This presentation is on teaching our very own English incorporating our own local pragmatic norms and values

1. Ideas on Making It Not Look Foolish
Paper presented at LIA Int’l Conference, April 28-30, 2010, Bali and the 19th MELTA Int’l
Conference, June 7-8, 2010, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

2. Li (1999: 1) citing McArthur (1992);
Li (1999: 2)
Our very own English?
◦ Aziz (2001): grammar, lexis, and discourse

3. Antoni and Radiana (2001), Antoni and Gunawan
(2005) and Antoni (2009) render examples that still
persist to occur t estifying to Aziz’s (2001) belief;
thus “our very own English”
Problems with accent, intonation, and the likes have
not yet been well-recorded; problems with localized
syllabic stress and pronunciation
Problems with collocation

4. Mistakes in grammar at the sentential level
must constantly be corrected
Mistakes at the discoursal level must also be
equally tackled. Antoni and Radiana (2001)
inspired by Alwasilah (1993: 78) proposes 3
steps
Mistakes in syllabic stress and intonation
should be handled using minimal pairs or
groups of the words put also in context when
trained to studsents

5. Mistakes in collocation should be handled by
comparing English examples of collocation
and their equivalents in Indonesian; students
are to note the differences