Introduction to ICT

again, we're going to talk more about the ICT itself through some more fun videos about Introduction to ICT, ICT in Education, and Use of ICT in Education source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxleoKBa8mQ

What Is ICT ?

ICT (information and communications technology - or technologies) is an umbrella term that includes any communication device or application, encompassing: radio, television, cellular phones, computer and network hardware and software, satellite systems and so on, as well as the various services and applications associated with them, such as videoconferencing and distance learning. ICTs are often spoken of in a particular context, such as ICTs in education, health care, or libraries.

source: http://searchcio.techtarget.com/definition/ICT-information-and-communications-technology-or-technologies

individual assignment of the thesis title

a few days ago. the lecturer asked us to find some thesis title.. and I would like to show you that the thesis title below are:

1.      Improving student’s speaking skill by chain trill technique

2.      An analysis on the students research background writing

3.      Using the herringbone technique to improve  the students’ reading skill

4.      Improving students’ ability through question answer debate game

5.      Teaching oral description by using cue card

6.      Teaching vocabularies by using context clues

7.      Improving students’ vocabularies by using riddle game

8.      The correlation between students’ reading strategies and their reading comprehension ability in reading academic text.

9.      Teaching reading comprehension of hortatory exposition by using mind mapping

10.  Students’ learning achievement with traditional assessment and portofolio assessment

11.  The use of Socratic seminar in teaching speaking on hortatory exposition text

12.  Improving the students’ writing ability in descriptive paragraph by using individual pictures

13.  Motivating students to speaking in English through songs

14.  An analysis on the students’ motivational aspects in speaking ability

15.  The use of peer checklist in teaching application letter writing

16.  Increasing students’ vocabulary by using bimodal subtitling  in short movie

17.  The correlation of students’ achievement and the parents motivation in learning English

18.  Improving students’ speaking skill by using narrative pictures

19.  An analysis on the students’ critical thinking  through giving comments on reading passage

20.  Improving students’ motivation in speaking by using agony column technique

Mr. Ikhsan explained about the development research

today date February 17th 2015, Mr. Ikhsan as our beloved lecturer explained to us about the development research starting from the material analysis and about the outline of the development research ( background, problem, purpose, hypotetical model (prototype) and significant of the research.
Overall, he told us that this design for the junior high school

Writing is easy~Pontianak

WRITING IS EASY

Writing is the process to acquire ideas (develop ideas)/ to state the ideas in written context. Eve this process is quite hard works to be mastered. It plays an important role in which speaking can not fulfill the communicative needs. Writing can be as easy as we thought by practicing it regularly because we can not directly to come to writing a text; It can go along process: writing can be easy as if we reads most according to an expert said that a good writer is a good reader. Writing skill should be acquired because it is an instrument to express through and feeling about what we have red, seen or experience. So, writing is easy exactly as if we love to practice it.

WRITING IS EASY WITH QUOTATION MARKS AND FACT

Writing is the most easy. Pain free and happy way to pass the time of all the arts. As I write this for example : I’m sitting comfortable in my rose garden and typing on my new computer. Each rose represents a story, so I’m never at a loss for what to type. I just look deep in to the heart of the rose, read its story and then write it down. I could be typing “ Kjfiy Joew. MvJiw” and enjoy it as much as typing words that actually make sense, because I simply relish the movements of my finger on the keys.

Through writing we express our feeling, our hope, dreams, and joys as well as fears, angers, and frustration ( Hughey,1983). In words that through writing we express our ideas’our plans, our recommendations, our values and our commitments. Thus written word are” The fragile bridges upon which our throught must travel”(Sesser and John-Steiner 359). Means; by writing, we can see how somebody’s thinking (the way they throught and felt).

PONTIANAK

Pontianak is an amazing city to visit if you are planning a travel to Kalimantan Barat. It is a big city that has another name” Khatulistiwa City” that lined by khatulistiwa arrow.

Pontianak is a clean and beautiful city”Pontianak Kote Bersinar” or in English said that the city with the hundred light.

If you want to come to Pontianak, here there are  so many tourists are:

-          Alun-alun Kapuas

-          Pontianak Museum(Museum West Borneo)

-          A. Yani Mega Mall

-          Matahari Mall

-          Gardenia

-          Jungkat Beach

Adv. Alun-Alun Kapuas

If you are looking for a place to be visited in Pontianak. You may come to Alun-Alun Kapuas. It is located in the centered of Pontianak City. It is a s trategic resort. You would come whenever you want visit, this place. It opens every day for domestic and foreign tourist.

The visitor can enjoy the scenery of Kapuas river and waterfront that really close to you may also enjoy the river by motor boat, we called it “TONGKANG”. To comfort yourself with the surround of Kapuas river, and also many beautiful lights on the trees like snow in the night.

In such kind of a festival, there are some culture expo, painting, bazaar; handicraft, food, toys, accessories, souvenir and fashion.

TECHNOLOGY EFFECT

Live is not easy. Day by day, there are so many technology engineering in advance communication. It may teach us to be individualism. Those tools are laptop, hp and other similar communication devices(gadgets). Moreover, recently, the technology companies create android program. Even it bring the advantages, I think there are some bad effect of this condition that my appear caused by those tools:

a) If we review it from health aspect, radiating power can cause some disease.

b) In social aspect, those teach us to be individual manner.

By radiating power that spread out from those devices(hp, laptop, and other devices) would bring impact to our health. It can cause cancer, dehydration and exhausted(eyes).

