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proceeding, 2014

Raising the awareness of the existance of audience or readers to students might become one of the... more Raising the awareness of the existance of audience or readers to students might become one of the key words in keeping the students remain motivated during writing class. For a common writing activity in class is that teacher simply asks the students to write a text and let them expect nothing but good grade after the class. It is likely to direct the students to think that writing is just another course that they have to attend during school days. As a result, both teacher and student might feel frustrated during the teaching learning process since the class runs wearisomely due to its meaningless activity. For this reason, this paper features on how a student' writing bulletin helps liven up the writing instruction while at the same time give the students a meaningful task to do. By suggesting a bulletin to write, students excitedly think that their writings will be printed and read by others. It is for sure attract their attention as they might be nervous to know that they are going to publish their writing for public. Yet, this reason as well becomes the biggest motivation to write well and show up their writing ability. Choosing appropriate topic will be another help for teacher to draw the students' attention in completing the task. To conclude, the paper will present some underlying theories that support this idea and details of how the strategy works.

proceeding, 2014

Teaching literature or bringing literature into English class can be an interesting yet risky pla... more Teaching literature or bringing literature into English class can be an interesting yet risky plan to execute, as reading a short story can be boring and monotonous sometimes. Most likely, the main activity that the teacher and students have beside reading is answering the questions, discussing the unfamiliar words and/or the moral value/s only. Consequently, students might fail to enjoy the work because they are demanded to read a certain story which may possibly not their favorite theme. For this, a creative writing activity can be taken into consideration to use in class. Letting the students express their mind after reading the story by asking them rewrite the story with their own version could maintain students' interest as well as facilitate their writing skill. This paper attempts to highlight the successful integration of creative writing task into literature class and how it helps teacher maintain the students' attention during the class. That students' creativity is being challenged in modifying the story which accordingly exploits their vocabulary richness to produce the new version of their own is the outcome that the students can get for carrying out this activity. Besides, it also shows how this simple idea can considerably improve the atmosphere of the class with its effortless procedures. In brief, it is a two in one solution which is quite productive and fun to be applied in literature/English class. The paper will be devided into sub topics deal with the background, the related review of literatures, the procedures of the activity and the expected results.

to be able to assess the instruction and work collaborately with colleagues in order to create a ... more to be able to assess the instruction and work collaborately with colleagues in order to create a more effective teaching learning process are some of the purposes in conducting lesson study. Besides, lesson study allows teacher to actively engage to do a research which is another task that teachers must be able to do to develop their professionalism as well as to share with their community. However, with piles of administration work paper that teachers have to finish not to mention the teaching hours they have, doing a lesson study seems very challenging to be done. Further, the long procedure that requires teammates to plan, do and see the processes tends to make lesson study even harder to conduct. This paper will highlight the challenges that the teachers face while trying to work collaborately with teaching practice students in carrying out lesson study in two different junior high schools.

Studies on peer review show that this method gives positive feedback on learners' writing perform... more Studies on peer review show that this method gives positive feedback on learners' writing performance. Through peer review, learners work collaboratively with their classmates in giving comment to each other's work which leads it as a self tool revision.

Writing is an activity that is considered difficult for both native and non native speakers, ther... more Writing is an activity that is considered difficult for both native and non native speakers, therefore it is important for the teacher to provide a meaningful activity that will help students practice their writing skill more easily. Collaborative writing is one of the activities in writing process that is used to support students in order to get accustomed to peer reviewing their friends' work as well as to learn from one another within the group. These are useful activities for students since during the writing process they tend to ask many things to the instructor which makes them to be less independent and insecure writers. By using Wikipedia which is an open encylopedia that is written collaborately by many writers, writing instruction can be done more interestingly and create a dynamic collaboration among students since they have to work in a group to write a certain topic based on their own choice. This study shows how students become more confident in developing their ideas and shows a great teamwork among them when they decide what topic to write and the sub topics for each member. Although they work in group, each student is responsible with their own parts at first. Since the assignment gives more freedom to all students in creating their Wikipedia, they become more creative in expressing their ideas with the help of all members in the group. This paper also presents how this collaborative assignment is conducted in order to maximize the students' writing improvement. To conclude, this activity may give a writing instructor an alternative task that is useful for students and teacher as well.

Character building is believed to be most effective in early ages. Building good characters in ki... more Character building is believed to be most effective in early ages. Building good characters in kindergarten years is thus a good way to start. This paper attempts to integrate character building content with English teaching in kindergarten under one theme, "The Environment". It explores the use of songs, games, stories, and other activities as ways of building young learners' character through routines and habit formation. It does so not only by telling them what is right and wrong but also by providing them the environment to feel and do it. It begins with a close look at the related documents including curriculum, syllabus and early childhood education standard. It continues with exploration of some ways to integrate the characters with English teaching as well as development and selection of instructional materials and strategies. It concludes with a presentation of a suggested step by step practical application of the developed materials in kindergarten classrooms, including the teachers' and children's roles.

