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If you have not read the 2 previous posts, please read it before starting reading this post, thank you... 3. Teacher/Student Interaction After the teacher explain about the material, the teacher gave the task, and each group was given a “Narrative Text”, and the teacher asked students to discuss and find out the Past Participle (Verb 2) ( it is based on “Simple Past” lesson). During the discussion, some students gave responses and asked a lot of questions actively, they felt free to ask. The teacher moved around the class and made eye contact with the students. The teacher anticipated it very well.   The students were comfortable and relaxed, even during intense intellectual activity, sometimes some students spoke, complained and scream loudly, but the teacher relaxed, and patient to overcome it. The students were treated fairly and with the respect. After 10 minutes, the students must submit the paper to the teacher and the teacher answer the question together with the stude...

Hello, Assalamu'alaikum, I will continue the post that I've posted before, what is the next one? check it out  2. Presentation T he material was explained briefly, the students understand what the teacher told about, even though some students not really understand. The lesson was smooth, sequenced and logical. The teacher firstly introduced “Simple Past”, what is Simple Past, when students use Simple Past and the teacher delivered Simple Past formula, then the teacher start introducing generic structure of Narrative Text which is contained by a Simple Past in it, actually the lesson was not well paced because it was not matching with the syllabus. Material was not presented at the students’ level comprehension, because the teacher used GTM (Grammar Translation Method), not Differentiated Instruction Method, so the teacher only explained the material and the students just listen about it. This method was used, because the students do not have ability to speak Engl...

Assalamu'alaikum everyone, today I would like to give you the example how to observe someone's teaching in the classroom. In this case I would to observe how my friend teaching English in one SMP in Aceh Besar.  you want to see the example how? okay check it out! 1.  Preparation The teacher come to the class with salam and pray before going to study. Then the teacher called the students to check the attendant list, also to know students’ names one by one. Everything was going well in this introduction. After that the teacher begun to teach, the lesson was about “Narrative Text”, it was based on the syllabus. The teacher prepared the “Narrative Text” lesson not very well, because the teacher more focus about Past Tense, she did not teach about “Narrative Text” comprehensively on that whole time. Thus, the material which was taught by the teacher was not match with the syllabus. The teacher should synchronize between the lesson that she wanted to teach and the sylla...

This video got from www.bandisoft.co.kr .  click for video here This teaching learning process was conducted in South Korea but the video uploader did not inform specific where the video took place is. This teaching learning process is in Grade 5 students, they taught about “Possessive Pronoun”. 1.       Role of Teachers and Students There are 2 teachers in this video, male and female. The male teacher is a primary teacher in the classroom who speaks English, without using mother tongue in whole day time in teaching learning process. He had many contributions in the classroom, such as giving vocabulary, keep students desire to study up and make each students active in the classroom, meanwhile, the female teacher is a second teacher who helps primary teacher. She sometimes spoke Korean to make the students understand clearly what the primary teacher said. She also helped the primary teacher to teach students These 2 teachers also play drama in front...

Letter Grades?  In my perspective I am disagree with Letter Grades, by grading students with this way, there is a gap between smart students and low students, it is surely not good for those who have low score, they feel sorrowful, it can break their spirit in learning. It can lead them to do cheating, because they think that by getting an “A” problem will solve, then they decide to cheat. It is surely contrary with the aim of learning itself. Because learning is not about score or the result but, process to get the knowledge. Thus, for teacher, it is better to use another way to assess students. There are a several ways to evaluate a student, for instance like narrative evaluations, where the teacher gives a comment by using letter as a media. On that paper teacher will write some achievement, some correction, for knowing student understanding with the materials that teacher has given. Theses evaluations replaced a grade to some comments as a supplement for grading student. Thi...

Long History of High-Stakes Test  Gregory  J.Cizek  University of North Carolina at Chapell Hill From “Long History of High-Stakes Test” we can see that High-Stakes Test is not effective to measure student, from the history we can conclude, High-Stakes Test is totally cruel to adapt, the history shows that, when the tribe of Ephraim tried to cross the Jordan River, they wanted them to pronounce “Shibboleth”, we may know the Jordan River citizens gave a test to them, if they can not pronounce “Shibboleth” correctly, they was killed by Jordan River citizen, from the history we can see that situation is like violence, when something have to measure by giving a test to produce a perfectness result,  when you fail to do that, you can not pass the test, and it becomes a high risk. We can summarize that High-Stakes Test can not completely apply for assessing students, nowadays, an assessment is not solely using a test, test is not everything, student can not be as...

