Beyond Language, Teaching, and A Great Equal Opportunity

Beyond Language, Teaching, and A Great Equal Opportunity

By Noor Amalia Utami
A private English Teacher in LBK Sahabat Bahasa 

Raised and grew in a family which most of my relatives are teachers, lectures and educators, I knew that education is important. I knew that I wanted to be a teacher.  

Teaching language is always be my passion since high school and English was my choice. With language, someone can change his/her life. Or even an entire community. Language is a powerful tool to survive and a distinctive key to differentiate us with any other species.

Learning language is started with a phoneme acquisition. By sound, we will understand word and discourses. But, my question is what about those whom having a hearing impairment?

Once I heard about LBK Sahabat Bahasa who is giving a chance for disable to study just like other normal kids, I knew I must join this course.  

I have a chance to teach IELTS for a brilliant deaf student. She is remarkably intelligent. She shows me how deaf understand language and communicate. I understand that it is very difficult for them to communicate and understand in a normal and understandable way. Most of the time, they need to put an extra effort to be in a conversation or grasp information from a lecture.  

As a normal person, I could imagine how difficult it is to lose one of my senses. But, my student, she shows me a great motivation to survive. To get her dreams. To study further abroad. Which I know that's tough even for those who have a complete sense.  

There are people out there just like her. Who have disability yet have a huge dream. Their massive intention to learn somehow do not encouraged by the availability of learning facilities and devoted educator. 

As a teacher, I knew that this world, these people need a place like LBK Sabahat Bahasa and people just like teachers at LBK Sahabat Bahasa. We need to help them. Keep inspired to jump as high as sky. To keep learning and inspiring.