Debating Bad Effects

Every student can learn, just not on the same day or the same way. It’s one of the quotations from George Evans. This quote shows that every student have their own strategy to learn something. They also take different interval of time to be able to master their learning. The strategy they used will determine they succeed in their learning. Learning strategy here means “specific actions, behavior, step, or technique used by students to enhance their own learning” (Scarcella & Oxford, 1992, p.63). Oxford (1990) has identified six mayor groups of language learning strategies, they are cognitive strategy, metacognitive strategy, memory- related strategy, compensatory strategy, affective strategy, and social strategy. In the following paragraphs, will be explained all of those strategies. 

All human need to express themselves in order to survive, living their live. As what have been stated by Laurie Halse Anderson, “When people don’t express themselves, they die one  piece at a time. “ it shows that expressing is very important. Expressions here means sharing their ideas or thought through communication. Communication can be in written form and spoken form. Since it’s for expressing something that come from them, writing will be so easy.

                Human can write easily when they are knowledgeable. They know many things that can be written in their writing. It can be from their experience that they really interested in being written. It can be about their ideas about something in the environment. It can also from their deep thinking about some problem that they have. The process of writing also can be helped by their knowledge about how to something in aproper way, including the use of language in writing. In addition, they will be easier in writing when they have get used in doing it. 

“Nothing happens by coincidence” said William S. Burroughs. It also supported by some experts that can beat Darwin theory that stated “this world exists by coincidence”. Everything happens for a reason, through some process, and has some purposes. This world is created through some processes and took times, in Al- Quran stated that this world is created in 6 days. So is in language mastery. Human can’t use language directly when they were born in this world. People acquire first language through some process, such as: babbling, one word stage, two words stage, telegraphic, and then the last is fluency and surely it takes several times to through all of the process. In line with that, mastering English as a foreign language also need some process and stages that takes some intervals of time.

When I was in my elementary school, I have learned English since I was in my third grade. At first, I could minimally understand the words and couldn’t use English in my communication yet. All things that I knew were Yes and No, this stage is called preproduction stage. Not long after that, I started to understand and utter word by word and this stage is called Early Production. When I was in my 4^th grade I started to develop more complex words and combined words with other words co I could communicate the basic thing I knew, this stage is called Speech Emergence. In this stage I’ve always said something ungrammatical and wrong. This stage happened in a very long period. And the forth stage is Intermediate Fluency, in this stage, a person can form a complete ideas and sentences with less grammatical error, in my point of view I’m still in this stage. And not yet reach the last stage of acquiring language, that is fluency. 

Title: The Importance of Good Role Model to Increase Quantity and Improve Quality Members of An Organization

Thesis Statement: Giving good role model can increase quantity and improve quality of members of an organization

An organization is a place for some people to learn many things, develop their talent, and socialize with other people. Some people can be interested in joining an organization because of many reasons. Some of them are because of the similarity between their hobby and the activities in the organization, because of the similarity between their talent and the talents that will be developed in the organization, and because of the similarity of their vision and purpose in their life with the vision and purpose of the organization. Besides of that, the quality of human resources or members of the organization can also be one of the factors that can make people get interested in joining an organization. And those good human resources will be called good role models. Besides of increasing the number of new members, those good role models can also improve the quality of members in the organization.

Title: Uniqueness of Living in An Apartment

Thesis Statement: Living in an apartment is unique

Life is not always easy. As the day goes by there are some uncomfortable situations development. One of them is technology development that makes someone being more individualistic. Laptop, tablet, cell phone, and any other kinds of computer technologies are the evidence of being more individualistic. Social communication starts to disappear from our interaction system. That problem may cause some changes on individual’s behavior in the society and also in family. 

Now we live in globalization era and technologies are really important to our life. That’s why there are so many kinds of technology that really close to our life now, such as TV, telephone, computer, internet, etc. All of them are not uncommon things anymore to be had by society nowadays. The most common thing between all of them is Television. Almost every person have their TV in their house, and some have it in their own bedroom. Because TV and personal life is really close, they must affect one another, for the example schedule for watching will impact other activities that will be doe by someone. And it won’t be impossible that TV will also give effect to the children behavior. In the following paragraph will be explained why TV can affect children behavior especially in violence and phornography. 

