Respond on Mr. Chaedar's Article

INDONESIA’s vs. ENGLAND’s PRIMARY SCHOOL

                When the first time I read an article which the title was about “Mengintip SD di Inggris”, I thought it would tell us about the system of teaching-learning process in England’s elementary school. Then I read the first paragraph, it made me surprised because Mr. Chaedar gave an example about the situation of Indonesia’s education especially that happened to his child. Then my thought turned out, I was sure this article would tell us about the differences of system education between England’s elementary school and Indonesia’s elementary school.

                What made me interested was the example in the first paragraph because I experienced it too when I was in the elementary school. Almost everyday, I brought ± 5-8 books. I remembered my mother ever said this “Berat berat teuing bawa buku teh, ntar kecil kecil bongkok siah,” but what could I do? Every books that I brought was important, consisted of exercise book, hand book, note book, and “lks”.

                I thought it was good if we adopted the system of teaching-learning process in England’s elementary school. I was sure that it was fun, the school provided us with the availability of many books in the classroom, many activities that you could do in the school, and the simple curriculum that was not to weigh against the student. The result had proved, this system would make the children enjoyed reading and writing. The children could get many experiences and knowledge from the activity that they did everyday and from the environment around them, because they didn’t rivet on the handbook. The most important results from this system were this system could create an active, energetic, and creative child.

                But, it was difficult. Why? There were some reason. The first one, each teacher should be able to handle one of the abilities or one of the courses that he/she liked the most or he/she was good at. When the fact was the teacher in our country tended to teach everything in every class. For an example, when I was a student in elementary school, one of my teachers could teach mathematics, science, and social study in 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th grade. It was good, but same as what Mr. Chaedar said that each teacher must have one over plus ability in one course. Second, there were just a few teachers in our country that could be active, innovative, communicative, efficient, and fun in their teaching-learning process. Third, it was about the realization of we needn’t had to buy books because every school in every class had supplied it. The fact was our government had the program that we called as “BOS” but it was just enough to cover the school cost, not for the cost of availability of books. And the last, it was the awareness of each student about the importance of that study itself.

                We should try, our country already had the elementary school that we called as SDPN (Sekolah Dasar Percobaan Negeri), why didn’t we try to adopt the system of teaching-learning process in England’s elementary school through those SDPN? If that fell on feet, the system of teaching-learning process in England’s elementary school could be adopted to the other schools. Was it a good chance to make our system of teaching-learning process finer than before? I thought it was the one of many ways to make a good quality of human resources for the future.

Report on Introduction Page

INTRODUCTION PAGE

                This chapter provided the background of the study. It drew the attention to the problem that the author concerned about through his research. This chapter also provided the statements of problems, the aims of the study, the scope of the study, the significance of the study, research methods, data collection, data analysis, and organization of the study.

                The research was about the investigation of structure of the jokes, the types of humorous interaction, and social function of the humor in Mukhadkly Acho’s Stand Up comedy performance. In the chapter background of the study, the author described about what humor was by some expert. He gave some examples and definitions that related through his research. And in the last paragraph, he explained the reason why he did a research on this area.

                In the second chapter that was a statement of the problems, the author gave a list of question. Usually the author opened this chapter by “From the preceding explanation, this research is to answer these following questions...” and then followed by a list of the question. So in this chapter, the author described the function of the research was to find the answer of some problem that he concerned about  and usually it connected with the result and conclusion of his research.

                Same as the second chapter, aims of study consisted of a list. The list in this chapter was about to explain the purposes and the aims of his research. Usually the list on this chapter had a relation with the list on the statements of the problems.

                The fourth chapter, significance of the study. In this chapter, the author explained about the function of his research. For an example, he said that “Through this research people can possibly understand about the general structure of a joke, the most common type of humorous interaction used, and also the social functions of humor in Stand Up comedy performances.”

                The fifth chapter, scope of the study. In this chapter, the author explained on what area that his research concerned about and from where the data that he analyzed. He said that his research focused only on the investigation of socio-pragmatics analysis and he took the data from the transcribed text on the videos of Muhadkly’s Stand Up comedy performance.

