Akhmad Farroby
112010072
“Synthesis Homework Skills C-D”
In
this article, I will combine between the third article entitled “Assessment of
Achievement in Foreign Language” of reading response journal C and the fourth article
entitled “Self-Evaluations of the ‘Stream of Thought’ in Journal Writing” of
Reading Response Journal D. First, the article is about Assessment of
Achievement in Foreign Language contains a Comprehensive Swedish Program which
examines condition and result that occur in the compulsory school. The program
focuses on English as a subject, teacher and student attitudes, and attainment
level reached. I think the program is very useful and can help development and
achievement of the student. According to discussion of the article, Swedish add
the program that provide teachers with information about representative
performance levels in core subject for the purpose of achieving reliability and
stability in the end-of-term or end-of-course grading of pupils or the
students.
It
is ‘Testing Program’ that planned by
Swedish as a different system. In my mind, I agree with the program, because it
is also useful for the student. It can measure their ability when they follow
teaching learning activity about study of language. Then, the article gives the
information about The 1992 English Study. It contains some cores subjects that
consist of English, Mathematics, and Swedish. I argued that only English those
become a core subject of the assessment. I think other cores subjects like
mathematics and Swedish also included in the assessment.
The purpose is make the student be able to learn
other study and it can help them in certain situation. It doesn’t matter that
English become the final year of compulsory school. The article shows that
Subject specific goals are described in quite general terms. As regards the
subject of English as a foreign language, it is specified that the pupil or the
student, through their studies, that they can be able to understand spoken
English, I think it is good, because it can increase their ability about
speaking skill; make themselves understood in spoken English, I think is
useful, because it can make their self-confidence when they speak with the
foreigners; read and understand passages of various kinds, I think it is good for
the student, because it can be able to train ability of pupils think critically
about reading skill; and use the written language in simple forms, I think is
good, because it can make the pupils write the language correctly and improve
their mistake about the grammatical error in writing skill. The article tells
that the instruction suggest for the people to want and dare to use the English
language, I agree with instruction, because it can make the pupil encourage to
use English language in the certain situation; to acquire a knowledge and
interest in the everyday life, working life, social conditions, and culture in
the English speaking countries, I think it is useful, because the pupil gain a
good knowledge that make them to study and use English language in the
networking; to realize the importance of English as a means of contact with
people in different parts of the world, In my mind, it is good, it can make the
pupils know that English is very important, because English language can be the
general language in the world. Second, the article is about Self-Evaluations of
the ‘Stream of Thought’ in Journal Writing contains that journal writing can be
an effective method for them to independently discover and develop their
individual academic interests and their EAP writing capacities. I agree with
the statement, because the method can help the student can be able to increase
their ability in writing skills and can reach their target on English Academic
Purposes. In this article, James’s Contend describes that the stream of thought
as having five characteristics: (1) every thought is a part of an individual’s
consciousness; (2) each thought is always changing; (3) each is sensibly
continuous; (4) every thought is directed toward objects outside itself; (5)
and thought discriminates among those objects, including some while rejecting
others. I think it can motivate the student to think critically and create some
new idea of each student that think creatively is very important. So, the
student capable to train their ability when they make a journal and can appear
their own ideas based on their skills. The article also gives the information
about Journal Exchange. It is a
benefit thing for the students. We are aware that every people unconsciously
can make some mistakes when they do something.
The purpose of journal exchange can help the
students to improve their mistake on journal writing. It is influence about
their value or grade. The student exchanges their work to another student to
correct each of the mistakes, for example about the grammatical errors, forget
to put to be, coherence, or anything
else. So, every student can aware their mistake and it can help them to improve
this, in order to them can change their grade to be better. Some experts
provide procedures that ask to the student to do assignment of writing journals
for 3 months, three times per week. Although not every student in the class
managed to faithfully write three entries per week, the 15 random selections in
this study fell into a range of 30– 34 entries over the 3-month period. They
told that the class that their grade would be based on quantity, coherence, and
interesting content rather than on grammar.
I
think I argued about the suggestion, because I see the command ask to just
examine the student’s ability about quantity, coherence, and content not
examine about the grammatical. I think the grammar is very important, because
if make a sentence without the correct grammar, it can’t be an effective
sentence. As I know that ‘stream of thought’ contains many advantages to help
the students to think creatively, critically, and discover their strength and
weaknesses as a writer. I hope the article is very useful for me, because it
also help me to be careful when I write a journal and pay attention the
mistake. It is also useful to self- monitoring of my skills writing. I think both of the articles have difference
inside. Both of these articles have benefit of each others. I’m interested to
the last article because it is an obvious discussion and related to writing
skills. It can help me to improve my academic performance especially in writing
skills. In my mind, the third article is good and important. That article said
that learn English as a foreign language to be able train our language to
communicate with foreigners from abroad. I think that’s all, I hope this
material is useful for me to teach in the future.
References
Huang,
J.Y., 2000. Effective journal writing: a pilot study. In: Huang, T., Katchen,
J., Dai, W., Leung, Y.
(Eds.),
Selected Papers from the Ninth International Symposium on English Teaching.
Crane Publishing,
Taipei,
pp. 348–358.
James,
W., 1950. The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 1. Dover, New York. (First
published in 1890).