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Senin, 26 Desember 2011

LEARNING HOW TO LEARN

Diposting oleh Annisa el Husna di 20.02 0 komentar

LEARNING HOW TO LEARN
1.      Find your strengths.
Learning how to learn by find our strengths in both vital senses such as ears and ayes are experiential, mindful, and engaging. Through it we can explore a set of learning experiences that can be more effective and interesting to develop our English capability. Begin by explore your ears and listen to your teacher. Based on my experiences, I engaged train my ears as my first activities as an individual to became an active listener since I learned Actional Functional Model. In the active listening activity, intentionally focuses on who I was listening to, whether in a lecture, in a conversation, or a group, in order to understand what is said. So, I am interested to listening the news report on MetroTv which called Indonesian Now streaming every Saturdays, at 9 a. m. Tascha Liudmila and Dalton Tanonaka are news presenters of this show. Realize that, I should then be able to replay or repeat back in my own words what they have said. This does not mean I agree with, but rather understand, what they are saying. Understanding about this rule, I took one topic as my concern that I would told to someone else with what I have listened. One of the topic is kid and hajj where Mr. Dalton as a presenter of the information. I tried to be more concentration and listened carefully. After that, I told to my cousin, Indri what I have heard about kid and hajj. Every year, millions of Muslims travel to Makkah to perform Hajj. Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam and is one of the most important duties we need to carry out. Now, children can explain or act out how a person may return from  Hajj and how to feel transformed by the experience.  Participants in this age group must perform a mock hajj and orally explain the basic rituals of hajj. Children should appear before judges with ihram.  They should be able to demonstrate tawaf, sai, jamrah, and the importance of the day of Eid Al-Adha to the judges. Besides, I will be always listening to English News Report to train my ears and find my strengths. Then, tell someone/friends what I have listened from the News. And one day, it has proved that I have a strong ears, of course, I will be always listen to my Tutor at lecturing and make it as my habit.
Then, I train my eyes by read a short article about some English Learning Strategies literature or book which related on my lecture.  Again, I told to my cousin Indri who can understand English well. Because of my home work about Psycholinguistics where I supposed to understand much of articles, I read about psycholinguistics scope that told as part of the field of cognitive science and is the study of how individuals comprehend, produce and acquire language. Especially in language acquisition, the article serves some definition, for example; language acquisition is studied in relation of three classes of variable. The terms of them are environmental factors, cognitive processes and innate linguistic mechanism. In those reading process, I use addition technique in reading, like skim the material.  Here I read only chapter headings, introductions, and summaries.  Beside that, because of my problem is lack of vocabulary, I read by highlighting and underlining key information, and taking notes. After that, I can re inform some important information of that article to others people, like my friends at campus. In discussion class, I saw a little progress in my self, like following the discussion actively, and able to shared my new ideas to my friends about lecturing materials. I hope, I can do this activity very well, so it is mean I have strong eyes. It will be more helpful to my life and make it as my habit in understanding English.

2.       Develop your intrinsic motivations and change your extrinsic motivations to be your intrinsic motivations since only intrinsic motivations help learners to be successful.
One thing that I have realized is about my motivation. As long as I live, in my personal, I only have an extrinsic motivation. Every time I do something, my motivation comes from outside an individual. My motivating factors are external, or outside, rewards such as money or grades. It has happened, because I do not understand about the nature of motivation exactly. I think it will be okay, do something or get something because people beside you, or to get reward. Yet, since I learned the lecture material about Actional Functional Model, I begin to understand about motivation and how to separate it. Intrinsic motivation refers to motivation that comes from inside an individual rather than from any external or outside rewards, such as money or grades. So that, I ask myself change my wrong motivation. I will become a person who will work on my English, because it is enjoyable. If I find some trouble in my English course, I will try finding a solution to a problem because the challenge of finding a solution is provides a sense of pleasure. I will leave my self who is someone work on the task because there is some reward involved, such as a prize from parents or a grade from my teacher.
I become aware external rewards are not enough to keep a person motivated. For example, last week, I have a lot of assignments of all lecturers; I have almost given up to do it. Especially my Psycholinguistics assignment that I need to read 16 articles, make their recension, make one paper, make reading report from two books and also two power point. It has made my crazy, and I decided did not make it. Why it can be happened? Because I may want to get a good grade on an assignment, but if the assignment does not interest anymore, the possibility of a good grade is not enough to maintain my motivation to put any effort into the project. I was really disappointed to my self, and I waked up from my silliness. I said to my self, I will do every single work because I would like to do it, not because someone. In my mind, everyone is born with the ability to think and learn a specialized cognitive code called human language. Many ways to acquire language understand and produce it, especially in English Language Learning. All languages work in the same way. They all have words and sentences and sound systems and grammatical relations. Like birds inherit the ability to fly and fish too swim, men also inherit the ability to think and to use language in a manner, which is unique to our species. Because of that, start from now, I already to motivate my self to learn and change my extrinsic motivation. I am going to speak English in my class and practice in my community. And sometime if I fell not confident with my self, I will stay continue practicing my English, even though my friends will laugh at me. It does not matter. We will not be enjoying with our self, if we always think about someone else think about us. Nothing will happen if we make mistake and don’t let it bother you. That is I have said to my self as an effort to change my mind set and motivation in learning and practice English.

 

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