Kamis, 03 November 2011
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Elia Cokorudy
In learning any languages, we as learners need to have the four basic skills. They are listening, speaking, reading, and writing. If we try to remember when we were new baby born back then, do we still remember how did we acquire our mother language? It goes naturally, even we did not feel like we were learning it, but we have the four basic skills. Then, what if we learned another language? What should we do in order to have the four basic skills in another language too? Can technology help us in acquiring a language through the four basic skills? How about in writing? Will technology be helpful?
We all know that listening and speaking are connected, reading and writing are integrated. There are some approaches that are used to teach writing, however technology is also keeps improving day by day to help people. There are four major approaches: Form-focused Approach, Process-focused Approach, Content-based Approach, Reader/audience-dominated Approach.
Back then people really concerned about the grammar in writing, so they were really focusing on accuracy. However nowadays we can still find the same issue, due to that, form-focused approach is more applicable if we are really focusing on accuracy. As time passed by, other approaches are also being used until now. Different approaches could be used, it depends on what we are focusing on.
Selasa, 01 November 2011
If people ask me about my identity, I will surely answer them by introducing myself. However my opinion about identity is gradually changed since I learn about it better in humanistic subject. Identity is more about ourselves, which make people around us, could identify us. It is more into the core of us. For example, when people asked my friends, “Which one is Elia?” among my friends in my college, probably they would answer: “The Chinese student with long straight hair.” Does it mean that it is my identity? I am also confused. I feel that I am lost in my own identity.
In my opinion, identity is more like a puzzle of us. If we really want to know our identity, then we need to put all different pieces of the puzzle altogether, so it will be the most beautiful picture that really describes us. Being a Chinese-Indonesian is a part of my identity. Being a Christian is also another piece of my identity puzzle, not only that but also our characteristics and other physical appearance could be the pieces of our identity too. If so, it means that we have to face millions of different identities in this world. How would we handle it?
Being tolerant, understanding, and open-minded will always help us in facing different identities around us. There was a saying, “What makes you different, makes you beautiful.” It is just like in my previous writing, so why do not we apply those attitudes from now on? It will make the world even larger than before.
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