Saturday, November 28, 2009

Language laboratory classroom

Managing a language laboratory classroom
Language laboratory is a place where the language learners are able to study language more precisely and enjoyable. In the language laboratory, pupils mainly study listening comprehension which is focused on audio learning resources. It means that they are introduced to some utterances and spoken language conveyed through an audio or audio-visual media.
Teaching language must be different with teaching other subjects. Teacher needs to emphasize the use of language features correctly, especially in writing section. However, in the listening and speaking comprehension, the use of correct grammatical structure can be ignored. Spoken language tends to be spontaneous. Moreover, spoken language may happen in any situation, it isn’t planed and organized well.
In a language laboratory class which demands more about speaking and learning comprehension, students can improve their language mastery by understanding a conversation. From a dialogue, they may obtain new vocabularies related to utterances, greetings and reduced form of words. Therefore, they are not only able to understand the structure of the sentences but also understanding how to speak and giving feedback to a situation.
Since mastering language isn’t easy things to do, teacher needs to commit some efforts to improve students’ ability in learning language. Language laboratory provides the learning solutions. It facilitates students in comprehending language. Teacher needs to wisely arrange good language laboratory activities that involve students in giving feedback/responses in the learning process.




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Learning easier with proper solution formulas

Children or adults they have their own ways of learning. However, the most important thing is that they need a proper method in learning. Since the school activities, sometimes, make children confused in obtaining the learning subject, such as math, physics, biology, etc. Children may need some helps to improve their learning result.

Parents may choose a private course for children and it will be better if they take a professional learning assistant provider. You can visit algebra-help to see more detail about the course that children may take. Math or physics sometimes become a very difficult to learn. Through a better and intensive learning method, learning those subjects can be more easier.

As what we know, learning Math, Chemistry and Physics must be related to the data's computing which is including numbers. That's the reason why students dislike and tend to avoid that subjects to learn. Actually, there is many solution of learning which can be obtained through scheduled course. This is very helpful for children in understanding the learning subjects. In learning Math, for example, we need a better solution which can help students solving Math problem faster. The course itself have to provide well structured and well thought out Math tutoring program. The formula given must afford to solve math-word-problems.
 
Learning is about understanding a material. You need to do not only one in a month or a week, you need to do it daily. However, if you don't have enough time to study in a class or attend a course. You can choose E-learning to solve your learning problems. E-learning is about on line tutorial which you can retrieved through Internet network. You can try to learn from a site for example when finding math-problems you can search the best solution through on line tutorial, such as math-answers.
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MA sentence to disable the national test for students graduation (UN)


      Mahkamah agung (MA), the highest supreme court of Indonesia, issued a shocking sentence which directly affected the education field. The sentence is related to the prohibition of the national test for students graduation (UN). This surprising decision demanded government not to run the national graduation test on 2010.

     The MA's decision is based on citizen lawsuit which is submitted by some educational elements, such as students, teachers and some educational scholars. However, Education Department of Indonesia will think about submitting reconsideration (PK) to MA. This is to prevent the national graduation test becoming illegal in 2010.

    National Education Ministry of Indonesia, Mohammad Nuh, will organize their troops to anticipate this problem. He said, as cited in Seputar Indonesia daily newspaper, “Kita akan koordinasikan dulu”. It means that government through education department will do some efforts to save the national graduation test.

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Tips to teach children about animals



Children usually have higher curiosity than adult do. They use their time to learn something new. They can learn from their surrounding. The most important, we can help them to learn by supporting them. We can be a good facilitator in learning. In this writing, I would like to give some tips about how to introduce children to animals. There are some option which may help you:
Story telling.
The first and easiest way of teaching children about animal is using a story. The story must be a fable which provides a lot of moral value. You can choose a story book with colorful animal characters to attract your children's interest. However, the most important thing is your ability in conveying the story. You can be a funny and silly person when reading the story. It may entertain your kids and stimulate them to laugh. Through this way, children will automatically received more information about animals.
Picture
This is considered as the most common way of introducing animals. Pictures is the representation of the real animal. You can just show the picture and start to introduce your children to the animals shown through pictures. However, you can also create some activities for your children, such as, drawing or coloring the animal pictures.
Visiting a zoo.
Visiting zoo may the perfect solution of introducing children to animals. This accommodates children to see and recognize the animal directly. Besides, your children won't be bored because they are involved in the real world of animals. They are not only able to learn the animals' name but also the animals behavior and other animals' characteristics.
Those tips above is just my opinion which can be a reference in guiding your children learning about animals. If you plan any other activities, please consider the animals' characteristic as the main resources of your method in introducing children to animals. However, I hope that tips will help you. :)


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Friday, November 27, 2009

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Teaching English as Foreign Language Problems


Since English is foreign language, learning English for Indonesian may be difficult. Learning foreign language isn’t as easy as learning second language. When learning second language, people may have many chances to practice it in the community. Meanwhile, it is almost impossible to use foreign language in the indonesian community. For that reason, Teaching English is considered as a difficult job which demands the specific skills. 

Some teaching method has been improved to enhance the quality of teaching and learning, such as TPR, Communicative approach, direct method, etc. However, there are still many problems during the Teaching English as Foreign Language (TEFL). During my first TEFL (as an English instructor trainee) in a junior school in Boyolali, I got several problems, such as: 

Students’ low motivation in learning English 
Sometime, I meet students with low interest in learning, esspecially English. They tend to think that English is too dificult to learn and it doesn’t applicable in the real community. 

