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Hello guys! How y'all doing these days? Welcome back to this blog and I'll share my short thoughts after reading an article about speaking skill. So the article that I picked was "Enhancing the development of speaking skills for non-native speakers of English" by Kamonpan Boonkit. In that article I found the abstract explained that Speaking skill is one of many skills that affect our communication in life, either it is as our mother language or even our second foreign language. And it is really crucial for me and other soon to be an English teacher to improve our speaking skill, why? However, we aim to teach them English. we shall speak in a right way. The needs of improving and answering some questions that shows up about the topic of "Speaking Skill" led Kamonpan to do a qualitative research design as an action study. And the research signify that confidence, creativity of topics, and speaking competence were the key aspects of improvement when spea...

Aloha! Welcome back to my blog.. In this opportunity  I make another resume about the article that I have read, it is more about speaking skill. I’ll cut off the small talk and let’s just get started! As a teacher, we are included as a public speaker. The general definition about public speaker is actually how you can share an idea in front of many audiences. And there are some scientifically-proven characteristics that we shall imitate as a public speaker. The first one is confidence, this means that confidence is one of  the important element for a public speaker. On the article, it shows that being nervous for speaking in public is normal, but however confidence is one the key to deliver our speech more smoothly. According to a study published by the University of Wolverhampton “A highly confident speaker is viewed as being more accurate, competent, credible, intelligent, knowledgeable, likeable, and believable than the less confident uncertain speaker.” Th...

Hello! This very-amateur-writer-wannabe is back with another book review.  This one I got the opportunity to read my friend's blog and make another resume of it, and the blog I chose is.... http://arin12321.blogspot.co.id/ Yay!!! Congratulation for your not-so-lucky chance to be chosen by me hahahaha. ????? Moving on, this post if going to be very thick because I'm going to summarize all the chapter in one post so here we go from the very beginning.. Oh and by the way the book is Classroom Communication and Diversity by Robert G. Powell and Dana L. Powell. Chapter 1: The Foundations of Classroom Communication and Diversity Human communication is ubiquitous. It exists everywhere and has profound impact on what unfolds in a communication setting. All that happens in the classroom is created and sustained through communication processes. Lesson plans, teaching methods, discipline strategies, explanations, and critiques of student work occur through the co...

So this video is my final work and explain more or less the stuff I have read from the book: Educational Psychology by Kelvin Seiferd. Apologize for the mistakes, but enjoy the least entertaining video I made. lol have a good day.

Motivation can be described as an associated energizing and directing effects. Somehow or other, teachers must persuade students to want to do what students have to do anyway. There are 6 major theories about motives and their sources, here they are: Motives as behavior Behaviorism focuses almost completely on what can be directly seen or heard about a person’s behavior, and has relatively few comments about what may lie behind (or “underneath” or “inside”) the behavior. When it comes to motivation, this perspective means minimizing or even ignoring the distinction between the inner drive or energy of students, and the outward behaviors that express the drive or energy. The most common version of the behavioral perspective on motivation is the theory of operant conditioning associated with B. F. Skinner (1938, 1957). Imagine, for example, that a student learns by operant conditioning to answer questions during class discussions: each time the student answers a questi...

A learning disability (or LD ) is a specific impairment of academic learning that interferes with a specific aspect of schoolwork and that reduces a student’s academic performance significantly. An LD shows itself as a major incompatibility between a student’s ability and some feature of achievement: the student may be delayed in reading, writing, listening, speaking, or doing mathematics, but not in all of these at once. A learning problem is not considered a learning disability if it stems from physical, sensory, or motor handicaps, or from generalized intellectual impairment (or mental retardation). It is also not an LD if the learning problem really reflects the challenges of learning English as a second language. Assisting students with learning disabilities There are various ways to assist students with learning disabilities, depending not only on the nature of the disability, of course, but also on the concepts or theory of learning guiding you. Behaviorism: ...

Hello folks. Oh well, it's been very quiet lately and I haven't really post anything in a week but here I am.. posting another summary from another chapter of the book. But enjoy it guys!  Student Diversity What is student diversity actually? Well there is evidence that every students are different in how they habitually think. These differences are more specific than learning styles or preferences, and psychologists sometimes call them cognitive styles, meaning typical ways of perceiving and remembering information, and typical ways of solving problems and making decisions (Zhang & Sternberg, 2006). These differences are more specific than learning styles or preferences, and psychologists sometimes call them cognitive styles, meaning typical ways of perceiving and remembering information, and typical ways of solving problems and making decisions (Zhang & Sternberg, 2006). Howard Gardner proposes that there are eight different forms of intelligence, ea...