The Foreign Language Learning in the Holistic Education Perspective

Abstract

Instruction is the essential procedure done which teaching happens. This study is aimed to uncover foreign languages learning that is English at the An-Nur Tangkit Islamic Boarding School using a pragmatic approach, which examines the process of foreign language learning using a perspective of holistic education theory. This study applied a qualitative approach, and data were collected by using observational techniques, interviews, and documentation. Data were then analyzed by using two patterns of analysis. The results showed that the process of learning a foreign language in An-Nur Tangkit boarding school in general was in accordance with the principles of holistic education. This finding is interesting considering that Islamic boarding school education institutions does not only teach religious knowledge but also is oriented to the formal curriculum regarding the current development. It is considered to have been able to develop the quality of the learning process in accordance with holistic education. This study also found that the process of foreign language learning at An-Nur Tangkit Islamic Boarding School is able to carry out creative innovations. The students do not only study foreign language as formal learning in the classroom but also outside the classroom. This pattern of foreign language learning is also successfully implemented regardless the fact that this boarding school does not have a technology-based language laboratory.