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The Differences between Islamic Education and Language Learning to Building Children's Characteristic
For years, the people who concerned with education still talks about the character building. Furthermore, every element of people is made complicated. Survey results showed that 63% of the 33 provinces teens free sex. Data from the control center of social disruption in Jakarta also show that students involved in the brawl from elementary, junior high school around 0.08%, or about 1,318 students from a total of 1,647,835 students in Jakarta. Even, 26 students died cause of the brawl. John Wooden in his book Wooden on Leadership said, “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” It’s mean that to be a good person must have a good behaviour. The character will be important things which have to apply in human life.
Character building to children can be reached in two ways, Islamic education and language learning. According to Kammarudin SA (2012: n.d) in his Journal of Education and Learning, “character education is identical to the character, so the character of the values of universal human behaviour that covers all human activities, both in order to relate with God, with himself, with others, as well as with the environment, which manifests itself in the mind, attitudes, feelings, words, and actions based on religious norms, laws, manners, culture, and customs,” He also said, “Character building of students in each educational environment means the efforts made by the institution in the context of the formation of the character of students. The term is synonymous with coaching is the formation or development. Associated with educational institutions, now more encouraged the formation of the school culture. One of the chosen school cultures is a culture of noble character. From this came the term the formation of moral values in the school culture.” In short, character building is built from many ways. It just not about children self but it is also about the things around of them. Environments, cultures, and the basic moral order is related each other.
Islamic education is concern about relations between human being and God. Communication a human being and God are built by Islamic laws. The Islamic laws According to Dr. Ahmad Marimba, “Islamic education is physical and spiritual guidance based on religious laws (islamic) to build the characteristic of moslem itself. The characteristic must be appropriate to religious laws (Islamic).” ( Uhbiyati: 12). Moreover, Ahmad Tafsir ( 2012: 6) said that character was equality with moral. Thus, character building is about moral education. In Islamic education can be similarity with politeness and decency. In addition, Warson ( 1997: 364) in his dictionary is connection the word of “moral” and “ethic” in English culture which come from Greek, “mores” and “ethicos”. It means that Islamic education needed to build the children’s characteristic.
In addition, Islamic education still dominant in Indonesian culture that most of the inhabitant is moslem. In fact, Indonesian’s people still elevate the Eastern culture. It can be seen from their daily behaviour. For example, they are respect to the other, care, not individualism, etc. Islamic education started from internal factor. Actually, family and environments be importance factor which effected to children’s character. However, Islamic education can be reached through the habits which embedded. It is appropriate with the Stone’s statement (1997: 2), “Children learn a repertoire of behaviours that when repeated become habits, which in turn facilitate the formation of good character." In Islamic education, children are taught to be a good person who has some character. For example, people must be obediently to the parent, respectful to other, be kind person, be honest person, be a fair person, stay away from indecency, etc. In short, Islamic education related to build the characteristics of the children through the religious (Islamic) laws because there is any language of behavior to be closer to God through worship without forgetting attitude toward the people around them.
On the other hand, the characteristic of children can build through language learning. Language is important things to communicate human desire and respect another person. Definition of language that according to oxford dictionary, “The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way”. The respond of other people can be reached through the language. There are two kind of language, verbal and non-verbal. According to Larry A. Samovar (2000: n.d), “Nonverbal communication involves all those nonverbal stimuli in a communication setting that are generated by both the source and his or her use of the environment and that have potential message value for the source or receiver.” The definition means that language reflects the cultural orientation. It can show about how the language is work as a process. The definition of verbal language based on oxford dictionary, “Relating to or in the form of words.” It shows that verbal language is related to a word.
In fact, language is related to the cultures. The characteristic of Language learners has to be adapted to other person’s characteristic in the different culture. Furthermore, Dr. Tengku Sepora Tengku Mahadi (2012: n.d) based on Edward Sapir (1956: n.d) says that culture is a system of behaviors and modes that depend on unconsciousness. On the other hand, Goodenough (1996: n.d) also claims that culture was a systematic association of people that have a certain way of life. Therefore, the culture was the only distinction between human and animals. The differences between human being and animal are the characteristic and the mind. Furthermore, the children are taught to conscious about what are they do. It shows that language teaches the person to be a human being who conscious about what they do. Indeed, Consciousness is embedded from the beginning to build children's personalities. Consciousness itself will become a habit or culture that is done subconsciously.
In conclusion, Islamic education and language learning are related to build the children’s characteristic. Both of them are a way to build the children’s characteristic. However, they are different. In Islamic education, the children must have a good characteristic that appropriate to religion laws (islamic). Whereas, language learning can increase the children’s characteristic through the language cultures itself. It means that children must have a good behaviour according to the language cultures which learned. The key word both of them is how to a human being (children) can understand about their self and another person based on what they learned. Especially, they can learn in two ways, Islamic education and language learning.(Tika)