Multicultural Approach and Information Communication Technology In Arabic Language Teaching: Research on Indonesian Pesantren

摘要

Multicultural Education Is One The Most Popular Term Used To Describe Education For Pluralism. On the other hand, one of the best platform to bring excellences in education is information and communication technology (ICT). Through applying ICT in the language learning would enhance students' capacity and accelerate language pedagogy. This research tries to explain various practices and processes in the pesantren that constructed to reduce prejudice and discrimination with ICT assistance. In addition, it tries to explain the curriculum is organized around concepts basic to each ethnic from several different group. The pesantrens are located in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The research design is qualitative approach. Data collected from conducting interview and observational field data. Furthermore, data elaborated on grounded theories analysis. The study is ongoing research to pursue PhD in education at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. This study shows that stakeholders in pesantren work with content integration and various practices deal with the extent to which teachers use examples and content from a variety of culture to illustrate key concepts, principles and theories in their subject area or discipline. Then, teachers conceptualize multicultural education as content related to various ethnic and cultural group. Furthermore, the processes on learning through ICT point out that it help students a mean to learn language. Finally, ICT extends learning processes and knowledge of the subject and the same time improves their proficiency in the language.