Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
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AUTHENTIC VIDEO: AN ALTERNATIVE TEACHING MATERIAL
No full textNowadays, English teachers and lecturers are offered by abundant alternatives for teaching and learning materials. They are so various starting from the traditional ones up to the updates ones. English teaching and learning materials are available from the textbooks, English magazine, newspapers, and others. In addition, Internet is also resource able as the teaching and learning media or material. One way of utilizing Internet as the teaching and learning resource is by downloading some videos from the Internet. Therefore, this
paper aims at describing and evaluating the usage of authentic
videos for English teaching and learning process. Authentic
video is chosen as the material since it could answer the urgency of contextualization, role-modeling, and authenticity
in English teaching and learning process which recently becomes the newest interest. Besides, this paper is also to give particular points that authentic videos can also be useful for teaching and learning Grammar/Structure in . It means authentic video is also adaptable to be used in any subjects other than Speaking or Listening
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH LEXICON AS THE INFLuENCE OF SOCIAL CHANGES
Get PDFThis paper describes and explains the development of English in general and especially the English lexicon as the influence of social changes from time to time. We know that English can be divided into three periods; the period from 450 to 1100 is known as Old English,from 1100 to 1500, is known as Middle English, and the last, from 1500 up to now is known as Modern English. From the three periods it is found that English always develops and changes. The English of each period is different from the English of other periods
HOW TO REMOVE ANXIETY OF MULTILINGUAL CLASSROOMS?
No full textThe purpose of the paper is to reveal a key issue of multilingual classroom i.e. anxiety. When the teacher is mono-or bi-lingual and learners are multilingual then anxiety level of students is very high which creates threatened, de-motivated, and hold-back attitude among students for learning. As a result, such multilingual classroom is nothing more than a prison for learners which blatantly impairs learning and hampers open communication between teacher and student, who belong to diverse lingual background. Therefore, the paper suggests a strategy acronym as OBWMC (Off and on throwing Basic Words in Multilingual Classrooms). The strategy invites instructor to learn some basic 20-25 words of the learners' mother tongue. In a multilingual classroom mere knowing 20-25 words of students' mother tongue can infuse interest among learners towards language learning, lowers the affectivefilter and bolsters learner's self-esteem. Moreover, it also increases respect for other languages and dispel monotony of monolingual classrooms
AN EXPOS OF MACHO CHARACTERS IN LOUIS LAMOURS WESTERN NOVELS; BRIONNE, THE CALIFORNIOS, AND HONDO
Get PDFThree novels entitled Brionne, The Californios, and Hondo written by Louis LAmour reveal the hard life in the western frontier of America which was still wilderness. LAmour shows the macho characteristics and attitudes through his macho characters. They apply the macho characteristics such as strength, bravery, virility, and manliness but remaining sensitivity. They also possess macho attitudes such as protective, honest, intelligent, with an aesthetic personality
LEARNERS' LANGUAGE CHALLENGES IN WRITING ENGLISH
Get PDFThis paper discusses a number of common linguistic challenges or issues or problems which learners (would-be teachers) of the English language encounter when attempting to express themselves in written form, particularly in paragraph writing. The paper also suggests strategies for dealing with the challenges and points out (dis)advantages of using a certain evaluation approach.
Generally, the common language issues can, for example, be classified into: 1. articles, 2. concord or agreement, 3. finite verbs, 4. prepositions, 5. countable and uncountable nouns, 6. sentence levels (fragments, comma splices and run-on or fused sentences) and 7. spelling. Other general, more abstract challenges include diction or word choice, idiomatic expressions and sentence variations.
The so-called Minimum Requirements, which are commonplace mistakes, as mostly listed in numbers 1-7 above and which learners (particularly those who are English teacher candidates) should avoid, are put forward and commented on. The writer believes this grammar-oriented approach still remains relevant
CHICANA EXPERIENCE IN DENISE CHVEZS FACE OF AN ANGEL : A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
Get PDFThis study is an attempt to examine the experience of three generations of Chicana, women of Mexican descent in the United States, which is viewed from feminist perspective. The purpose of this study is to reveal the changing perspective of Chicanas toward their feminine identity that has been established by patriarchal Mexican and Catholicism cultures. The result of the study shows that the awareness on feminism existed in each generation stimulates the changing perspective toward the constructed feminine identity
A COMPARISON BETWEEN PEER AND TEACHER FEEDBACK ON LEARNERS' LANGUAGEACCURAC~ A CASE STUDY
Get PDFThis study examines how peer and teacher feedback
help learners improve their grammatical accuracy in their
written work. It is a longitudinal case study with twelve
participants of an EFL Grammar class. They did two self
editing tasks and three self-correction tasks on the same written work. In doing the self-correction activities, the learners received three kinds of feedback: direct peer feedback and two kinds of indirect feedback from the teacher. The study found that indirect teacher feedback, in the form of metalanguage comments and underlining errors, gave the biggest contribution to the learners' language accuracy. However, in regard to the consistently corrected errors, peer feedback outperformed teacher feedback in its contribution. The result showed that both direct and indirect feedbacks were beneficial for the learners to raise their awareness towards becoming independent self-editors
NEW SOUTH ASIAN-AMERICAN FICTION: MERGENCE OF A NEW GENRE?
No full textThis paper, uNew South Asian-American Fiction:
Emergence of a New Genre?" focuses on a group of emerging
South Asian-American novelists in the last decade, who give a
new consciousness to fiction. With their multicultural,
multireligious, multilingual and multiethnic traditions, the
newly discovered writers settled in America are growing fast
with new identity. Gifted with tremendous creative eneTgY, they
seize and give artistic shape to experiences in America.
Enjoying a certain degree of critical contributions, their
writings, as a distinct area of literary study, are unlike the other
migrant ones which mostly have reflected the angst and trauma
of the 'Nowhere man '. Their fictional writings have acquired a
shape of spiritual quest that yields eventually towards a sense
of equilibrium, establishing the in-between space as one of
creativity, enrichment, and survival. The paper tries to show
how the current crop of the South Asian writers in America
creates a literary tradition that is formally and thematically
different with a special reference to Manil Suri's The Death of
VIShnu. With a spirit of religious revivalism, they try to re-make
themselves in writing a new genre and new form beingforged.
Their individual styles, new idioms, and diversity of thematic
patterns also point to the changing complexions of lndianAmerican
Literature
INDONESIAN EFL TEACHERS STUDYING OVERSEAS: FEELINGS, EXPECTATIONS, AND PERSPECTIVES ON PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Get PDFOne of the ways to develop English teachers' professional competence is by sending them to study in a graduate program in English language education. Sending English teachers to pursue their higher level of education is one of the policies taken by the Government of East Java to improve English teachers' professional competence. In response to the Government of East Java's policy, teachers were selected to study in a graduate program with a sandwich study. The sandwich takes the format of "in-house training" held at State University of Malang and overseas study in Angeles University Foundation, Philippine. This article explores the English teachers' feelings, expectations, and perspectives on professional development with regard to the opportunity in studying overseas. The results of the study show that studying overseas contributed to professional development of the English teachers participating in the sandwich study program during their graduate education