Analysis Critical Thinking towards the Journal of P2P : Assessing a Peer Evaluation Strategy, by Ching When Chang, Cathy J.Pearman and Nicholas W. Farha, Missouri State University and Logan University. ·        1.    Examine the evidence/ the argument presented In the background of study the authors’ argument stated that previously research has shown about active students engagement teaching learning process in the classroom enhances knowledge acquisition. It can be improving their outcomes very well (Todd and Hudson, 2007). Thus, the researcher wants to prove that Peer Evaluation also believed can improve students’ critical thinking and high outcomes. According to the researcher Peer Evaluation has a number of pedagogical benefits. Purpose of study is to prove that Peer Evaluation is the best strategy to improve students’ critical thinking and can train themselves how to observe and measure their peer. Based on the evidence in real life, students ...

English has been taught as a foreign language in Indonesia. Discovering English Language Teaching issues in Indonesia is not over yet. The author just makes some of the issues which are according to the problems, challenge and the prospect. There are a number of problem occur such us, Students’ motivation which tell that students cannot understand very well about the aim of English itself and less desire to study. Then, curriculum problem, the English curriculum in Indonesia always changes. It is difficult to teachers to synchronize between the material and the environment to be taught, it also makes learners confuse as well. The third is difficulty environment, some people hard to learn English because the environment cannot support them to learn it well. In the other hand, in this globalization era, along with globalization, English has established itself as the world’s common language for academic and business (Tsou, 2015). English really influences everyone to learn, because Engli...

No doubt that English is a language that can bring everyone anywhere. With English capability someone is believed can go anywhere because English is world language. English is an enjoy language which becomes prestigious place as a global language (Khaled, 2014). Therefore, having English capability is a crucial role that can influence people nowadays, remembering English as an International language that the people must be understood about it. Motivation to learn English is increasing. In fact, learning English has been interesting to many students (Khaled, 2014). Learning English makes people having well English proficiency. In the other hand, students have opportunities to get a job and go abroad if they have well English capability. English is useful for maintaining life to survive in this global area because nowadays, every science and technology issues use English to deliver the information system. Based on Graham, English is not a subject that is taught in school as a subject...

source :  https://brazilgeo.wordpress.com English has become the international language which has been used in all countries. English is world language. The significant role of English is increased by the expanding circle of the English users in some countries where English is used as a foreign language such as China, Thailand, and Indonesia (Kachru, 2009, as cited in Suryanto, p.75, 2014). Meanwhile, there are some countries use English as a second language, such as Malaysia, India and Singapore. Therefore, English becomes an important thing that should be known and taught to the students. Of course this is something that becomes challenge for teachers, as Khan (2011) argues that teaching English as a second or foreign always a challenging task.  Considering the age of globalization are increasingly global, which makes the English language should be taught to children in Indonesia, the aim is to make them not to be obsolete to face the situation ahead that is full...

In education, curriculum is defined as a totality that students do in educational process. According to Kelly (1999), curriculum is negatively viewed as a “syllabus which may limit the planning of teachers to a consideration of the content or the body of knowledge they wish to transmit or a list of the subjects to be taught or both”. Curriculum refers specifically to a planned sequence of instruction. Therefore, many countries have national curriculum in   primary   and   secondary education . Every course has their own curriculum, including English subject. In Indonesia English teaching has been based on the curriculum designed by the central government throughout provision of curriculum policies (Sahiruddin, 2013). For ELT, Indonesia creates many curriculums which change during past fifty years. The English curriculum as a part of school based-curriculum (SBC), which is endorsed by the Department of National Education of the Republic Indonesia (Mattarima & Hamdan, ...

Indonesia is a country that has various local language, almost 700 local languages available in Indonesia. Most of Indonesian only know and familiar with two languages, Bahasa Indonesia and the local mother tongue. Because of having a wide variety of vernacular, mastering a new language is bothersome for Indonesians. Using of vernacular makes them accustom to using those language fluently (Dharma and Selvi, 2011). In the case of mother tongue, the learners learn it easily due to favorable environment. But learning a foreign language is quite challenging (Khan, 2011), the learners must have high exertion to learn English. Exertion itself cannot be abstained from obstacles for the learners. Thus, obstacles end up with having difficulties which cannot be avoided when learners start studying. One of the problem is Students' Motivation According to Wlodwoski, motivation is the process that can be instigate behavior, give the direction of behavior, continue to allow behavior and to ...