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Talking about manias, we start with Beatlemania. There are sports mania and religious mania. Manias can be good.   Manias can be alarming.   Or manias can be deadly. The world has a new mania, such as Chinese students practice their English,   by screaming, they use a mania for learning English. There are Two billion of people are trying to learn English in this worldwide . In Latin America,   in India,   in Southeast Asia,   and most of all, in Chin a. China will become the world's largest English-speaking country this year . Why English?   In a single word: opportunity.   Learning english we can get o pportunity for a better life, a job,   to be able to pay for school, or put better food on the table. Imagine the students in China taking a giant test for three full days.   They studies 12 hours a day   for three years to prepare Twenty-five percent of her grade is based on English.   It's called the gaokao, and 80 ...

Assalamualaikum .. temans. How is your fasting? Is it smooth? .well, in this time i am going to talk about my partner in crime. Huhu .. no, i mean is my sisters. As the first child I have two sisters, my first sister is 18 years old, her name is Firdalisma and her nickname is Pipi and my second sister is 13 years old, her name is Rizki Melinda and her nickname is Linda. But I have many nicknames for both of them. My first sister Pipi, I often call the "bang Pir" or "Firdaus", Somehow the call was created, probably because the three of us were women haha, while my second sister, Linda I often call as "cik Elin, or" L ", a funny nickname I think, but they did not accept the calls I made to them so they replied to make me a nickname too "Ms.K", for me the call is very strange. I think their creativity in making a nickname for me very weird, they said Ms. K is stands for my nickname. Ms. It is because I am studying in English and prospec...

2.3. Prospect The prospect for learning English in Indonesia is to improve the quality of foreign language for all students in Indonesia, can master English well and use the language as a communication tool. Another expectation is that students can take advantage of the foreign language skills to work both in the country and abroad. expected that students who are already proficient in the wind at a later date can be the news anchor, turism guide or being a english teacher, so that they knowledge can useful for themselves and also for the environment. 2.3.1. News anchor             If students can master English well, later on they can become news anchor, reporter who works in front of the screen or become a broadcaster who use English as a tool. 2.3.2. Turism guide, Students who already have skills in the English language can also distribute his or her ability to be a guide turism. they can be turism guide domestically ...

2.1.1.       lack of motivation Oxford and Nyikos (1989) found that motivation proved to have the most powerful influence on the use of learning strategies. Highly motivated students tended to use more strategies from formal rule-related practice strategies, functional practice strategies, general study strategies, and conversational strategies. Kamarul Sukri et. al. (2009) in their study proved that language learners with higher motivation level possess a richer repertoire of strategies and employ strategies more frequently than less motivated language learners. Motivation is one of the most important factors in language learning and is the key determinant of frequency and type of strategy. So, motivation affects how hard learners are willing to work on a language activity, and how much they will persevere when they are challenged. The motivation and learning strategies have a major role in language learning process in which they can influence the outcome ...

2. Discussion Studies about teaching English in Indonesia (Hamied, 2001; Lengkenawati, 2005; Luciana, 2006) reveal that it is considered to be failing to develop learners’ competence due to factors such as teachers’ insufficient command of English, poor teaching and learning facilities, and inadequate learning resources (Hamied, 2001; Lengkenawati, 2005). Another important factor that contributes to unsuccessful English language teaching is teacher education programs that are not well designed to produce the desired outcomes among EFL teacher graduates (Luciana, 2006). Yuwono (2005) emphasised that English teaching in Indonesian schools cannot operate successfully when there is an absence of suitably qualified teachers. Due to teacher shortages, some schools in rural areas employ English teachers who do not have English language teacher credentials. These teachers do not have adequate knowledge and skills to teach English to students, which results in less than optimum performance f...

English Language Teaching In Indonesia : Problems, Challanges, Prospects Introduction English has become regarded as a global language whose special role is recognized in every country (Crystal, 2003). It is a tool of communication among countries as they have engaged with the rapid growth of the world, particularly in political and economic development. This significant growing of English, according to Crystal (2003).  In terms of the number of people speaking English, Pennycook (1994, p. 7-8) asserted “the rough calculation regarding the number of speakers of English worldwide between 700 million and one billion covering native speakers of English, speakers of English as a second (or intranational) language, and speakers of English as a foreign (or international) language”, whereas Crystal (2003, p. 61) estimated “between 1.1 billion and 1.8 billion, with 320 million to 380 million who are native speakers of the language. Graddol (2006) predicted the total number of En...

MEDIA : MAKET Maket aquarium  The small piece of paper (the instruction) Maket aquarium  Magic card Teacher will divide the students into several group, then one of the member of the group have to come in front of the class and open the magic card randomly later on the student take small piece of paper inside the envilope in the magic card. Thereafter, the student have to follow the instruction written on the paper whether to describe, report, persuade, or luck card. If the student get the lucky card she/he could try again to open the magic card or she/he can choose whether want to describe, report or  persuade. Then, if the student successful do the instruction then they group will get the score. All members of the group will take turns forward. The teacher also can change the instructions of the piece of paper to another instructions. Instructions from the card can be changed according to the learning materials. (senior higt school grade 1,2,or 3 ...