Besides, it teach us to be individual because the tools can reduce the socialization of human interaction directly. They prefer to keep in touch through phoning, facebooking, twittering, rather than speak/interact with direct conversation(face to face). People will stay at home most engage with their gadgets.

Title: Task Based Language Learning

Translation

Nunan(2007:15) mengatakan bahwa: tugas merupakan sumber pembelajaran yang terpadu”.

Nunan(2007:15) said that”the task is a source of that an integrated learning”

           Brown(2010:107) menggarisbawahi”dalam pembelajaran bahasa, tugas bisa menjadi bagian penting yang secara signifikan mempermudah pembelajar dalam menguasai target pembelajaran”

Brown(2010:107) Underlines in language learning, the task can be an important part that significantly facilitate the learners in masteryng the learning target.

           Richard(2011:10) menyebutkan: tugas tidak hanya merupakan sumber belajar tetapi juga medium untuk mengolaborasi pemahaman.

Richard(2011:10) state: the task are not only as learning but also medium for collabotion understanding. 

Dalam mempelajari bahasa khususnya mempelajari bahasa inggris, ada satu kegiatan yang tidak bisa dipungkiri kegiatan yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan dan mengukur kemampuan dan prestasi siswa yaitu tugas(pekerjaan siswa). Sebagaimana yang dipaparkan oleh Nunan (2007:15) mengatakan bahwa tugas merupakan sumber pembelajaran terpadu. Di sampng itu, Richard(2011:11) menyatakan bahwa tugas tidak hanya merupakan sumber belajar tetapi juga medium untuk mengolaborasi pemahaman.

Dalam pandangan penulis berdasarkan uraian di atas,tugas merupakan sebuah media untuk memudahkan siswa agar lebih berpengalaman dalam belajar dan juga sebagai metode untuk meningkatkan integrasi siswa dalam belajar agar lebih interaktif.

Sedangkan pembelajaran berdasarkan tugas adalah bagian terpenting yang secara signifikan mempermudah dalam menguasai target pembelajaran(Brown 2010:107).

Jadi, dengan adanya tugas dalam suatu pembelajaran, siswa menjadi sangat terbantu untuk memahami dan menguasai target dari suatu pembelajaran.       

In learning the language especially English, it could not avoid the activity in doing the work that can improve and measure the learners’ ability and achievement that called by “task”. In line with this Nunan said that task is the source of that language learning, and beside Richard ( 2011:11) state that” the task are not only as learning resources but also a media to collaborate learners’understanding.

In writer perspective based on the discusion above, the task is the media to make the learners be more experiencein learning and as a method for enhence their intgration in learning means the learners will be more interactive in learning.

While task based learning is the important part that significantly facilitate the learnersin masteryng the learners the learning targets.

So, by having the task in learning, the learners can be helped more in understanding the goal of language learning.   

Mastering English Vocabulary Requires Some Learning Strategies

In mastering the English vocabulary is the significant part to show the students’ knowledge of word meaning in a given passage. Knowing the vocabulary means that someone (learners) has already acquired the beginning part of the learning English. By understanding the word (vocabulary) is the first step to achieve reading comprehension. In line with this, Baker, Simons, and Kame’enui state” the relation between reading comprehension and vocabulary knowledge is strong and unequivocal. Means, to gain the reading comprehension, the students (learners) should mastering the vocabulary first. Of course there is a big correlation among those cases.

Indeed, by mastering the vocabulary, the learners can define the world and get brighter life.  According to Steven Stahl said” Teaching word meanings should be a way for students to define world, to move from dark to the light, to more fine-grained description of the colors that surround us”. By knowing the vocabulary, automatically, the students could understand and translate every single the new words.

Moreover, here there are four strategies in mastering the vocabulary (4 strategies), clearly stated by Instructional Dustbin, listed as follows:

1. Look them (vocabulary) up (find the meaning in the dictionaries)

Certainly dictionaries have their place, especially during writing, but looking up a word and copying a definition is not likely to result in vocabulary learning. In another words mean that using dictionaries is not really effective to presents the students’ understanding. Example: translating the words by using the standard dictionaries.

            2. Use them in a sentence

Writing sentences with new vocabulary after understanding of the word meaning is helpful. Example: Reading a text and paraphrase it according to the students’ understanding (to show the students’ understanding).

            3. Use context

                        Example: in common, word “interest” means being attractive by something, but in economy aspect, word “interest” means the debt that must be paid by customer of bank.

            4. Memorize definition

                        I think it is not really effective because there are thousands million words to be remembered.

Those are 4 strategies in mastering the vocabulary, but the most effective way to master them only has 2 of them (the strategies); 2. Use the vocabulary in sentences 3. Use context

Ad (2) Use the vocabulary in sentences

            An expert says that “a good writer is a good reader”. Means, if the students want to be a good writer, they should read a lot. But, firstly, the students should be a master of vocabulary because by writing a new vocabulary after understanding the word meaning is related to the students’ achievement on their reading comprehension. Example: in TOEFL, the reading comprehension is the biggest score than grammar and listening. In writing something, students can not directly to come to the writing the text. They should do the writing process as Grenville (2001:11) stated: getting ideas, choosing ideas, outlining, drafting, revising, and editing.

            Ad (3) Use Context

            Besides, understanding vocabulary can be mastered by use them in context. It helps the students broaden their deepest understanding. It is not just depend on one context, means the context would serve the students in higher level thinking to be understood well. The vocabulary would differ in a different context as common. Example: