Education nowadays

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 thin...

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 ...

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 wor...

By: Siti Muyassaroh Are you a student or a college student that has difficulties to study? If yes, you need to continue reading this article till end. Nowadays, there are many students or learners that do not really know how to study effectively. The result is, they become lazy to study because they feel like what they’ve done is wasting time. Looking at this case, I have gathered some effective ways to study from some sources. Hopefully they can help you to deal with your difficulties. Here they are: Have the right intention When you want to study, what you need to have firstly is an intention to study, of course. An intention to know and understand what you haven’t. A strong intention will make your study process be more successful. So, before you start to study, make sure that you have a right intention. Try to focus After you have a right intention, you need to focus. Keep something that probably distract you far away such as phone. However, some of you may need this t...

By: Eviyana Rismawati Finland is one of the countries recognized by the world to have the best education system.  Their system is different from the basic principles of education in Indonesia. This country has never given homework to its students. Indonesia was also rumored to want to adopt this system.  But it might require a process because the difference is still quite far. The educational portrait between Indonesia and Finland is very different. This is due to many factors that influence it, one of which is Indonesia is a developing country that is looking for forms of the education system while Finland is a developed country that is no longer focused on the search for forms of the education system but on its development.  If likened, Indonesia is still building the foundation of the education system so that it lags far behind Finland. In Indonesia, objectives of learning are formulated based on Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution. 1945 Constitut...

By: Eviyana Rismawati        First of all, in this article I would like to share my experience in learning English through song. I started to learn English from the 3rd grade in elementary school. At that time there was no English subject in the curriculum so I was taking an English course at school. I was excited to be in thursday because once a week I met Mrs. Lis, an English tutor. She taught me the basic of vocabularies such as greeting and grammar rules. Her personality who was always smiling to everyone made me enjoy the material. I really loved the method taught. I was like a student in the kindergarten. Playing, singing and clapping. When I got new song from Mrs. Lis, I always sang it at home. Now, as a student of English education I can say that the method and strategies used by Mr. Lis are appropriate for children. The song which Mrs. Lis taught even still in my mind until now. I believe that song is effective for teaching children the second ...

By: Novita Devi Kristianti In this Covid-19 pandemic has big impacts for all sectors. 11 February 2020 WHO (world health organization) said Covid-19 is a new virus from Wuhan, China. It claims for all counties to pay attention to this virus. In Indonesia, the government decided to make a rule about social distancing. Schools, public places, and all of the activities have limited. Teaching and learning move in daring or online learning. It makes a solution for learning when this situation (corona pandemic). According to some teachers, this system is just effective to give homework or assignment for students. They think that learning is more effective in a conventional system. Some theories should teach face to face so they can more understand and the teacher knows what the students need and their weakness in the lesson.  Rosyida Qonita one of the teachers in MTs Ma'ahid Kudus explained that she assumes to teach the conventional system. "In terms of effective...

By: Siti Muyassaroh There are many genres of text in English. They are descriptive, report, narrative, recount, procedure, exposition, and so on. Those text are divided according to the different function and structure. However, in this article, we are only going to talk about exposition text. Further, exposition text is also divided into three texts. They are analytical exposition text, hortatory exposition text, and discussion text. Those texts mainly aim to share writer’s opinion, idea, point of view, and arguments about a particular topic. As the title, we are going to discuss about analytical exposition and hortatory exposition, so we will set aside the discussion text for the time being. Many English learners have been confused by those two texts above because they almost have the same structures. To be more detail, I will put them in below with their social function: Analytical exposition text Social function: To persuade the readers or listeners that something ...