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JOURNAL MAKING IN INSTRUCTION (TEACHING), RESEARCH EXTENSION WORK
No full textThis paper focuses on the advantageous use of journal in instructional, extension and research work. With the current trend of teachers involvement in three --- instruction, extension, and research --- sometimes four (including production) functions, journal-making process can never be underestimated. From simple reflective statements and insights to more analytical and in-depth viewpoints regarding the events of the day, or the fieldworks data gathered in the field, until the process of writing and re-writing the actual output, journal making helps attain what is called as intersubjectivity and multidisciplinarity. This makes a teacher, community/ extension worker, or researcher, a participant to the whole process of development
THE ANALYSIS OF COVEY'S THE SEVEN HABITS OF mGHLY EFFECTIVE TEENS TRANSLATION VERSION
Get PDFMany translation books have undergone the process of translation, but some o/them contain problems of translatlon, which may lead to the spread o/inaccurate in formation. The problema may occur because the translation works contain distortion in it. The kinds of distortion itself vary in types. Therefore, In this study the writer explores the translation of Covey's Seven Habits for Highly Effective to find what kinds of distortlons, which the bookhos. The writer tries to classify the weak points In the translation version. The result of this analysis shows that there are six types of distortions found intranslation version. They are the distortion 0/ idiom, paraphrase, diction, under translation, over translation and mistranslation
RETHINKING TRADITION IN MODERN LIFE
Get PDFIn a general sense, tradition is associated with the past that remains integral to us all, while on the other hand modernity look towards the future. Historically, traditions derived from local conditions such as social system, climate, our natural environment and our beliefs about religion and philosophy. However, modernity is more related to our social economic, technology and global information; this influence changes our attitude towards; our heritage and what we should do about it. In the long existence of humanity a new generation appears roughly every twenty five years. In modern time to question is how can tradition survive in the dynamic advancement of modernization? In the West and even in the Eastern culture together with the influence of modernity, traditions and different customs have gradually declined, and in some cases have disappeared. Has tradition and all it stands for been left behind and disappeared
TEACHING ENGLISH WITH DRAMA FOR YOUNG LEARNERS: SKILL OR CONFIDENCE?
Get PDFThere are various ways in teaching English to children. One of them is by using drama. Drama is basically an expressive activity that is, generally speaking, suitable for children's condition. The children's condition mentioned in this article deals a lot with their being dynamic, enthusiastic and full of imagination. The idea of using drama to support the learning process of children is increasingly recognised in a wide range of school settings. The children here are specifically aimed at students who are in pre and primary schools - young learners.
Focusing on literacy and oracy processes, this article attempts to give an overview on how to use drama in teaching English for young learners
CATERING STUDENTS' NEEDS TO PROMOTE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN EFL LITERATURE CLASS WITH REFERENCE TO RESPONSE-CENTRED CURRICULUM
Get PDFThe success of literature instruction is dependent upon not only the teaching strategies, but also the well-developed curriculum, which accommodates student needs. Teaching practice of literature in the multicultural contexts has to do with teachers' belieft in approaching to their day-to-day practice endowed in the curriculum they are concerned with. In this respect, the existing literature curricula should ideally reflect aesthetic experiences that enhance students' freedom and enjoyment with literary works assigned The present study examines how three case High School English teachers from different sites with different multicultural entities in West Java, Indonesia, developed literature curricula in such a way that their students got 'free room' to express what they wanted and needed to say and to do. Following the traditions of a qualitative multi-case and -site study, the present study investigated the process of teaching literature in language studies streams of the three sites by occupying classroom observation and interview, and administering questionnaires as well. The findings revealed that, in their classroom practices, the three cases endeavored to cater their students' needs through developing negotiated response-based literature curriculum that led to varied and unique activities in the forms of celebrations showing their personal engagements in responding to.Jiterature assigned. Yet, their different schooling systems and contextual factors, and the subjects' perspectives in literature pedagogy and their lived-through literary. reading experiences, have made each case indicate typical and unique phenomena, which is in accordance with the spirit of school-based curriculum
