ELTIS - English Language Training for Islamic Schools
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ELTIS aims to develop the English
language expertise and teaching capabilities of 750 Madrasah Tsanawiyah (Islamic
Junior secondary school) teachers from East Java, Madura and NTB,
as well as strengthen the capacity of partner tertiary institutions to design, manage and deliver in-service
English language and teacher training, and strengthen district support networks.
ELTIS is working with two Islamic universities (IAIN Sunan
Ampel Surabaya and IAIN Mataram). These partner Islamic tertiary education institutions will in turn deliver
English Language Upgrading (ELU) and Communicative English
Language Teacher Training (CELTT) courses
to Madrasah Tsanawiyah teachers, supported by appropriate resources.
To learn more about this fantastic project from AusAID,
visit: www.lapis-eltis.org
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ELTIS Master Trainers in Bali
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Master Trainer Pak Muhsinin - ELTIS in NTB (Mataram, Lombok)
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Pak Muhsinin is based at IAIN Mataram. Pak Muhsinin's interest in English berawal to his primary
school days after his father bought him an English book to read. It was later in high school in Praya that
he quickly realized that much of his otodidak knowledge was not quite right. His teachers were
good and they helped him a lot with his English. Muhsinin finished high school in 1986 and continued his English
studies at university in Mataram in the English department. In 1991 he became an English teacher. He loved
working with his students. He told KGI that he always tried to give his students new activities and always
tried to make the classroom interesting for them, and for himself. After pelatihan persiapan keberangkatan at
IALF Bali (6 months) Muhsinin attended the University of Queensland through his scholarship from the Australian
government. Sekembalinya to Lombok he used his new-found knowledge and experiences gained in
Australia to work with CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) and teaching English in his Mataram school.
Muhsinin is saat the Secretary of the Center for Language and Culture at IAIN Mataram. He is also the provincial
co-ordinator for the LAPIS-ELTIS project. He works three days a week managing the training activities of the
project.
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Muhsinin sepenuhnya bergabung ELTIS in early 2008 after completing his 6 month ICELT (In-service
Certificate in English Language Teaching), accredited by Cambridge University, and emerging as a qualified Master
Trainer. There are currently 9 other ELTIS Master Trainers based in Lombok working with 327 local English teacher
participants from Islamic Junior High Schools. Not only do teachers receive training about how to teach, but
their own English language levels are improved too. He knows the project is telah berhasil by the
enthusiastic level of teacher attendance, their performance in the classroom when observed, and their umpan
balik positif on the course. In fact, so happy are these teachers with the training they are receiving
that other teachers in the area are hampir setiap hari asking if they too can join the program.
Muhsinin and LAPIS-ELTIS enjoy a hubungan erat with Kang Guru. They secara teratur menggunakan KGI
materials in their training sessions and in their classrooms. Good luck to everyone.
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Can you match these words and phrases with the Indonesian words in the text about LAPIS-ELTIS and KGI?
Send your answers to KGI by email by October 31st and you could win
a fabulous KGI 20th Anniversary t-shirt.
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