A MODEL FOR REINFORCING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SCIENTIFIC APPRAOCH IN LANGUAGE LEARNING.

Teachers? skills in applying scientific approach are generallystill poor. For this reason, the application of scientific approach needs to be reinforced in order to ensure that the characteristics of the approach appear in learning. Findings of this study show that the reinforcements must be provided on five main learning experiences, namely (a) observing, (b) questioning, (c) experimenting, (d) associating, and (e) communicating. In particular, the reinforcements need to be focused onthese aspects: (a) meaningfullearning process, (b) teacher?s ability in increasing learners? reasoning skills, (c) teacher?s ability to improvise with different teaching methods, (d) a learning that is oriented towards measurable results, (f) teacher?s ability in giving drills and exercises systematically, and (h) teacher?s ability in documenting learner?s progress. In addition, teachers are required to make themselves very familiar with some learning models that are compatible with the scientific approach, including (a) inquirylearning, (b) discoverylearning, (c) project-based learning, and (d) problem-based learning.