The Role of Literature in ELT

Literature generally comes to identify a collection of texts. Most generally, a literature is equated with a collection of stories, poems, and plays that revolve around a particular topic. Literature has been generally used in English Language Teaching (ELT) classroom for the development of knowledge about language. In ELT, using literature has four advantages, to facilitate intelligence and sensibility training, to stimulate students’ creative and literary imagination, to improve students’ general cultural awareness, and to enhance the psycholinguistic aspect of language learning.

First advantage of literature in ELT is to facilitate intelligence and sensibility training. Through literature, students give the possibility to speak about science, even if they don’t work in this domain, or they can express their opinion about a political aspect, just because they have read something connected to that. Another opinion, Parkinson and Thomas (2000: 9-11)

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Appreciation Towards The Story “God Sees the Truth, But Waits” by Leo Tolstoy

In my view, this story is really amazing. Sad story actually. But it is great. You should read it. I also put the appreciation at the bottom. Enjoy...

Story:

In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own.

Aksionov was a handsome, fair-haired, curly-headed fellow, full of fun, and very fond of singing. When quite a young man he had been given to drink, and was riotous when he had had too much; but after he married he gave up drinking, except now and then.

One summer Aksionov was going to the Nizhny Fair, and as he bade good-bye to his family, his wife said to him, "Ivan Dmitrich, do not start to-day; I have had a bad dream about you."

Aksionov laughed, and said, "You are afraid that when I get to the fair I shall go on a spree."

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apapun namanya... firstly

Posting pake bahasa Indonesia dulu ah, refreshing,hhehe.. soalnya ga perlu repot2 mikirin vocab, grammar, struktur bahasa, yang penting nulis asal ajalah untuk sekarang,,hhihi…

Aku pengen berbagi pengalaman pertamaku sebagai seorang pendidik, kelak kan nantinya aku insyaAllah bakal jadi pendidik juga, pengennya jadi dosen, pengen banget, dosen Bahasa Inggris pastinya, buat yang baca, AMIN yaaa  biar Allah mengabulkan,, AMIN… :D

Hari ini, 17 Januari 2011, hari senin, aku pertama kalinya mengajar secara formal, soalnya kan biasanya

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Belisario Choir VS BEM

It’s like kind a rival, but actually it is not. Both of Belisario Choir and BEM are two organization that I’ve ever join. I say it “versus” because this organization is really different each other. The people inside are also different, from the way wearing a cloth, the styles, and the behavior. I am, me, myself, in this situation is placed in the middle, I am going to explain more about this.

The first is Belisario Choir. This is a choir in Sriwijaya University. The members of this can be from any faculty of Sriwijaya University, not only regular program (Indralaya campus) but also non regular program (Bukit campus). To become a member of Belisario Choir, it must do audition first. The audition is the process of selection including knowing the knowledge of music, voice, and musical not before become the members. In my period before I join Belisario Choir, there are about 200 students of Sriwijaya University have audition. Then, from the 200 students, only 40 students who become the members, others were failed. Thank God, I am in the 40 students who become member. I join this since 2008 until now.

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Reading Strategies Using Reading Efficiently by Reading Intelligently

Academic reading is not easy. Part of learning to use reading strategies is to try out new and different ways of reading. Good reading strategies help people to read in a very efficient way. Using them, people aim to get the maximum benefit from their reading with the minimum effort. In order to reach it, people should have this three different strategies, knowing what you want to know, using active reading, and reading whole subject documents.

            The first is knowing what you want to know. The first thing is to ask yourself: why are you reading the text? Are you reading with a purpose or just for pleasure? What do you want to now after reading? An easy way of doing this is to look at the introduction and the chapter headings. The introduction should let you know what it seeks to achieve. Chapter heading gives an overall view of the subject.

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Facebook

Facebook is a famous social networking which was founded by Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook was launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Nowadays, there are many active users in the world with more than 500 million in July 2010. This essay is talk about two advantages of facebook, allows users search for their new and old friend and can expand business.

First advantages is facebook allows users search for their new and old friends. Therefore, facebook can make people use to keep in touch with their new and old friends. For example, just click the name of people that want to search for, then they can connect each other easily. Being friend in facebook, people can send messages, walls, photos, and notes. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, and college.

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Appreciation Toward “One Day in Your Life” by Michael Jackson

Appreciation Toward “One Day in Your Life” by Michael Jackson

Lyrics:

One day in your life

You'll remember a place

Someone touching your face

You'll come back and you'll look around, you'll

One day in your life

You'll remember the love you found here

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