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Using Movie as Teaching Materials for Story

  Teaching EFL students are pretty challenging because as a foreign learner the differences in accent, background, and culture can make the teaching and learning progress a bit difficult. Teaching EFL with the old ways of teaching is not very efficient, especially with the learners. Teachers are trying to develop a new teaching material using Movie as the primary source to increase the student motivation in learning EFL. Even though these teaching materials are still not proven to be fully successful, evaluations will be conducted to improve this teaching material. Although using movie as teaching materials is still in doubt and questionable, movie can be the alternative solution in improving student’s learning experience in EFL. Content must be presented in such a way that the student is actively engaged in the learning process by relating new data to previous experiences, strengthening the connection with this new knowledge and stressing its organization in a learning process t...
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Using Story as Educational Instrument

  Story is a narrative that human usually use to tells their experience or a fiction to others. It is impossible to live without a story. Nowadays, stories are very popular in our society. such a film, novel, drama, etc. are one of the forms of a story. Stories also can in education sector, by providing enough reading comprehension, students can improve their knowledge about culture that presented in the stories. According to Book the Art of creative Thinking (Adair, 2007) Reading books might therefore help to stimulate and strengthen your creative thinking abilities. Other way stories also can make the students more active by retelling the stories to other students. Digital storytelling piques the interest of kids with a variety of learning styles, and it may also foster cooperative collaboration and boost students' sense of accomplishment (Reyes Torres, A. et al, 2012).                 In education Stor...
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Reviewing a short film “Lets raise a generation of equals!”

  Reviewing a short film “Gender Equality” From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPlEiWNUxU The Tittle is “Lets raise a generation of equals!”                 Gender equality is hot issues todays. A lot of pro contra have raised a lot recently. Pro side says that this gender equality will help woman to have equal rights, responsibilities, and opportunities like a man. While the other side says that gender equality makes people loss their identities. This is very hard to decide who is right and who is wrong. Every people can have their own opinion and other people can’t force their opinion to other people. Gender equality is not that all bad, but we don’t know where is the limit of the equality.                 This short movie or short video was uploaded in November 23, 2018 and already watched by 33 million of people aroun...
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Improving Students Skills in EFL with Music

  In the end of 2010, English has become the most widely speakers all around the world. It is because the non-native English speakers could surpass the number of native English speakers. This happen because English already becomes the common protocol for global human communication (Beasley & Chuang, 2008, p.1). With this happening right now, it will need a syllabus that help students in learning English as a Foreign Language. One of the methods that can help student in learning EFL is by Music, because it has positive influence on memory and better retention (Arjomad & Yazdanimoghadam, 2015, p.111). There are some suggestions in using popular music for EFL class, it divided into the following category listening, and speaking, writing and reading, grammars, collocations, and vocabulary to help student mastering EFL (Lieb, 2005, p. 91).                 In Listening and Speaking activates include true...
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The Reckoning by Within Temptation

       Within Temptation is a symphonic metal band from Netherlands. Founded by Vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerhold on April 1996. Their genre mostly classified as gothic metal and symphonic metal. Even though they mostly used symphonic or gothic metal as their genre, their album can influence outside of these genres.             Their first album is Enter in 1997. They are not very popular until 2001 when they releasing their singles “Ice Queen” in their second album Mother Earth. This Single reaching the no.2 on the Dutch charts. They also win Conamus Exportprijs, a Dutch music awards four years in a row, and fifth in 2016.             One of my favorite song from Within Temptation is The Reckoning from album RESIST. This Single released on September 14, 2018 featuring guest vocal from Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach, and released worl...
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The Importance of Mental Health

  Article by: Muhammad Gilang Yusifa/195110500111030 (Reviewer) 1.        Title                        : What is mental health? 2.        Author                   : Adam Felman (writer) and Reviewed by: Timothy J. Legg, Ph.D., CRNP 3.        Newspaper         : Website MedicalNewsToday https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/154543 4.        Date                       : April 13, 2020 5.        Subject                ...
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Increasing student’s knowledge of literature

We all know that literature is one of the most popular ways to deliver our emotions, feeling or thoughts. There are many literature products that can we use as a source of knowledge, entertainment, and arts. The kind of literature product that we can found easily around us like, music, poem, poetry, novel, and drama is the most favourable entertainment nowadays. Literature is not only for entertainment purpose only, it also can help students to study, especially about morale and history. Because the way we pass this knowledge is by oral, or by books. By learning literature, it can help students to gain motivation, understand better about history and morale, and the benefits of learning literature.                 The reason of why we learn this literature is because literacy texts are motivating. Motivation is a key factor in learning, and language teaching materials are among the factors that can affect motiva...
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