As the awareness of second/foreign language need is getting bigger from time to time, parents sta... more As the awareness of second/foreign language need is getting bigger from time to time, parents start thinking of giving their children early lesson of second/foreign language. For that, some considerations are needed to be taken into some account by parents. The first is the starting point of when the teaching should begin. It mostly deals with the view of critical period hypothesis which some experts consider as the perfect time to introduce second/foreign language to children. The second is the factor affecting the second/foreign language teaching. Since teaching for children is completely different from teaching for adults, parents need to know what factors that could inhibit and motivate the learning. And the last is the language to teach, parents need to consult with the situation they face in order to know which language is mostly appropriate to choose for their children to learn.

proceeding, 2014

Raising the awareness of the existance of audience or readers to students might become one of the... more Raising the awareness of the existance of audience or readers to students might become one of the key words in keeping the students remain motivated during writing class. For a common writing activity in class is that teacher simply asks the students to write a text and let them expect nothing but good grade after the class. It is likely to direct the students to think that writing is just another course that they have to attend during school days. As a result, both teacher and student might feel frustrated during the teaching learning process since the class runs wearisomely due to its meaningless activity. For this reason, this paper features on how a student' writing bulletin helps liven up the writing instruction while at the same time give the students a meaningful task to do. By suggesting a bulletin to write, students excitedly think that their writings will be printed and read by others. It is for sure attract their attention as they might be nervous to know that they are going to publish their writing for public. Yet, this reason as well becomes the biggest motivation to write well and show up their writing ability. Choosing appropriate topic will be another help for teacher to draw the students' attention in completing the task. To conclude, the paper will present some underlying theories that support this idea and details of how the strategy works.

proceeding, 2014

Teaching literature or bringing literature into English class can be an interesting yet risky pla... more Teaching literature or bringing literature into English class can be an interesting yet risky plan to execute, as reading a short story can be boring and monotonous sometimes. Most likely, the main activity that the teacher and students have beside reading is answering the questions, discussing the unfamiliar words and/or the moral value/s only. Consequently, students might fail to enjoy the work because they are demanded to read a certain story which may possibly not their favorite theme. For this, a creative writing activity can be taken into consideration to use in class. Letting the students express their mind after reading the story by asking them rewrite the story with their own version could maintain students' interest as well as facilitate their writing skill. This paper attempts to highlight the successful integration of creative writing task into literature class and how it helps teacher maintain the students' attention during the class. That students' creativity is being challenged in modifying the story which accordingly exploits their vocabulary richness to produce the new version of their own is the outcome that the students can get for carrying out this activity. Besides, it also shows how this simple idea can considerably improve the atmosphere of the class with its effortless procedures. In brief, it is a two in one solution which is quite productive and fun to be applied in literature/English class. The paper will be devided into sub topics deal with the background, the related review of literatures, the procedures of the activity and the expected results.

to be able to assess the instruction and work collaborately with colleagues in order to create a ... more to be able to assess the instruction and work collaborately with colleagues in order to create a more effective teaching learning process are some of the purposes in conducting lesson study. Besides, lesson study allows teacher to actively engage to do a research which is another task that teachers must be able to do to develop their professionalism as well as to share with their community. However, with piles of administration work paper that teachers have to finish not to mention the teaching hours they have, doing a lesson study seems very challenging to be done. Further, the long procedure that requires teammates to plan, do and see the processes tends to make lesson study even harder to conduct. This paper will highlight the challenges that the teachers face while trying to work collaborately with teaching practice students in carrying out lesson study in two different junior high schools.

Studies on peer review show that this method gives positive feedback on learners' writing perform... more Studies on peer review show that this method gives positive feedback on learners' writing performance. Through peer review, learners work collaboratively with their classmates in giving comment to each other's work which leads it as a self tool revision.

Writing is an activity that is considered difficult for both native and non native speakers, ther... more Writing is an activity that is considered difficult for both native and non native speakers, therefore it is important for the teacher to provide a meaningful activity that will help students practice their writing skill more easily. Collaborative writing is one of the activities in writing process that is used to support students in order to get accustomed to peer reviewing their friends' work as well as to learn from one another within the group. These are useful activities for students since during the writing process they tend to ask many things to the instructor which makes them to be less independent and insecure writers. By using Wikipedia which is an open encylopedia that is written collaborately by many writers, writing instruction can be done more interestingly and create a dynamic collaboration among students since they have to work in a group to write a certain topic based on their own choice. This study shows how students become more confident in developing their ideas and shows a great teamwork among them when they decide what topic to write and the sub topics for each member. Although they work in group, each student is responsible with their own parts at first. Since the assignment gives more freedom to all students in creating their Wikipedia, they become more creative in expressing their ideas with the help of all members in the group. This paper also presents how this collaborative assignment is conducted in order to maximize the students' writing improvement. To conclude, this activity may give a writing instructor an alternative task that is useful for students and teacher as well.

Character building is believed to be most effective in early ages. Building good characters in ki... more Character building is believed to be most effective in early ages. Building good characters in kindergarten years is thus a good way to start. This paper attempts to integrate character building content with English teaching in kindergarten under one theme, "The Environment". It explores the use of songs, games, stories, and other activities as ways of building young learners' character through routines and habit formation. It does so not only by telling them what is right and wrong but also by providing them the environment to feel and do it. It begins with a close look at the related documents including curriculum, syllabus and early childhood education standard. It continues with exploration of some ways to integrate the characters with English teaching as well as development and selection of instructional materials and strategies. It concludes with a presentation of a suggested step by step practical application of the developed materials in kindergarten classrooms, including the teachers' and children's roles.

As the awareness of second/foreign language need is getting bigger from time to time, parents sta... more As the awareness of second/foreign language need is getting bigger from time to time, parents start thinking of giving their children early lesson of second/foreign language. For that, some considerations are needed to be taken into some account by parents. The first is the starting point of when the teaching should begin. It mostly deals with the view of critical period hypothesis which some experts consider as the perfect time to introduce second/foreign language to children. The second is the factor affecting the second/foreign language teaching. Since teaching for children is completely different from teaching for adults, parents need to know what factors that could inhibit and motivate the learning. And the last is the language to teach, parents need to consult with the situation they face in order to know which language is mostly appropriate to choose for their children to learn.