ARTICLE FOR ADVANCED WRITING COURSE (Lectured by: PUSPITA DEVI, M.Pd)

UNDERSTANDING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN A LITERARY WORK THROUGH LITERATURE CIRCLE METHOD

By Oka Rodi Putra

Baturaja University

2016

okarorody@gmail.com

oseanoka.blogspot.co.id

ABSTRACT

This article is launched by seeing the highly seriously significant problems that are faced by the students in literature class. They are dealing with students’ interest and motivation in learning literature. Most of students are uninterested and unmotivated to learn about literature since they find difficulties in understanding figurative language that is mostly overwhelming the language preceded in literary works. In fact, students do not get the point on how the figurative language is preceded to illustrate the implied meaning of the passage, so it will be best to introduce them the figurative language to be the staffing stone in owning the interests of learning literature. Understanding figurative language, therefore, can be perfectly retrieved through a cooperative learning covering ESA principles, that is, literature circles. Literature circles is a temporary discussion groups between students who have chosen to read the same book in which each of the students has their own roles that differ one another. Literature circles are one important tool to motivate students. When students are given a voice in what they read they are more likely to learn and enjoy the experience. Additionally, their learning deepens and becomes more meaningful.

Keywords: figurative language, literature circles, literature course, students’ interests

ASSESSING WRITING

Simple ways to assess the writing skills of students with learning disabilities

          A teacher's first responsibility is to provide opportunities for writing and encouragement for students who attempt to write. A teacher's second responsibility is to promote students' success in writing. The teacher does this by carefully monitoring students' writing to assess strengths and weaknesses, teaching specific skills and strategies in response to student needs, and giving careful feedback that will reinforce newly learned skills and correct recurring problems. These responsibilities reveal, upon inspection, that assessment is clearly an integral part of good instruction. In their review of the existing research on effective instruction Christenson, Ysseldyke, and Thurlow (1989) found that, in addition to other factors, the following conditions were positively correlated to pupil achievement:

Assessing Listening

ASSESSING LISTENING

OBSERVING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE FOUR SKILL

Before focusing on listening itself, think about the two interacting concepts of performance and observation. All language users perform the acts of listening. Speaking, reading & writing. They of course rely on their underlying competence in order to accomplish these performances. When you propose to asses that person’s competence, but you observe the person’s performance.

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Comparing TOEFL and TOEIC

Comparing TOEFL and TOEIC

TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) is meant to evaluate the English ability of those interested in academic study. Japanese students who plan to study abroad, for example, must usually take this in order to be accepted by North American colleges and universities. TOEFL is also used as a placement test, as a test to measure progress in a language-training program, and as an "exit test" to make sure that students have reached a certain level of English ability when they finish a program of language study.

Article for GIVING A FEEDBACK in a TEST

20 Ways to Provide Effective Student Feedback
 

1. Student feedback should be educative in nature.

Providing feedback means giving students an explanation of what they are doing correctly AND incorrectly. However, the focus of the feedback should be based essentially on what the students is doing right. It is most productive to a student’s learning when they are provided with an explanation and example as to what is accurate and inaccurate about their work.

Exploring Reliability and Validity of Such Academic Assessment

Reliability is the degree to which an assessment tool produces stable and consistent results.

Types of Reliability

1.            Test-retest reliability is a measure of reliability obtained by administering the same test twice over a period of time to a group of individuals.  The scores from Time 1 and Time 2 can then be correlated in order to evaluate the test for stability over time. 

Example:  A test designed to assess student learning in psychology could be given to a group of students twice, with the second administration perhaps coming a week after the first.  The obtained correlation coefficient would indicate the stability of the scores.

My Favorite Course

I have many courses in English education department of Baturaja University. But, I rather love all courses dealing with linguistics than the 4L skills. I love analyzing the study of language, that is, linguistics.

Linguistics is the scientific study of language, specifically of language form, language meaning, and language in context. Linguistics analyses human language as a system for relating sounds (or signs in signed languages) and meaning. Phonetics studies acoustic and articulatory properties of the production and perception of speech sounds and non-speech sounds. The study of language meaning, on the other hand, deals with how languages encode relations between entities, properties, and other aspects of the world to convey, process, and assign meaning, as well as to manage and resolve ambiguity. While the study of semantics typically concerns itself with truth conditions, pragmatics deals with how context influences meanings.

I think it is the most interesting thing to be learned. There must be many field of linguistics, including Phonology, Morphology, Semantics, Psycholinguistics, and so on. Each of them provides many more interesting things to be focused on. Studying about linguistics gives its own power, so that I, myself, is pretty much trapped into this scientific study. I really wish I can become a professional linguist some sweet day. Amiin. Thank you :)

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Testing, testing ...
What is a language test?

Testing is a universal feature of social life. Throughout history people have been put to the test to prove their capabilities or to establish their credentials; this is the stuff of Homeric epic, of Arthurian legend. In modern societies such tests have proliferated rapidly. Testing for purposes of detection or to establish identity has become an accepted part of sport (drugs testing), the law (DNA tests, paternity tests, lie detection tests), medicine (blood tests, cancer screening tests, hearing, and eye tests), and other fields. Tests to see how a person performs particularly in relation to a threshold of performance have become important social institutions and fulfil a gatekeeping function in that they control entry to many important social roles. These include the driving test and a range of tests in education and the workplace. Given the centrality of testing in social life, it is perhaps surprising that its practice is so little understood. In fact, as so often happens in the modern world, this process, which so much affects our lives, becomes the province of experts and we become dependent on them. The expertise of those involved in testing is seen as remote and obscure, and the tests they produce are typically associated in us with feelings of anxiety and powerlessness.

