Linguistics in English Language Education Curriculum: Students' Reflection

Linguistics has become content subjects for English language education students and has been adopted in curriculum of English language education study programs. Big questions simply occurred is why they should learn applied English linguistics. Linguistics, or applied linguistic in this context, is often used to refer to “the use of linguistic research in language teaching only, but results of linguistics research used in many other areas, especially English language teaching” (Khan, 2011). This paper investigates students’ perception towards linguistics knowledge after they accomplish Introduction to Linguistics class. It reports the students’ experiences in learning applied English linguistics and the advantages they take from learning linguistics in conjunction with their role as English teachers to be. A students’ perception model is proposed to explain the objectives after they take Introduction to Linguistics class. This paper concludes that learning linguistics in Introduction to Linguistics, as the first class of linguistics, typically gives them the experiences of understanding English, as their major, better. In addition, this reflection reinforces the existence of English linguistics in the curriculum of English language education study programs. The results of this paper contribute better designs of linguistics classes for EFL teachers to be in Musi Charitas Catholic University Palembang