How to Improve My English

            There are many ways to be expert in English. We need to understand, what should we do to improve our English competence. I think it is important for us, as a candidate of a teacher. Moreover, that English competence is a basic skill so that we can compete in the world wide. In my class, Professor Marsigit told us about how to improve our English.            Before we go to the point of improving our English, we need to equalize our perception about English. We assume that English is life, so that we can use a life method to improve our English. We will walk on our process, so we need to be disciplined.            First thing that we can do to improve our English is make a continuous learning. English is life, and life is continues, so we have to learn it continuously. We can do many exercises, but we need to do it continuously. From that, what we’ve learned can be completely absorbed in ourselves.            Second thing that we can do is get various method of learning English. From that various method, our knowledge can be expanded. We can know many things about English, in many view point. Therefore, we will get many experiences that can we use for our future. To get that various method, we should be creative. We can look for it in the internet, in the library, and we can ask that from our teacher.            To be a professional, we have to establish our habit of study. Habit of study is an important thing for us, because a good habit can afford a good thing. To establish that habit of study is not easy, because sometimes we need to push ourselves, so we can walk on our good habit of study. That habit can develop our character, so we can be a professional learner at least. In case that we are adult, so we can do that habit of study as an adult people. We don’t need to be a lazy people, because that is not the character of an adult people.            To establish our habit of study, we should have a plan of study. We are required to build a plan that we can do and useful for us. We have to understand what we need. Moreover, we have to understand how do we study well. From that, we can put it down to our plan of study, that compatible with ourselves. When we have our plan of study, we can do it diligently. Practice is a good way to improve our ability of English. First practice that we can do is about writing in English. we should do this continuously, so we will have a habit of writing in English. We can write about our reflection, some stories, poetry, or maybe a novel. Second practice can we start from listening English. we can listen some music in English, English conversation, a movie that use English (Without Indonesian subtitle), or from video. Then, we can also reading many things about English. We can read many book that use English as its language, we can read newspaper in English, or we can also read many things in the internet with English. To express our English, we can talk directly in English. We can imitate someone speaks in the video. We can also write something first, and then we talk about it. It can improve our ability of speaking in English fluently.            In our old school, we usually learn English to understand some daily conversation. In case that we are a student of mathematics education, so that English can be used for us to explain about mathematic, education, etc. English can be implemented in our study, also implemented in our future, when we become a teacher.            There are some components for us in learn English. First component is motivation. Motivation appears inside us. Motivation can give us a spirit to do the best. Second component is facility. In the class, there are some facility that has given to us. For example, article in English, exercise, etc. It can help us to accept English deep down in ourselves. The third component is a facilitator. We have our facilitator, Professor Marsigit and Mr. Ilham. They are our lecturer, that teach us about English. The last component is resources. We need to have some resources when we learn English. We use it as our references to learn about English.            English is life, we need to make it sure that is acceptable for us as our assume. So, we should enjoy to learn it. I think, we need to enjoying life so we can walk on it well. Same as life, English can be walked on with enjoy. So enjoy it. Thank you.

            

English For Mathematic Education ; “Language is Life”

            In this second semester, I get a chance to learn English. My class has two lecturer to teach us about English. The first one is Professor Marsigit and the second one is Mr. Ilham. They’ve got their title in the different country each other. Professor Marsigit get his title in UK (United Kingdom). And Mr. Ilham get his title in Utrecht, Deutch. They’ve studied mathematic education, and they have a good basic in English. So they are in the criteria to teach us-their student-, because the English will be useful for learn mathematic in universal language.

            To learn English, we need a basic perception, so that we can start our study well. Professor Marsigit told us about his assumption, so we can learn English maximally. The first assumption is that the students have experiences in English. That experiences have been gotten since the elementary school or before it maybe. The second assumption is about responsibility. The students grow up and become an adult people. And adult people is the person that have a big responsibility to what they have done. So, the students have the responsibility as they’re an adult people. The third assumption is that every student has a same chance to learn English. Every student has their own ability to learn English, so that they have a same chance to develop their ability. The fourth assumption is the students learn actively in this study (English study). Being active can develop the student’s ability and knowledge.

            “Language is Life” that is the believe of Professor Marsigit about English as one of language in the world. He said that to learn something that is life, the best method is life approach. Something’s life show that it has process and activity. We need to do that process and more active so that we life. There are processes and activities in English as language such as variance word that appear in this era but doesn’t exist in the past. As a student, we have to be more active to learn English and follow the process. In the process, we’ll meet many kind of problem that can grow up our maturity and ability. So, the key factor from learning English is “process” and “activity”. Professor Marsigit told us that he will give us a point by our activity. From the activity, we know how far we learn English.

            Many kind of activities that can we do in the class. Professor Marsigit try to give the student facilities so the student can do their activity well. Professor Marsigit provide a blog that can be commented by student in English. And every week, will be a test / quiz. And also there a speaking test, for example, copying how some lecturer teach about mathematics from video.

            English is an universal language for mathematics in the world. We need to understand the universal language of mathematics so that we can learn across the world. I hope we can be a good generation for the younger learner. To learn English for mathematic’s education we need to be in the process. The process will bring us to understanding about our purpose. Same as life, life’s process will bring us to the meaning of life.

            I think that’s what can I write about English for Mathematic’s Education. I hope this article can be useful for everybody who read it. Thank you all.

Non Scholae sed Vitae Discimus