The Shocking Footprint

I joined Environmental Education course in the third semester. I am interested in this elective course because I want to respect the environment because our environment is getting worse. I also want to do the real action to keep our environment better. I want to change my habitual action which is bad because by joining Environmental Education I can learn more about the eco-friendly life. In the previous meetings, I experienced the journey as a human that destroy our earth a lot because so far I have not realized yet that actually I also gave the contribution to make this earth worse.

I want to be the green teacher so I can spread to my students to keep this earth better. This is the link of my footprint http://myfootprint.org/en/your_results/?id=1612262 . By opening that link, you can see my contribution to make this earth worse. Thus, start from now on, I will try to implement eco-friendly life. I do not want to destroy the earth anymore because I still want to see the bright future of the next generation. So, by knowing our footprint we can start to decrease it to keep our environment better.

I can take the advantages by joining this course. I realized that we as human need to do the real action because so far we destroyed our earth until the threat came to us. The natural disaster happened because of the human’s action. The big current issue about global warming made all people in the world should think about the effect in the future. Unfortunately, there are only some people who gave their attention about this issue. We need to make other people aware about this case so it will be much better if many people know about it. If there are many people know about it and they can do the real action to keep our earth so our earth will be better. Then, they can invite their relatives and friends to do the same. As the next generation of teacher, I am going to spread this to my students so I can invite them all to do the real action.

Resource: The picture was taken from http://www.google.co.id/imgres?q=footprint (November, 17th 2011)

The 4th Reflective Journal of TLL

According to me, writing is one of the hardest skills even more in English. If we want to have good writing skill, we have to practice it a lot. We cannot have good writing skill instantly. We need to conduct our idea and English which is very hard. We should master English first then, it can help us in conducting our idea in writing. The problem is sometime we are strong in speaking but weak in writing, so it is about talent or interest. Nowadays, we have technology which could help us a lot in improving our writing skill. Step by step, we can sharpen our writing skill by learning the process of writing itself.

Based on Raimes (1991) the focus of second language writing has changed but it can still give effect on today’s writing skill. in 1960s writing was viewed as a means of reinforcing speech patterns but in 1980s till present as a text understood by the reader. There are also some approaches that can be used to L2 writing instruction. One of them is Form-focused approach, this approach includes two types. Those are Grammar-based and Discourse structure-based instruction. This emphasize on accuracy. I am going to relate this approach with myself. I am in progress in acquiring English and this approach demands the correct grammatical sentences. Sometimes, I made mistakes in grammar so that is why I am a little bit afraid of writing.

Once more, I am glad to know that there are so many websites which can provide us easier way to learn writing. In Grammar-based instruction, we can open ESL Blues, Guide to grammar and Writing, and also Grammar Safari. There is Reader/audience-dominated Approach that gives better attention to the reader and reader expectations. In this approach there is Computer-mediated communication (CMC). It is online discussion forums and email exchange projects, we can discuss something based on our interest. The examples are Dave’s ESL Cafe and Englishforums.com.

As the next generation of teachers, I can reflect it based on the perspective from the students. I am a student ,now and I know that writing is hard. I can try to teach them appropriately because writing skill is one of the hardest skills.

The 3rd Reflective Journal of TLL

To be able to compete with other people from across the world, we need to improve our skill in English. In this case, we talk about speaking skill. As the next generation of educators, we are demanded to master English well. We are going to teach English because we are English teachers so there is no other reason for us to ignore this thing. When talking about language acquisition, I was reminded to memorize some theories which have relation with it. For the example: Krashen’s Hypotheses and Swain the Canadian.

For Indonesia, English is a foreign language. Thus, it is a little bit challenging for us to teach English to Indonesian students. They will get difficulties in learning English in the class so we need to use technology to teach speaking. Beside of that, as English teachers we have to know the theories which related in acquiring language. If we know the principal in acquiring language, how students can absorb language, what steps we should do, find out what kind of thing that can affect the students in acquiring language it will be a little bit easier for us to teach.

Students can learn English from many things. Nowadays, we could not judge that learning process must happen in the class. Although, when they play games in computers or internet we can call that as learning process. In that media, there is English as media for the communication. So, indirectly, they also learn about English. In the class we can also use those technologies. To teach speaking skill, we can use computer as a Tutor like Triple Play Plus and My English Tutor. For the communication skill, we can use MOOs, Chat Room or IRC so the students can learn from the conversation. We can browse that in internet, by the way there are so many software that was provided. In teaching pronunciation skill we can use Articulatory Charts, Dictations, Minimal Pairs and etc.

As the next educators, we should use all things that could help us in teaching language. By doing that, we hope our students can master English and reach the good achievement.

Resources from: http://www.google.co.id/imgres?q=chatting&hl=id&client (On Thursday, October, 13th 2011)

The 3rd Reflective Journal of TLL

To be able to compete with other people from across the world, we need to improve our skill in English. In this case, we talk about speaking skill. As the next generation of educators, we are demanded to master English well. We are going to teach English because we are English teachers so there is no other reason for us to ignore this thing. When talking about language acquisition, I was reminded to memorize some theories which have relation with it. For the example: Krashen’s Hypotheses and Swain the Canadian.

For Indonesia, English is a foreign language. Thus, it is a little bit challenging for us to teach English to Indonesian students. They will get difficulties in learning English in the class so we need to use technology to teach speaking. Beside of that, as English teachers we have to know the theories which related in acquiring language. If we know the principal in acquiring language, how students can absorb language, what steps we should do, find out what kind of thing that can affect the students in acquiring language it will be a little bit easier for us to teach.

Students can learn English from many things. Nowadays, we could not judge that learning process must happen in the class. Although, when they play games in computers or internet we can call that as learning process. In that media, there is English as media for the communication. So, indirectly, they also learn about English. In the class we can also use those technologies. To teach speaking skill, we can use computer as a Tutor like Triple Play Plus and My English Tutor. For the communication skill, we can use MOOs, Chat Room or IRC so the students can learn from the conversation. We can browse that in internet, by the way there are so many software that was provided. In teaching pronunciation skill we can use Articulatory Charts, Dictations, Minimal Pairs and etc.

As the next educators, we should use all things that could help us in teaching language. By doing that, we hope our students can master English and reach the good achievement.