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Hi, everyone! It’s been a while since the last post. Today I would like to give you an explanation about speaking skills and what we need to become a master in speaking skill. In English, as the commonly known, speaking is one of the four skills. To become fluent, we need some important skills to develop, they are fluency, vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. Fluency is about how confident and comfortable you are in speaking english. It is also about showing a clear point that you are trying to make. This skill means that listener can follow what you are saying and not get lost. Vocabulary. you can not speak if you have no words to explain and describe what is on your mind. This skill might take a lot of time to study because you must rich your vocabulary. Grammar. Grammar is really important especially if you are an educational person. The better your grammar is, the better your speaking will be. However, a good speaker does not have to use perfect grammar, it is okay to make...

Hello, fellas! In this great occasion, I want to compare two methods of teaching reading in elementary school. As we know, there are four skills that we must mastered in english. There are a lot of method that teachers nowadays use to provide kids in elementary school to love reading. We must understand that students have different learning styles, so it's our job to find the best method so that our students love reading. I will compare two methods that I got from scientific journal, that means this is not only my personal opinion. The first method is using HOPSCOTCH, the scientific jurnal used quantitative and qualitative as a method of the research. HOPSCOTCH is a method that using visual media. In indonesia, we may know hopscotch as "taplak." It combines playing and learning with pyhsical activities. There are 9 pads in HOPSCOTCH method. Each pad contains alphabet. When the students see the question in media in front of them, they have to type the answer by jumping o...

When you are attending college or university, you will be hearing plenty of term academic journal. In this article, you will find out what is exactly an academic journal. An academic or scholary journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. We also said academic journal as journal article. The terms both journal and article are actually the same. The primary purpose of academic journal is to distribute knowledge of the most recent or latest researches and breakthroughs, and not to make money. Most of the time, highly specific knowledge are provided for students and expert audience. Academic journal   contributors publish their works to establish or improve their professional ranking and reputation. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, and discussion of research. It is shorter than books because it’s written about a very specific topic. According to Henry Oldenbur...

Hello everyone! Good to write something in this blog again. In this great occasion, I would like explain the basic method of teaching english. My focus is on elementary school. So, basically there are four ability that learner must have when they want to be master in english. They are reading, writing, listening, and speaking. They are complete each other. For example, when we can read and cannot speak, we will not be able to present or give an opinion about what we read. Or when we can speak but we are lack at reading comprehension, we also will not be able to understand the material and finally cannot speak fluently. An english learner must be mastered these four elements. This is why when we majoring english, the course will be focus on these four elements. We will be taught first about basic reading, basic writing, basic listening, and basic speaking. Now I will be focus on one of them and it is reading. We can say that reading is the key to master english. There are lots of c...

At learning process, teacher has big part to shape students' quality and personality. I personally, will enjoy learning process when I like the teacher and feel comfort, that makes my learning process more effective. Unfortunately, there are so many unqualified teachers nowadays. Some of them are lack of moral, or worse they torture their students. You can see at the TV or magazine. We face a big crisis about teacher in our education. Now I'm attending Teacher Training and Education Faculty, to be a good teacher is what I'm learning at my college. Also I eventually have experiences at teaching because I regularly teach some children. I have a private tutoring for elementary student. So, I know a little bit about teaching. Students will be more effective in the learning process if they are taught by a professional teacher. So here are 5 characteristics that teacher should have if they want to be professional and amazing teachers. First, they must be patient...

A first name or also known as given name or forname is a part of a person's personal name. It identifies a person and becomes a part of the person itself. Sometimes, people first names represent their family or represent their birth of date. The interesting fact about people first name is not all of them like their first name. Some hate their own name. How this case could happen? Well, according to experts, they hate their name because some people mispronounce it or make fun of it. Some children even get depressed, they are bullied because of their name. A professor from bellevue university, Cleveland Kent Evens, who has studied given names for more than 20 years said that a great many people go through a period during their adolescence where they dislike their name as part of general adolescent concern with identity and what other people think of them. It means that name has big impact to our life. Names define us, it is the way for us to see ourselves and what other will...

        Talking about education, there are so many interesting facts from various country in this world. In this occasion, I would like to review education system from japan. Let's get started!         Education is a fundamental pillar of growth for human beings all around the world. Every country has their own methods and systems. Education system becomes a part and a hallmark of a country.         Japan is one of the most powering country in this world. It ranks second in the best education system after south korea.         Talking about education means related to curriculum and school. Curriculum in Japan not much different from Indonesia. It is six year elementary schools, three year junior high schools and three-year high schools, followed by a two or three year junior colleges or a four year colleges.         Public schools in Japan have classes five days a week, from Mon...