English Education

Pictures are considered as the most effective media , which provide valuable assistance to students conveying ideas more easily and fully than words. Picture used in the teaching learning process should be show representative object and should be familiar with the student, so the student will be easy to use and understand the picture. By looking the picture, the students are encouraged to express their ideas . Picture provides an excellent opportunity for the use of vocabulary and it may stimulate the imagination encourage the student's participation in an interactive classroom atmosphere so that they will get better result. Picture often conveys meaning as effectively as words and may enhance memory retention, especially when learner has to think about how to draw the meaning. Picture in one the important media that can be used in the teaching learning process, especially in teaching English. The picture can represent human life such as people, animal, thing and activities. Accor...

As the definitions that have been explained in my previous posting , procedural text is a kind of text that functions to tell to do something such as instructions for how to carry out a task or play a game, directions for getting to a place and rules of behavior.  In writing procedural text, there is the generic structure that should be considered by the writers.  They are goals, materials, and steps.  It is not only considering the generic structure of the text but also the grammatical pattern of the text.  It is the use of command.  A command is an imperative statement. An explanation that does not involve a process or procedure can be written in the simple present active tense in the imperative mood. Imperative sentence is a sentence which is in the form of a command.  In procedural text writing the use of action verb is verb-1, e.g. put, mix, take, and etc .  The use of action verb is in command form.  It de...

Dear readers... This article is about CBI-Based Instructional Models . What is CBI-Based Instructional Models? Read the explanation below! The CBI-based instructional models have gained widespread acceptance in the United States. The cognitive academic language learning approach ( CALLA ; Chamot & O’Malley, 1986) was the first to recognize that it was necessary to put greater focus on English features and strategies in order to help ELLs academically. The specially designed academic instruction in English (SDAIE) model, developed in the 1990s and used in California, has three main components: making content comprehensible and engaging, developing academic language, and providing strategies students can use for independent learning. The sheltered instruction observation protocol (SIOP) model (Echevarria, Vogt, & Short, 2004) was designed for teachers with ELLs in their grade-level classrooms but is now used in several classroom configurations, such as ESL, bilingual, and shelter...