English Education

The British linguist H.G Widdowson once pointed out that the speech activity has two levels, one is to regard listening , speaking , reading and writing as a means by which the students can grasp the rules of the language after repeated practices. The other is to regard listening, speaking, reading and writing as the ultimate purpose of teaching by which the students can use the language in communication in reality. Some teachers believe that it is good to limit their students only in doing something like improving the communicative competence of their students. They pay little attention to the grammatical structure of their students’ speaking. This is only one side of the coin. We all know that grammar is not only the core of a language, but a theoretical tool in regulating language. Those above- mentioned teachers ignore this idea; they pay their attentions only to the communicative function of the language and reject grammar. If a teacher teaches the students in communicative ...

Most researches on reading now focus on the effective reading strategies that increase students’ comprehension. Guthrie (1996) argues that most researchers study a single cognitive strategy, rather than conducting a long-term study of multiple strategies. Besides, few studies have addressed the issues related to “motivation” and “engagement”. As Guthrie puts it: reading is based on motivational and cognitive characteristics of the reader…who is intrinsically motivated, builds knowledge, uses cognitive strategies, and interacts socially to learn from text. These engagement processes  can be observed in student’s cognitive effort, perseverance, and self-direction in   reading. It is the teacher’s responsibilities to motivate reading by selecting the appropriate materials and  especially for those at the early stages of learning. Guthrie and Humenick performed a meta analysis of studies that manipulated several aspects of intrinsic motivation support for reading. Thes...

This article is qouted from one of my favorite site, it is about reading exercise. Do you know how to categorize a test or an exercise is included to good or bad especially in reading exercise. To answer the question, I try to share information about good reading exercise . Let’s look at what a good reading exercise should do. 1.       A good reading exercise directs the learners’ attention to features of the text that can be found in almost any text, or to strategies for dealing with any text, with the aim “to develop in the language learner the ability to comprehend texts , not to guide him to comprehension of a text ” (Davies and Widdowson, 1974: 172). To put it another way, when learners study a reading text, we want them to gain knowledge that will help them to understand tomorrow’s reading text. We want them to learn things that apply to all texts. We want them to gain knowledge of the language and ways of dealing with the language rather than an unde...

Teaching is an organized work. In order to make it work effectively, teacher need a lesson plan (rpp). Lesson plan or RPP in Indonesian Language cannot be separated from teachers . A professional Teacher should prepare him/herself before teaching his/her students . Then, he or she should prepare the materials in Teaching English Language . One of the preparation is prepare the Lesson Plan or RPP . It usually contains information about Base Competence, Indicators, Teaching Methods , Teaching Strategies , Teaching Media, Teaching Materials, Teaching Objectives, Teaching Sequence, and etc. The lesson plan should be made based on the students' needs . Here you can download Lesson Plan for Senior High School. Silahkan anda download rpp bahasa inggris SMA, SMK, MA Disini. Just click the link below Download Lesson Plan for: SMA Kelas X SMA Kelas XI SMA Kelas XII Do you need lesson plan for Junior High School ( Rpp bahasa inggris SMP/MTs )? If Yo...

When talking about children and adult we will think about their differences. As I said that one of their difference is ability in learning a foreign language . The difference between child and adult ability in learning a foreign language has been researched by some experts and  teachers. What factors are influencing ability in foreign language acquisition ? How can a foreign language be acquired fast? And some similar questions about child versus adult language acquisition have been answered by experts in their researches about critical age language learning . A number of years ago, language teachers and researchers believed in a critical period for language learning (Scovel, 1988). That period was said to end with brain lateralization (early theorists posited age five as the time of lateralization; the theory was later amended to suggest that this occurs during the teenage years). Brain lateralization refers to the brain’s finalizing the location of the functions that will be ...