Indonesia merupakan  salah satu negara yang dilintasi oleh garis equator O⁰. Hal tersebut dapat dilihat dari letak Indonesia secara astronomis, yaitu terletak pada 6⁰LU- 11⁰LS dan 95⁰BT- 141⁰BT. Kota yang tepat dilintasi oleh garis 0⁰ ialah Kota Pontianak Kalimantan Barat. Untuk menandai hal tersebut maka dibangunlah Tugu Khatulistiwa di Jalan Khatulistiwa, Pontianak Utara. Dengan letak Tugu Khatulistiwa yang tepat berada di garis 0⁰, ada fenomena- fenomena alam yang unik yang terjadi di tugu ini. Seperti yang terjadi pada tanggal 21- 23 Maret 2014 ini diperkirakan akan terjadinya momen dimana bayangan tidak akan tampak selama beberapa detik karena matahari berada tepat di atas tugu khatulistiwa, yang dinamakan dengan berada pada titik kulminasi. Dalam setahun, matahari akan berada di titik kulminasi sebanyak dua kali, yaitu pada bulan Maret dan September. Dikabarkan juga bahwa akan terjadi momen dimana telur bisa berdiri tegak pada titik kulminasi ini.

Hal tersebut merupakan salah satu fenomena alam yang menandakan  bahwa seluruh tata surya ini merupakan ciptaan suatu Zat yang Maha Kuasa, bukan terjadi oleh evolusi maupun secara kebetulan. Waalahualam bishawwab...

Euforisme siswa untuk menjadi guru semakin meningkat. Hal tersebut dapat dilihat dengan meningkatnya jumlah pendaftar SBMPTN 2013. Tercatat sebanyak 69,4 % atau 407.000 dari 585.789 pendaftar yang memilih program studi di Lembaga Pendidikan Tenaga Kependidikan. Salah satu factor penyebab terjadinya peningkatan minat ini ialah karena adanya tunjangan sertifikasi guru yang dapat meningkatkan kesejahteraan para pendidik yang dulunya dipandang sebelah mata. Dengan semakin meningkatnya jumlah mahasiswa yang ingin menjadi guru, maka kompetisi yang terjadi juga semakin ketat. Ditambah lagi dengan adanya program Pendidikan Profesi Guru yang memungkinkan mahasiswa non keguruan untuk turut berkompetisi mendapatkan Sertifikat Izin Mengajar (SIM) sebagai guru. Hal yang dapat dilakukan oleh calon- calon guru untuk dapat berkompetisi di era globalisasi ini ialah dengan terus meningkatkan kemampuan dan kredibilitas mereka agar tidak tersisihkan. Salah satu nya dengan cara menghadiri seminar- seminar sehingga dapat menambah pengetahuan dan mengupgrade kemampuan diri.

Sebagai salah satu himpunan mahasiswa yang ada di Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan (FKIP) UNTAN, English Student Association (ESA) mengadakan Seminar Nasional dengan tema: “Menjadi Guru Professional” sebagai salah satu rangkaian agenda English Pintar 2014. Tema ini diambil dari judul buku karangan Prof. Suyanto, Ph.D,, Direktur Jenderal  (Dirjen) Pendidikan Dasar (Dikdas) Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (Kemdikbud) RI, dan di seminar ini beliau sendirilah yang akan menjadi pemateri. Seminar yang diadakan dari hasil kerja sama kerja sama antara PT. Erlangga dan ESA FKIP Untan ini bertujuan untuk mempersiapkan calon guru dan guru untuk menjadi guru professional yang dapat memenuhi kebutuhan pendidikan baik dimasa sekarang maupun masa mendatang. Seminar ini akan dilaksanakan pada hari Sabtu, 22 Maret 2014 di Restoran Mutiara Jalan Gajah Mada. Hanya dengan membayar uang registrasi sebanyak Rp 150.000,00, peserta akan mendapatkan satu buah buku “Menjadi Guru Professional’ karangan Prof. Suyanto, seminar kit, sertifikat, dan juga snack. Spesial untuk mahasiswa yang membawa KTM saat mendaftar akan diberikan harga khusus.

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