INTEGRATING CHARACTER BUILDING IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING AT SCHOOLS: WHY AND HOW?

Abstract

Abstract
In line with the goal of national education, that is, to develop educated people with life skill and good
character building, character education values should be engaged in designing and composing the
material used in learning activities in the classroom. The issue of character education is still
questionable. Those questions are mostly about its effectiveness in the classroom—partly due to the
lack of practical evidence connecting character education to definite developments in
academics, social interactions, and emotional and cognitive improvement. This paper is trying to
discuss the reinforcement of integrating character education particularly in foreign language teaching.
Keywords:character education, language teaching, national education