Education nowadays

By Setia Ningsih Many parents choose homeschooling rather than public school for their children’s education. Parents may have their own reasons in choosing homeschooling as their children education. They may think that they can have a personalized schedule of homeschooling. Both parents and children can arrange their own learning time. Parents can also have their own curriculum based on children needs. The question is: can homeschooling give bad effect on children social life?Is it really worth for children’s future? Ray (2015) said that the home-educated are doing well, typically above average, on measures of social, emotional, and psychological development. Research measures include peer interaction, self-concept, leadership skills, family cohesion, participation in community service, and self-esteem. This means that homeschooling does not always have the term “strict” in it, especially for children life. Children can enjoy their social life as well as other children who have e

By: Ulfatun Maghfiroh As a foreign language learner, you might be questioning what Phrasal Verb is once you hear that couple words. However, for those who have been aware of it, you might think, it's one of the hardest parts of English language learning.  Whether you notice or not, actually you had already heard phrasal verb since you’re an elementary school student. Your teacher certainly had ever said “Turn off the lamp!” or “Hand in your assignment ASAP!” Both of them are samples of Phrasal Verb that commonly used on our daily conversations in school. For better understanding about phrasal verb, let me introduce a bit of it for you guys.     What is phrasal verb? A phrasal verb is a combination of words which are a verb + a preposition/adverb. The meaning of phrasal verb is utilized itself behind the original verb’s meaning. So, if we would like to get the meaning of phrasal verb, we cannot sperate each word and translate it as an individual thing, we should ta

By Ulfatun Maghfiroh (2201417036) Young learner?  Story-telling?  Relationship?  You guys might be questioning, what the relationship between them are. Before talking about it, let me bring you back to your childhood time first. The time when there were no gadget, internet nor game. At that time, we were busy playing and going around with our friends. At the end we were talking a horror story to make each of our friends frightening. For me the best part of them is the horror story session. Because it could enrich our knowledge and enhance our imagination about things we don’t know about. It could also bring us to draw a colorful picture with various interesting characters. In short, we loved to listen somebody else’s stories.  Let's go back to the right track, here is the explanation: Who are young learners? Young learners are those who born till at the age of twelve years old.  What is storytelling? Storytelling is one of the famous techniques in learni

By Setia Ningsih English is an international language and that’s a fact. Many countries include English education as one of their major subject, especially in Asia, where people do not speak English as their first language. However, are people really aware of the roles of English education itself especially in Asia? Based on a research conducted by Chang (2011) There are some roles of English education in Asian context. They are 1. English as a way of speeding up national Development. Chang (2011) stated the purpose of English language education in Asian countries is to emphasize the bi-directionality in communicating among Native Speakers and Non-Native Speakers in globalized world, including social, economy, education, and other aspects that can lead to National Development. English proficiency can be used as an investment in the process of building a nation. Asian people who study English may have bigger chance to achieve goals in the future since we know that English

By  Dwi Nur Asiyah Age 1-5 years is the golden age of children. When children are at this age, parents should maximize their child's development by giving positive inputs and applying learning methods that are right for them. This is very important, because when parents wrongly provide treatment when they are in the golden age, it will be difficult to change when the child is growing up. One of the things that can be instilled in children during this golden age is the habit of reading. In this digital age, many children, even from a very early age, have become addicted to gadgets. Usually parents introduce gadgets to children on the grounds the child will be calm and not fussy when they play games / watch videos on the gadget. But unfortunately, this can have a negative impact on children both physically and mentally. It would be very unfortunate also when in the golden age but children spend too much time playing with gadgets. Therefore, it would be better if parents introduce

By  Dwi Nur Asiyah In the past, when we were little, maybe the teacher became one of the professions we wanted to live. But as we grow older, many of us begin to have other goals, such as becoming doctors, architects, entrepreneurs and so on. There are those who have found a passion that suits them, but there are also those who see the reality of the teacher whose life is far from prosperous so they throw away the desire to become a teacher. We have read and heard a lot of sad stories of honorary teachers in Indonesia. Starting from a small salary, the struggle to teach in remote places, working part time to get extra money and so forth. It is really sad to know the reality of what happened. One of the stories that is quite touching is the story of an honorary teacher named Panji Setiaji. The video that shows him being awarded a shoe and motorcycle from a volunteer community, viral on social media. Panji is always seen wearing torn shoes when teaching at the school where he works.