Defining Characteristics Of Language

1.         Language as human Criterion

Man is a social being, who always needs company in his life. It can hardly be imagined that he should life all alone by himself without anyone to accompany him. Only in old stories do we read about human beings who live in isolation like helmits, deep in the forests and cut off from all human relation. In reality they always live together in groups since they need each other’s help and company. There is indeed some truth in what an old greek scholar once said that man is a zoon politicon or political being, who has to live in a community.

How To Be A Good Teacher

HOW TO BE A GOOD TEACHER

      A.    Definition of a good teacher

 A good teacher knows her students on many levels. She learns all she can about their academic strengths and needs, but even more about their interests, fears, hopes, and worries. She helps her students learn these things about themselves. She helps her students to learn some of these things about each other, especially the strengths and hopes.

Macam- macam Tenses

Tenses terdiri dari 16 Tenses rumus beserta contohnya ada di sini..

A. Simple Present Tenses
Walaupun Present artinya sekarang tetapi hal ini jangan ditapsirkan bahwa tindakan tersebut dilakukan pada saat ini. Tenses ini digunakan untuk menyatakan sesuatu yang bersifat tetap, kebiasaan atau kebenaran yang hakiki. Karena sering menyangkut kejadian diwaktu lamapu, sekarang dan akan datang, Tenses ini paling sedikit mempunyai keterangan waktu tertentu.

Kalimat-kalimat bahasa inggris umumnya harus mempunyai subject(s) dan predicate(p). karena itu semua Tenses akan dipormulasi seperti itu.

Strategies for Developing Reading Skills

Strategies for Developing Reading Skills

Reading is a process of constructing meaning by interacting with text; as individuals read, they use their prior knowledge along with clues from the text to construct meaning.

A strategy is a plan selected deliberately by the reader to accomplish a particular goal or to complete a given task (Paris, Lipson, & Wixson, 1983; Paris, Wasik, & Turner, 1991).

Language instructors are often frustrated by the fact that students do not automatically transfer the strategies they use when reading in their native language to reading in a language they are learning. Instead, they seem to think reading means starting at the beginning and going word by word, stopping to look up every unknown vocabulary item, until they reach the end. When they do this, students are relying exclusively on their linguistic knowledge, a bottom-up strategy. One of the most important functions of the language instructor, then, is to help students move past this idea and use top-down strategies as they do in their native language.

Macam- macam Adverb dalam Bahasa Inggris

Adverbs in English

a.   Adverb of Time.

Merupakan kata keterangan yang menyatakan waktu terjadinya suatu pekerjaan, tindakan atau peristiwa tersebut. Contoh : afterwards (kemudian, sesuadah itu, lalu), already (sudah), before (lebih dahulu, sebelum), frequently (seringkali), now (sekarang), today (hari ini), soon (segera), immediately (segera), lately (akhir-akhir ini), yesterday (kemarin), dsb.