Sharing Session After School Experience Program (5th Journal PETA) By Desri Fitriana

The last meeting with Miss Ine we just shared our experienced when we had School Experience last week. We divided into four groups, so we shared our experienced into our group. We discussed about what you applied an effective teaching in the class when we taught in School Experienced Program? What the issues? Most of all my friends told me that they had applied an effective teaching when they taught, maybe for the way sometimes everybody had a different ways. So, for myself, I also applied an effective teaching in my class with used lecturer-discussion method for Analytical Exposition topic. So, for the first time when I taught, I reviewed the previous lesson to tested their comprehension. And then, I explained the material for today with short explanation, not detail. So, for the next I asked to my students about the topic itself. I also applied games for made our taught more active.

Actually our students very excited when we taught them. Because their teacher who our master teacher also, taught them with different way. So, when we taught with games and role play they really excited. But we also had problems like technology issues, time management and students’ capabilities. In the first time when my team taught we already planned to used power point slide. But unfortunately, the projector did not work. So, can you imagine in the first time when we taught we had a problem with technic like projector, how panic we were? But we should do oral presentation without power point slide.

Not only with technology, but actually our big problem is students ‘capabilities in English itself. Before we taught our master teacher suggested to did not spoke fully English. So, when we taught in the class we spoke bilingual. But unfortunately, when we spoke in English, sometimes some of students did not understand what we said to them, so we should translate into Bahasa. Yeah, we translate into Bahasa. We only spoke English approximate 50% in the class, not fully. Wow, it really was challenging :).

Technology to Teach Writing (4th Journal TLL) By Desri Fitriana

Nowadays, the way to teach writing is various. Based on my experienced when I have been studying in SSE is very many ways to teach writing. Especially in the third semester, I think most of subjects emphasized in writing. So, the students should have written reflective paper every week approximate for four subjects. In reflective paper itself, focus on the writer. So, it is consist of writers’ expression, opinion or suggestion.

Raimes (1991) identified four different focuses in second language writing, such as: Focus on form, Focus on the writer, Focus on the content and Focus on the reader. In my opinion, as a generation of teachers it is better if we combined all of those things. Because, when we do writing not only focus on form itself. Sometimes if we talk about writing, some of people think that writing should have good and grammatical sentences and no grammatical error. I do not really agree! But remember, for the first time when we learnt about writing, in my opinion it is better we should be start from recount text. In the recount text our students can be express what their feel into writing. For example, they can be able to write based on their experiences, like holiday, working or unforgettable moments. So, I think it is easier to make our students writing than they should only focus on grammar.

Because like I did, wrote reflective paper itself can be drill our capabilities, like how make a good sentences, how to make grammatical structure itself. Step by step it makes our knowledge about forms are good, especially when our teacher give feedback to us. It is more make me know clearly what our mistakes when we make mistakes. So, let’s try to write your reflective paper guys J.

Personal Identity among Others (3rd Journal Humanistic) By Desri Fitriana

Actually my parents came from Java Island, Cirebon. But, I was born and have lived in Jakarta since I was born. So, I have never known about Javanese, especially the languages. Can imagine I only came to Cirebon very rare, only if I have special events. As a Jakarta people I always use Bahasa Indonesia for my communication, unfortunately I do not understand about Javanese languages, even for daily communication, I do not know.

Sometimes I felt that my identity is bias, because when my friends has an original ethnic or region, and they were know about their ethnic, can speak fluently into that languages, but for me is NOT, I cannot do it.  I think how proud you are. In my case, I never got Javanese languages from my parents, my environments and my friends. Actually I do not interested to try learn about that languages, because for me Javanese more difficult than English, hehe :p.

So, sometimes when the others ask to me “Where do you came from?”. Sometimes I confused to answer that question. When I said I came from Javanese, it is impossible, because I do not speak Javanese. So, I always answer that I came from Jakarta; even my family does not Betawi ethnic. I said like that, because I lived in Jakarta since I was born. So, until now I always confused when my friends ask to me like that. So, that is why I called my ethnic is bias.