16. Tugas
EITHER
Choose a task sheet and
poem, make notes all over
poem, complete tugas and
perform.
OR
Choose a poem, make up your
own tugas, present.

17. Choose a poem
Develop a task
• What language points are relevant?
• What receptive task can you give?
• How can you scaffold it?
• What strategies do learners need?
• What productive task?
• What is the intercultural
understanding?

18. Group work
• Choose different poems (or sections
of)
• Assign as group work
• Read, interpret, respond, perform.

19. • Asal mula diriku (h12)
• Kenangan (h70)
• Lelaki itu 2nd stanza (h71)
• Kira-kira (h41)
• Ya, ya, ya (h16)

20. What teachers make

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• References
• http://ppium.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/wiji-thukul/
• http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/672218.Wiji_Thukul