The Distinction between "Testing" and "Assessment"

The Distinction between "Testing" and "Assessment"

Our line of argument is that testing is a small part of assessment. It needs to be part of the picture. Many people who are anti-testing end up sounding anti-evaluation and anti-measurement. A good test has a role to play. The language that we like to use is, it's an audit. It's a snapshot. You don't run your business for the audit. You want more than a snapshot, you want a whole family album. But the audit and the snapshot have a place in the larger picture.

What can the test do that more complex, performance-based, project-based things can't do? Look for discrete knowledge and skill for the individual student. Many projects, because they're so collaborative, end up making you wonder, well, what about the individual student? What does the individual student know?

For instance, in some state-based, performance-based assessment, they always had a parallel paper-and-pencil test for the individual student so that you had enough data on the individual. A different way to say it -- and this is what scientists and researchers say -- is triangulate the information.

one of complicated midterm tests 😂

Name    : Oka Rodi Putra
NPM    : 1423 037
Class    : A.IV.1
English Prose course
Lecturer : Nurul Afifah, M.Pd
Midterm



Questions:
Explain and mention the element of fiction and the kinds of fictions? And how they contribute to the story development?
Tell the setting of short story “The Dumb Man” by Sherwood Anderson? And how each characterization and irony plays their roles in fiction?
Write an essay analyzing the character’s psychological found in short story “Senility” by Sherwood Anderson?

my essay

AN ACADEMIC ESSAY:

THE SIGNIFICANCE REASONS WHY ENGLISH EDUCATION STUDENTS SHOULD LEARN ABOUT LINGUISTICS

This academic essay is written to fulfil one of the Advanced Writing assignments

Written by

Name                : OKA RODI PUTRA

NPM                : 14 23 037

my old poem

Melukis Di Atas Air

Oleh : Oka Rodi Putra

Kelam-kelam di pegunungan
Menyaksikan alam berpemandangan embun
Terdengar asyik tarian angsa di tepi telaga
Kucium wangi segar rerumpunan bunga kamelia

Kumelangkah ke arahnya
Lalu duduk di bawah teduh batangnya
Kusentuh air suci di telaga
Menggerakkan kreasi di atas kanvas jiwa

Kucobamelukis arti hidup ini
Mencoba menatap dari sisi lampau hamba
Apakah kanvas ini masih suci?
Apakah hamba berlumuran dosa?

Ah..tak selarasnya daku bertanya
Pada sebuah ranah beralaskan benda cair ini
Aku tahu benda mati memang tak dapat bicara
Walaupun kupukul, kuhentakkan, kuhujamkan
Tak kan luntur noda dalam sukmaku
Hanyalah waktu yang akan melakukan sesuatu
Mengubah, menggantikan, bahkan menghilangkan
Atas izin dari-Nya

a poem from nowhere 😋

Setangkai Harapan
Oleh : Oka Rodi Putra

Secercah nyala api di sudut sana
Menambah kilauan cahaya bulan
Dalam sunyi malam purnama
Nyamuk dan kunang saling menelan

Andai biru hati ini tak terlukis kembali
Dan suasana penuh warna kan tergapai
Tanpa daya tangan tak jua sampai merengkuh tali
Hanya gapaian biola tua ini yang sayangnya tak berdawai

Jemari terus enggan dan letih
Malasnya tak berniat untuk berpikir
Hanya alunan suara jangkrik lirih
Ku berpegang pada setangkai harapan tersingkir

Ah...apa guna menggapainya?
Asa yang sulit diajak bercanda lagi
Lalu daku hanya bisa merenunginya
Mungkin elegi tak menjemputku lagi

The man who wears a blue gown

 The man who wears a blue gown
 By : Oka Rodi Putra

There was a gloomy day. The wind was found its rythm. There was no clear rain, but dots of slight drizzle were seen. One old-fashioned man sat on the corner of the street. He was sad. He felt broken. Like a crumpled paper, he whose heart was perfectly blue. It has been occured when he fell down after receiving a bottle of pleasant champagne. He was really happy to have that lovely branded beverage. He drank it satisfactorily until he found something strange on it.

           "Whata good day. I'm full of pleasure. Is this from my honey?", said the man.

Then, there was a piece of blue clothe. The man then broke the bottle whenever he blooded quite little because of the hitting of its part of sharp skin.

"Ouchhh!!!"

The piece of small blue clothe that was found as a torn gown appeared. Surprisingly, it covered a piece of lovely soft blue paper inside. The man was really curious about it. He grasped it and read it seriously. What was next? His heart was unconditionally turned into blue, like a blue thing he took of. Like billion of pebbles, it is thown away by. He was really sick of the girl, a young girl whom the man adored, is come unexpectedly into the handwriting letter. How come if it was not poured down into sadness whenever what preceded onto blue letter was piece of writing overwhelming of words made in knives.

          "I'm dying, I'm flying. I need fresh water or something plain but liquid."
          That was the man, the man who is now wearing soft blue gown. He always sits on
          the corner of the street-seat and think of the girl who never comes to him after the
          hard situation.
       
        _ THE END_

My Brief Profile 😊

Hello, bloggers!!!
Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Oka Rodi Putra. Somebody calls me Oka. I was born in a small village that you cannot see on screen, Batukuning village, subdistricting West Baturaja, South Sumatera, Indonesia, on October 4th 1996. I am the fourth child in my family. With a good personality, I can make everyone close to me. I am unpredictable person, too. I have an introvert character. I love texting rather than speaking. I enjoy my lonely time for more. Now, I am a student majoring English Education Study Program of Baturaja University. I am ambitious and spiritful person. I wanna be successful man someday. I wanna reach my golden future. That's all I think. Thanks for your attention. Bye bye 😊