                The sixth chapter, research method. In this chapter, the author attached 2-subchapter, those were data collection and data analysis. In this chapter, the author described what method that he used on his research, how the data were collected, and the step on how he analyzed the data.

                The last chapter, organization of the study. In this chapter the author explained what things that would be presented in his research paper. Such as in this research paper, the research was organized in 5 chapter, Chapter I (Introduction) Chapter II (Theoretical Foundation) Chapter III (Research Method) Chapter IV (Findings and Discussions) and Chapter V (Conclusion and Suggestion). We also should give some visualization on what would be explained in those chapter. For example, “Chapter V is Conclusion and Suggestion, it reports the conclusion of the study and suggestion of the study.”

Report on Abstract Page

1.       ABSTRACT

No	Component	Content
1.	Background	N/A
2.	Purpose	The purposes of this paper were to explore grammatical error & orthographic style, to investigate the factors behind the most common error & style
3.	Methodology	The author collected the data by computer mediated communication (CMC), social network sites ( SNSs), the concept of error analysis, investigated English Facebook status as data, used qualitative approach
4.	Results	The result of this paper showed types of grammatical error, types of orthographic style, factors behind the error & style
5.	Conclusion	The author concluded that the problem included technical constraints, communicative constraints and linguistic constraints
6.	Suggestion	N/A

2.       What did you learn from

-TITLE

In the title page there existed the title and the subtitle of the paper on the top of the page followed by logo, author’s name and nim, department and year.

-APPROVAL PAGE

In the approval page there were a signature from supervisor co-supervisor and head of department, it meant that the paper was accepted by the department.

-STATEMENT

In the statement page there was the statement from the author that he/she didn’t copy or didn’t do any plagiarism on his/her paper (he/she worked by his/her own hand)

-PREFACE

In the preface page the author said his/her gratitude through the God, his/her purpose why he/she wrote the paper, his/her hope about the result of the paper.

-ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

In the acknowledgement paper the author gave his/her thanks to anyone who contributed/involved on his/her paper such as family, friends, employee in the department, etc.

Loka Karya

I attended two session about "loka karya". The first speaker was Pak Riesky. He gave us a presentation about student teacher who got difficulties about learning teaching methodology. The second speaker was Pak Handi. He gave us a presentation about the use of L1 in EFL classroom. Pak Riesky gave a clear presentation but he explained it fastly, he showed us the graph and the table about the data that he got from questioner. Pak Handi gave a clear presentation with the attractive way, he persuaded the audience to involve to his presentation, such he always asked to the audience in his presentation. Both of them have a different ways to present their presentation, but they presented it clearly and reached the goal. After that, i got some important information from their presentation.

Summary and Paraphrase

Summary is the short statement giving only the most important information of the text,it can be in 1paper or ¼ of the total page, must be in present tense while Paraphrase is the make of statement from the author’s idea by your own words.

Easy step in summary:

1.divide and conquer: skim and divide into section.

2.read: read straight through, get a feel for the author’s tone, style and main idea.

3.re-read: underline topic sentences and key facts.

4.one sentence at a time: write down the main idea of each section include in your sentences are the key point.

5.thesis statement: you should be able to create thesis sentence.

6.ready to write: you can use the thesis statement as the introductory sentence of your summary, don’t forget to write down the author and the title, should be equal in length to the original text cite, don’t put your own opinion.

7.check for accuracy: re-read your summary and make certain that you have accurately represented the Author’s ideas and key points.

8.revise: revise it for style, grammar and punctuation.


Easy step in paraphrase:

1.use the synonym.
2. use the different form of word.
3.change the conflectors.
4.change active to passive, vice versa.
5.negative to affirmative, vice versa.
6.avoid giving your own language.
7.avoid changing vocabulary item.
8.citey your language.
9.in common information, you needn't have to cite.
10.beware, some synonym have a different meaning.