The Journey of Learning

Citation: Saitakham, Kiattichai. (2012). Enhancing English Listening Skills through Websites Praticing: A Study of Thai EFL University Students. 47(11), 50-53. Listening is regarded as one of important skills in learning language. However, the students still feel frustrated and helpless against listening (Yang, 2005). Pierce (1998) said that listening as in interactive, not passive process that the students needed to reply much effort and practice. The students should involve actively perceiving and constructing from stream of sound. The listeners also need to have sufficient knowledge of the language. Besides, listening is often applied together with the other skills of speaking, reading and writing. It helps the students to obtain good speaking habits as a result of the spoken English they have got and helps them to improve their pronunciation.  In this research, the writer used websites as a media for learning listening since the use of internet is familiar for th...

Citation: T. Zacharias, Nugrahenny. (2012). EFL Students' Understanding of Their Multilingual English Identities . Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, vol. 9(2), pp. 223-244 In globalization era, English has been a bridge to facilitate some people from different countries to communicate with each other since they have a different language. Even in Europe itself, they also have their local language such as Italian, German, Greek, Irish and so on. The existence of English changes them to become a multi-language user. However, Indonesia has a lot of local language in every region so that Indonesian decide to have another language, Bahasa Indonesia, to unite their communication way. Nowadays, most of Indonesia are not able to speak their local language since they live in the place with the other different ethnic groups gathered. Furthermore, some of them never use their local language since they were born. The community who they lived with does not support them t...

Arono. (2014). Improving Students Listening Skill through Interactive Multimedia in Indonesia. Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 5 (1), 63-69. source: http://combiboilersleeds.com/images/watching/watching-3.jpg In Indonesia, listening skill is not regarded as one of the important skill. The teacher usually only concern about reading for preparing university examination. The most used media in teaching listening is audio without a picture. It is seldom to find the variation media for teaching skill. However, the combination of audio and picture can generate interesting learning media. It helps the teacher increasing the student’s motivation to study and decreasing learning anxiety. In addition, it helps the teacher to connect the learning material with the real world. I’d like to review the journal that explores about the interactive multimedia implied for teaching listening.  The author means the interactive multimedia as the media which consist of text, anim...

Citation : Wesely, M. Pamela. (2012).  Cross-Cultural Understanding in Immersion Students: A Mixed Method Study . L2 Journal, 4(2), pp 189-213 Cross-cultural understanding has been a prominent issue for someone who intends to learning foreign language. It provides knowledge about certain culture or the other way to communicate with the members of the target culture besides using their language such as knowing their habit in daily life, what kind of celebrations they have, what they may eat or not, or even the body languages which have negative meaning. In United States, there are several regions which is lived by people from two different culture such as Spanish-American or French American. The cultural sensitivity is an noteworthy item to have a good communication between those cultures. Thus, there is an immersion which is concerned on acquiring language and cultural sensitivity. In this article, the writer try to find out whether the examination of L2 learning motivation of...

Citation: Picard, Michelle. (2016). Developing Independent Listening Skills for English as an Additional Language Students . International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Vol. 28 No. 1, pp. 52-65 source: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8x2sqiXgAAszKU.jpg English is not only learnt by the students of English literature or English language teaching department. The graduate students from the other departments require English language as the communication tools in laboratories, supervision meetings, at conference, at public lectures and even with research participants. To enter an academic English environment, English as an Additional Language (EAL) is prominent to support them in English-speaking areas. However, in this article, most of EAL students studying outside of North America or the United Kingdom merely familiar with Standard North American English (SAE) and Received pronunciation or BBC English (British Accents) in the popular media. The pre...

Citation : M.G Watt, Helen. (2012). Attribution and Motivation: A Cultural Study among Indonesian University Students . International Journal of Higher Education. Vol. I No. 02, pp  118-129. Students' motivation is an important issue in learning process. If the students are not quite motivated, the classroom situation probably will be boring and it affects the students' outcomes. There are some factors that influence the students' motivation besides teaching method or the students' interest about the lesson. The students' character is not only one cause which makes them lose their motivation, but the external factor such as environment also can be the reason. So, it is better for teacher to know what kind of things that might influence students' motivation. In this article, the writer investigated whether cultural factors and dimensions of students' attributions for their success and failure, motivational goals, self-efficacy, intelligence beliefs, and...

Citation : Akdeniz. (2014). Critical Reading in EFL in High School Context . International Journal of Language Akademi. Vol. II Issue. III, pp 133-156. When i was at senior high school, i feel that most of students in my class were interested in reading a text. They tended to read what is being asked by our teacher and merely understood it as what it means to say or without deep analysis. There were no comments or critics about the text, although they could tell what is going on the text. The classroom atmosphere was too passive and make all of us bored. So that, i try to find article about critical reading to wider my knowledge about how to be a critical reader or what is critical reading. This article comes from the research of senior high school students in Turkish. According to this article, critical reading is related to critical discourse analysis, critical literacy, and critical language awareness. Discourse is seen as reflecting and reinforcing social reality. Meanwhile. c...