Student Diary

Introduction Every students has their uniqueness in learning language and it based on their beliefs. According to Cabarog lu and Roberts (2000, p.388) they defined beliefs as “a set of conceptual representation which signify to its holder a reality or given state of affairs of sufficient validity, thruth or trust wothness to warrant reliance upon it as a guide to personal thought and action”. However, there is no complete agreement on meaning and definition of beliefs, although the definition of this concept enjoys popularity in language learning research. Horwitz (1987) defined beliefs about language learning as language learners’ preconceived ideas or nations on variety of issues related to second or foreign language learning. for instance, some of them used to study language by using audio and the rest used to learn by audio-visual. It depend on students’ need and as the teacher they should provide them the best media to make an attractive learning. Therefore, the learners’ tho...

1.    Introduction In this digital age of time, there are millions of people worldwide are smart-phone users. It have paved the way for everyone to easily and quickly connect with their family and friends inside and outside the country. This quick and easy way of communication has accelerated the demand for the latest electronic gadgets multiple purposes uses like voice calls, messaging, chatting, web browsing, multimedia, and translation ( Nalliveettil and Alenazi, 2016 ) . According to Suleiman (2011) those devices are small, autonomous and useful enough to accompany us anywhere and anytime in our life. However, the features of smart phone are not only used to communicate but also can be used for some form of learning. For instance, If they set English as the language in their phone, then it will help them unconsiously in increasing vocabularies. Hence, this media can be very helpful and useful for users in many different ways. Mobile language learning is defined as...

1.     Introduction English is the most important language to be learnt because the majority in the world use this language in almost every aspect of their life. Teaching English to Indonesians means teaching other language, because of foreign language Indonesians has many problems in learning this language. The problems that they face vary in TEFL (Teaching English as Foreign Language), including students motivation, teacher professionalism, and curriculum changes. In addition, English is also used as a language of international communication in globalization era and becomes one of the challenges for Indonesians to compete in it. The majority could compete in this era through English because it might help them in finding jobs. As Thakur (2013) claims that, T h e p e o p le w h o h a v e pr o f i c i e n c y in t h is la n g u a g e c ou ld a c c ess la r g e n u m b e r o f j o b s a n d career in m a n y n at i o n al a n d i n t e r n a t i on al ...

Teaching English as Foreing Language (TEFL) in the classroom is not as easy as we think. To attract students, teaching learning process must be interesting and as a teacher they have to provide the best quality of teaching m a teria l s that will be eng a ging, attracting , and u p- t o-date (Ismaili, 2013). Teachers took a big role in giving motivation to pupils, they try to find some ways of making their learners want to learn the target language (Gilakjani et al, 2012). One of ways that teacher can do in increasing pupils’ motivation is providing them an attracting and enjoying environment through medium in study English. In general, t h e r e a r e some types of media that the teachers can use to support teaching activities, there are a u d i o , v i s u a l , a n d a u d i o v i s u a l . In this paper, the writer only discuss the benifit of audiovisual media in teaching learning activity and how effective this media to be used in the classroom. W e b s t e r ’s ...