Sunday, October 28, 2012

Trace Effects 3D Game online

Trace Effects is 3D immersive, interactive adventure Game Online for learning English. This game is published and produced by US Department of State. It can be used as a supplementary tool to support learning objectives and engage students in communicative language practice and production and more. This online game is going be announced by the end of 2012.


The game trace effect is made by the “U.S department of state” and it was made to teach English to students all around the world. The concept of trying to teach students by letting them play a game is in my opinion great. In the modern society we live in we need to think outside the box and thing new. Sitting in a classroom listening to a teacher is not thinking outside the box. Listening to a teacher is something we have done in years so I really want to give some credits to the U.S department of state for being creative. The only problem that I faced was playing the game. The game itself did actually have a good concept/story, but the play style, graphics and the English used in the game isn’t really good. From my own experience I would say that I learn much more English from games like Farcry, Skyrim and pretty much all other online games because these types of games are fun to play.

The English used in the game is also too easy for the age group 12-16 which is the age the game is made for. Trace effect is just about running around trying to find different objects/persons which I personally don’t find any interest in. So my conclusion of the game is that it might  work out as a English teaching program for little kids at the age of 6-10 and not for the age 12-16. One thing people should not forget is that gaming can be very fun and teach full as long as it is interesting to play. The loading screen also took quite some time to get by which would probably mislead other people or make them bored, which equals to them clicking away from website.

Here is the link to the website:
– http://americanenglish.state.gov/trace-effects


Keep in touch with this game through following this link.




Thursday, September 13, 2012

The 59 TEFLIN International Conference

Hi there.

TEFLIN Conference is going to be held at Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya. The theme on this conference is English Language Learning and Teaching in the Digitization Era .
Hurry up! Join the conference!

Here is the link and TEFLIN link

Thursday, March 01, 2012

Peta Materi 2011/2012

PETA MATERI
BAHASA INGRIS SMA SEMESTER
GENAP


TAHUN
PELAJARAN 2011/2012


 



GRADE


MATERI


X


Genre

-  Narrative *

-  Descriptive *

-  News Item


Language Function (Expression)

-  Gratitude *

-  Complementing *

-  Congratulating *

-  Surprise *

-  Disbelief

-  invitation

-  offering something


Short Functional Text

-  Announcement *

-  Advertisement *

-  Invitation
Card


Grmmar (additional)

-  Noun
phrase *

-  Direct/indirect *

-  Past
tense *

-  Passive (present and past only)

-   


XI IPA - IPS


Genre

-  Narrative *

-  Spoof (not available on mid and semester test, it is allowed on
daily test)

(it is being replaced with analytical exposition)*

-  Hortatory Exposition


Language Function (Expression)

-  Showing attitudes toward something * (agree, disagree, like,
dislike)

-  Love *

-  Sadness *

-  Embarrassment *

-  Anger

-  Annoyance


Short Functional Text

-  Banner *

-  Poster *

-  Pamphlet

-  Application letter


Grmmar (additional)

-  Conditional sentence 1 &2 *

-  Conjunction *

-  Past
continuous

-  Noun clause


XI Language Program


The material of Language class is same with XI IPA –
IPS and the following topic:

- 
Song

- 
Poem


XII IPA – IPS - Language


-  Based on SKL 2012


Grammar

-  Passive voice

-  Conditional sentence 1,2 ,3

-  Causative

-  Subjunctive

-  Direct/indirect


 


That’s all folks

Sunday, February 26, 2012

WORKSHOP PTK WITH Drs. M. Syafe'i, M.Pd.

On tuesday, february 21st 2012, Jepara English Teachers Association held a workshop on PTK (Classroom Action Research) with Mr. Drs. M. Syafe'i, M.Pd. (lecturer of Muria Kudus University).
The conclusion of this workshop is that teachers should be ready to be a researcher and motivate themselves to do research if they want to be promoted.

Here are the pictures of our activity






and the files can be downloaded here