Langsung ke konten utama

the world's English mania



Jay Walker: the world’s English mania

Talking about mania, there are many manias such as Beatles mania- hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming. Manias can be good, alarming or deadly. The world has anew mania, mania for learning English such as in China, students practice English by screaming it. two billion people trying to learn English in worldwide. In china, learning English starting at third grade by law and it makes china as a largest english speaking country.

Why they learn English? In the simple word, it’s “opportunity” for a better life and job.
English mania good or bad?  is English a tsunami that washing away other languages? not likely. English is the world’s second language. our native language is our life but with English we can understand wider conversation; global conversation, global problems like climate change or poverty. The world other has universal languages such as mathemathic is the language of science. Now English is becoming the language of problem solving, because the world is pulling it. so English mania is a turning point. English represents hope for a better future that has common language to solve it common problems.

Komentar

Postingan populer dari blog ini

Don't insist on English!

Patricia Ryan: Don’t insist on English! The speaker talks about language loss and the globalization   of English. She tell a story about her friends who was teaching English for adult in Abu Dhabi, one day she took them to learning some nature vocabularies, but she ended up her class, because all named in arabics word for local plants. How the student get all knowledge about it? of course from their grandparents, they preserved it. but today languages are dying every 14 days. She recruited by British council to teach English in Kuwait, because the government wanted to modernize the country and empower the citizens through education. Today, she see the morphed of teaching english, from being a mutual benificial practice to becoming massive international business. The best educations are the university in U.K and U.S. naturally, everyrbody wants to have English education, but if we not native speaker we have to pass a test. Needing english in conducting research, also as...

School Profile

  Actually, this is my assignment in english curriculum development, we have to write school profile when we studied in (past time). So, I'm sorry if my writing is inappropriate with this present time.   School Profile    School:             MAN Meulaboh-I Address:           Drien Rampak, St. Sisingamangaraja, No. 1 Region:            Johan Pahlawan, Meualaboh, Aceh Barat NPSN:             10114232 NSM :              13111050001 Accreditation: A Telephone:        (0655) 7551730 Email:               manmeulaboh@gmail.com Profile MAN Meulaboh-I is an islamic school that ta...

Technology-Internet Media

TECHNOLOGY-INTERNET MEDIA WWW.MINDOMO.COM Santi Rahmadani (140203028) A.     Introduction The term instructional media has been defined in a variety of ways. In some cases, it refers to all aids that are used by the teacher and students. In other cases, it refers only to printed media. This definition is close to a broader definition such as that of Romiszowski (1981: 339) which includes not only electronic communications media, but also such devices as slides, photographs, teacher-made diagrams, charts, real objects and handouts that we use in the process of planned instruction. A key feature of effective teaching is the selection of instructional materials that meet the needs of students and fit the constraints of the teaching and learning environment. Instructional resources usually fall into one of two categories: student-centered and teacher-centered. In the student-centered model, instructional resources can be used for tutorials, problem solving, ...