The lack of vocabulary mastery of the students 
Students have less vocabulary mastery because they rarely get vocabularies from their own comprehension. They only commit to memory some difficult words and their meaning. 

The bad management of the teachers 
Not only from students, I also confess that sometimes I made mistakes in teaching. Managing students may be a problem. In certain classes, I need to determine proper teaching methods. 

TEFL is considered to be more difficult than  teaching both mother tongue and second language. There are many problems which can be found during its process. Through this writting, I just want to share my experiences and hopefully you give appropriate solutions for those problems.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Motivation as the First Priority of Success in Learning Process

Motivation as the first priority of success in learning process
In my opinion, motivation can be defined as the internal factor of human which highly stimulate them to do something. However, other factors (such as teacher, the lesson, and student condition) may influence whether motivation will be reduced or improved. Related to the students, high motivation will lead them to a better learning atmosphere. It brings students to be more enthusiastic in the teaching-learning process. Their desire of learning is improved through the pupils’ motivation.
Motivation comes from student’s internal condition. However, it can be influenced by some external factor, such as family condition, teacher, book, and friend. Besides, students need positive stimulants that may improve their motivation, especially in learning. They may enjoy in their learning process when having good physical condition. Giving students enough food nutrients can be a solution for their health.
Due to the importance of motivation, teacher as the students’ facilitator takes the urgent role of increasing students’ motivation. Teacher may create a fun and interesting teaching-learning program without ignoring the main objectives of the lesson. It seems hard to do but it’s really important. Teacher can use not only text book, they can create fun activities such as games, or use other teaching tools, such as picture, flash cards, etc. It may attract students’ interest and give them motivation to learn the material.
Students dislike to learn in pressure and they enjoy the positive learning. Teacher can help students to learn by adjusting their teaching method. However, they shouldn’t lose their power as teacher. If they find trouble makers, teachers can give proper punishment. Some constraints in the class must be clear and pupils have to respect to them. In the contrary, for the students who are successfully done teacher tasks may achieve reward. The reward can be additional score, approbation, achievement star, etc. Teacher may give reward to students to make a competition and it will increase their motivation in learning.
Since motivation is very important to determine the success of teaching and learning process in the class, the motivation of learning have to be improved through fun and joyful learning. Besides, students itself need to pay attention to their physical condition. A better students’ health will make them able to attend the lesson well.
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Thursday, November 5, 2009

Folklore: one of media to teach children morality


Folklore is kind of tales which is related to culture and traditional values. Fable, fairy tales or short story may be listed as folklore. Folklore is usually used to convey some wise message while entertaining children. Since its educative purpose, folklore still exists and even popular for children. It is mostly told before children having sleep or in other occasion. Through folklore, children will intensionally acquire more morality values. The main message of tales is that justice and goodness will always win. 
 
Folklore may give impact for children. It can be a media of conveying the basic of good behavior because it is fun and doesn't force children to do something. It is naturally taught them how they should be through some message implied there. The character of the tales may give perfect example of the effect of acting bad or good. In the 'Malin Kundang' tales, for example, children will know the bad effect of mutiny the parents, that is becoming statue as what happened to Malin Kundang. 
 
In addition, folklore is easily persuading children to do good things. Some say that folklore, or fairy tales can improve the intelligence, emotional and spiritual value of children. Moreover, it can develop children's morality that may lead them to be able to determine the negative or positive of attitudes, values or behavior. It directly influence the way of children solving problems. Besides , it educates children to be more wise and respect to their surrounding, such as their friend, parents and their environment. 
 
Folklore also emphasizes on the children imagination. I have ever heard that imagination is more powerful than the reality. Imagination may important to children development. It can improve the intelligence and give some good values to children. Through folklore, parents can teach children responsibility of becoming social creatures. Morality, religious, cultural values that may implied in the folklore giving them perfect modeling of becoming a real human.
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

What do our kids eat at the school?

What do our kids eat at the school
What do our kids eat at the school
Since it provides calories, vitamins, nutrients and others important substances, Food is considered as the essential need of human. It helps people to get some energy to do their activities. However, not all kind of food is good for human. Some of them may consist of dangerous additional substances, such as preservative, dye, and many more. It doesn’t matter when the additional substance used is really made for food only. Unfortunately, some of food producers do not pay attention to their consumers’ health. They prefer using cheap non-food additional substances which may not fulfill the health requirement to reach more benefit.
Just for moments ago, there are many issues of unsafe food which is exists in the community, in this case is in Indonesia. The use of borax, clothes dye and others chemical substances are massively done by some food sellers. As a result, there are many dangerous food distributed in the public. They are not only packaged but also fast food product, such as ‘bakso’, ‘mie ayam’, and many more. In addition, some sellers also specify their target consumer to school students. In this way, the sellers will achieve more profit, but our kids will be endangered.
So, what kind of foods which are usually sold in some school in Indonesia? They may snack, fast food, and some drinks. However, is it really safe? Is it passed BPOM (Standard Food and Medicine Determiner of Indonesia) filter. This is the main question which may emerge in our mind.
Non-Safe food criteria:
  1. Expired food
  2. Food with many additional substances, such as borax, preservation formula, etc.
  3. Unregistered food
Since there are many dangerous food sold in school, parents should wisely give their children understanding about how to choose better food to consume. Besides, parents can give delicious healthy food to be brought by their children to school. This is aimed to reduce their kids’ expenses in food. I think it will be better rather than giving them more pocket money.


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