Achieving Good Grade and Good Heart: A Strategy of Developing Soft Skills in English Language Teaching English Language Teaching

Abstract

Soft skills have a significant role in the development of the students’ overall personality, thereby potentially enhance their career prospect. In the context of foreign language teaching, soft skills can be exposed integrally through the process of teaching and learning English. This is based on the paradigm that English language teaching ideally does not merely focus on how to achieve a good grade in the language skills, but also guide them to internalize the virtues for their soft skills development (good heart)....