THE CHANGING SENSE OF POLITENESS IN FEMALE CHARACTERS IN MARGARET MITCHELL'S GONE WITH THE WIND
Get PDFSense of politeness in language is an important aspect in human interaction. Since it is dealing with society,this makes politeness something flexible based on place and time. It means that what is meant by word "polite" is different from one place to another place or even politeness in a particular area changes from time to time. One of literary works that gives a clear description about a society including sense of politeness is Margaret Mitchell's story of the Old South Gone With the Wind. Though it is an old story we still are able to learn something from it about sense of politeness. Gone With the Wind novel took old southern United States society in American civil war era (1861-1865) as the setting of the story,
which still adopted patriarchy system. This society had a tendency to clearly polarize men and women's role in the family and society, in which the women should be kind, polite, and gracious. While on the other hand, men, who held the superior position in the society. could express their feeling more freely. This politeness changes when the Civil War comes through this process, there are many changes in the society that influence the rapport. From the beginning when women must speak soft, gracious, and, politely, until the coming of the war, in which they have to leave all their old status as the inferior people. And the last is when the men returned back to their family
HEREDITARY EXPERIENCE IN KELLY'S POEM
Get PDFThis article concerns with a stylistic analysis on a poem in terms of Systemic Functional Linguistics and Verbal Art Semiotics. The writing uses library research, qualitative data, documentary study, descriptive method, and intrinsic objective approach. The semantic analysis results in both automatized and foregrounded meanings. Then the automatized meaning produces lexical cohesion and in turn, it produces subject matter. Meanwhile, the foregrounded meaning produces the literary meaning and in turn, it creates theme. Finally, the analysis indicates that the subject matter is about the human characteristics, the literary meaning is about parental sadness and happiness, and the theme is about hereditary experience
THEEFFEC~NESSOFTEACBING LEARNING STRATEGIES FOR LISTENING: A THEORETICAL ASSUMPTION
Get PDFOf the four language skills, listening is often considered to
be the most crucial for the language learner since listening is a highly interactive skill and many SLA researchers have demonstrated its significant role in language acquisition (Vandergrift 1996). The appropriateness, and effective usage of listening strategies can help learners to facilitate the language process. Oxford (1989) states that there is a relationship between learner's variables and the choice of language learning strategies (LLSs). Therefore, the use of appropriate (LLSs), especially metacognitive strategies are significant to improve and advance learners' listening proficiency because their language level will rise
IMPROVING STUDENTS' CLASSROOM BEHAVIOUR BY MAXIMIZING TEACHER-STUDENT INTERACTION DURING CLASS
No full textBehaviour is one thing that is really important in one's life achievement. Behaviours will develop into character that defines one's future. Further, a research of Swick shows that a student's behaviour in the classroom significantly affects his/her behaviour outside the classroom, as in the real world.
This article is focusing on a way to improve the students'
behaviour in the classroom. Teachers, as students' motivator and role model, can encourage them to improve their behaviour through the limited learningprocess at school. It not
through the presented material, yet it is through the way the
material is presented in the class, the interaction led by the
teacher. This article is trying to apply the communication
science into classical teaching-learning process related to
Skinner behaviourism theory. The better the stimulus, the
better the response will be. Interaction is. seen as the stimulus
and the students' behaviour is seen as the response to it. The
better the interaction, the better the behaviour will be
THE NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION: AN EXPRESSION OF THE BLACK FREEDOM
No full textthe history of black America is miserable. Their ancestors coming from West Africa were taken to America trough the South to become slaves. Their human rights wee banned for centuries. They lived in a democratic country, America, but they had no right to live properly. They dreamt to have a life as the whites had. In the nineteenth century, it happened that a rat development in Protestant Christendom opened the opportunity for the establishment of black churches. The National Baptist Convention, whose major followers were blacks, was a denomination that existed in America. This denomination accommodated the aspiration of freedom for the blacks in America