English Education

We all live today in the era of the visual, of the nonverbal. People are continuously and excessively exposed to television, cinema and theater, and these media transmit a multitude of types and bits of information in nonverbal (NV) channels. From a young age children learn to understand the “NV language,” to decipher implicit codes and to make meaning of social situations from numerous, often very subtle NV nuances (including lighting, camera angles, music, and certainly facial expressions and body language). People learn to understand situations without having to receive verbal explanations, such as knowing instantaneously whether they are provided with facts (news), told a story (movies or series) or being manipulated (advertising) the minute they turn on their TV. “NV behavior” includes all expressive aspects that are “non-verbal,” that is, that they have no verbal content, words, or spoken and/or written language. NV research focuses on body lang...

The modern study of language acquisition began about twenty-five years ago, and it is no coincidence that its birthday followed fairly closely upon the birth of what we now call cognitive science.! One of the first human abilities that was shown to be "cognitive," in the sense of best being explained in terms of mental computations or rules acting on representations, was the child's acquisition of the syntax of his or her first language (Chomsky, 1959; Brown, 1958; Berko, 1958; Braine, 1963). It became clear early on that to understand why children say what they say, and how they learn to speak as adults, one must know what is in the child's mind, and that what is in the child's mind is best described in terms of "rules," "categories," "operations," and the like. The versions of functionalism, information-processing psychology, and cognitivism developed by Chomsky (1957), Newell and Simon (1961), Miller, Galanter, and Pribram (1960), ...

In assessing what might be done to improve the state of the curricular art , we are inevitably drawn into discussion of the nature of motives for learning and the objectives one might expect to attain in educating youth. Obviously, matters of such enormous scope can be considered only briefly here. Yet certain issues seem to be particularly in need of closer scrutiny in relation to the designing of curricula . In planning a curriculum, one properly distinguishes between the long-run objective one hopes to achieve and certain short-run steps that get one toward that objective. Those of a practical turn of mind are likely to say that little is served by stating long-term objectives unless one can propose short-run methods for their achievement. More idealistic critics may too readily dismiss short-run educational goals on the grounds that they cannot see where they lead. We are inclined to take a middle ground. While one benefits from clarity about t...

Do you know newspapers? Of course Yes. But only a creative teacher knows that it can be used as a teaching media . Newspapers are easy to be brought in the class in different subjects and courses, especially in literature, language classes , history etc. Some of them have valuable information for these subjects, but we should know how to find this information. Many libraries have systems of classification according to the topics and issues and we can easily find our way in searching this information. If not we would spend a lot of time to find something. It is often said that academic success starts at the library. The variety of subjects and topics makes newspapers interesting and motivating for the students to work with. Newspapers report real-life events, and this arouses students’ curiosity. Newspaper-based activities in the classroom may engage students in enjoyable activities and encourage their further reading. Newspapers are an invaluable sour...

This blog are created in because of my new hobby, blogging. I like blogging because I can share everything to all readers in the world. Second, as a candidate of English teacher, I should practice my writing skill in order to be better, so through posting in this blog I it improve my writing skill. I am sure that researchers have been never researched about the correlation between posting articles performance in a blog and writing ability , or the effect of having a blog or website and writing ability. But I am sure that they have close relationships. Then, by blogging we can have a lot of friends from all countries in the world, such as: Indonesia (my beloved country), Malaysia, Australia, United State of America (USA), United Kingdom (UK), Spain, Italy, Holland, Finland, Japan, etc. The last is because as far as I know, the best person is one who brings benefits to others. I hope this blog contribute the readers. I choose “ English Education ” as ...