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How to learn from mistakes by : Diana Launfenberg

Diana is a long time teacher. She begins speak by talking about her grandmother. Her grandma go to school to get information because there is where the information lived. It was in the book and in the teacher’s head. So she needed to go there to get the information. Diana’s father also go to school to get information from teacher. That’s how people learned. Information was being transfered from teacher to students and used in the world. However, when Diana was a kid, she has a lot of encyclopedias in her house, so she didn’t have to go to library to get information.  When Diana started teaching, she went to Kansas where internet was as an educational tool, but she used authentic experience that allowed her students to learn from themselves. She didn’t tell them any ways to do it. Then her students produced something. From Kansas she moved to Arizona to teach middle school students. She interest about eclectic group of kids to work with in a truly public school.  Th...
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Formative Assessment as a Component of the Future English Teacher Training Marina Viktorovna Klimenko & Larisa Arkadyevna Sleptsova International Education Studies; Vol. 8, No. 8; 2015 ISSN 1913-9020 E-ISSN 1913-9039 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v8n8p157  The article deals with the problem of the initial stage of the future English teacher training and forming basic professional teaching skills by means of the implementation of formative assessment methods into the process of studying. However, in the modern paradigm of scientific knowledge the anthropocentric approach to the conversation focuses on understanding the relations of the language and thinking, that makes it a starting point of the student’s pedagogical process. The implementation of the pedagogical component into the process of future teachers’ training has been carried out by many  methodologists and educators (L. Shulm...

Don’t insist on English by : Patricia Ryan

Patricia is a teacher who has worked in the Gulf state for over 30 years. She has seen lots of changes. She talked about language loss and the globalization of English. A language dies every 14 days. At the same time, English is the undisputed global language. It has morphed from being a mutually beneficial practice to becoming  a massive international business. It has become a bandwagon for every English-speaking nation on earth. According to the latest World University Rankings, in the universities of UK  and US. So everybody wants to have an English education naturally. But who are not from native speaker have to pass a test to take English education naturally.  Parents always focus on English since their early age. They want to give their children the best chance in life. To do that, they need a western education. For instance, Patricia gave an example from her daughter who studied in England has the best grade in science and math class. She believes that wh...

Txting is killing language. JK!!!

John argues that texting is a miraculous thing, texting is not writing at all. Basically, if people think about langauge, it has existed for may be 150.000 years, at least 80.000 years, it arose as is speech. Writing is something that came along much later.  According to traditional estimates, if humanity had existed for 24 hours, then writing only came along at about 11.07 p.m. Speech came first before writing. Writing has certain advantages, it’s a conscious process. When people write, they can look backward and can do things with language that are much less likely if they’re just talking. Speech is much looser.  Texting is very loose in its structure. Capital letters or punctuation is not paid attention by people. But it structure is not important when people speak. So texting is fingered speech. People can write the way they speak/talk. He believes that phones can be that source to write like people speak. He uses ‘texting slank’ such as “LOL” generally think of ...

How to make stress your friend by : Kelly McGonigal

Kelly is a health psychologist. Her mission is to help people be happier and healthier. Kelly have been telling people if stress can make sick. It increase the risk of everything from the common cold to cardiovascular disease. Kelly told that people who experienced a lot of stress in the previous year had a 43 percent increased risk of dying. But that was only true for people who also believed that stress is harmful for your health. People who experienced a lot of stress but did not view stress as harmful were no more likely to die, yet researcher found that people died not from stress, but from the belief that stress is bad for us. If that statement is correct, so stress will be the largest cause of death, killing more people than skin cancer, HIV/AIDS and homicide. As a healt psycologist, Kelly want to make people better at stress. If we view stress in good way, our body believe us and our stress response become healthier. Stress also makes us social. By talking about oxyt...

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Title : Perpustakkan Ajaib Bibbi Bokken (Bibbi Bokken Magic Library) Author : Jostein Gaarder & Klaus Hagerup Translator : Ridwana Saleh Editor : Andityas Prabantoro Publisher : Mizan Pustaka  Edition I (New Edition): March 2011 Thickness : 282 pages Price : Rp 35.000  Few people know that the writer of Best Seller novel Sophie’s World (1995) Jostein Gaarder ever collaborated with Klaus Hagerup in writing teen fiction. Klaus Hagerup himself is one of Norway's leading writers whose works of many types of reading of children and adolescents. Perhaps one of the similarities in writing fiction for teenagers is what encouraged Gaarder and Hagerup to collaborate and create their new work entitled Bibbi Bokkens Magische Bibliothek (1993). Books that have never been published by English-speaking countries are now directly translated from German by Mizan into the Perpustakaan Ajaib Bibbi Bokken (Bibbi Boken Magic Library), (2011). This Gaarder & ...

Dialysis

Do you have a family ever advised by a doctor to take a dialysis procedure? Hearing his name alone can make hair goose bumps. Actually what is meant by dialysis or which in medical language is known as hemodialysis? Is the procedure safe? Few years ago, when I was in junior high school, my father did two times a surgical operation because he got problem with one of his kidney. Then after a years a doctor advised him to do hemodialysis. My father did hemodialysis about 5 years before he passed away in 2016. So now I want share you what is dialysis. How it work. What the effect after doing it, because when my father back home after every dialysis he got headache and sometime his body irritation (itch). I also ever see when the nurse treated it to my father. The size of it injection is not like usual injection, it is bigger than others, because in dialysis have special injection. Oke , here we go. What is dialysis for? The kidneys are a pair of organs about the size of a fis...