Teacher Professional Development

Professionalism of teachers is often attributed to three factors are quite important, namely the competence of teachers, teacher certification and teacher professional allowance. The third factor is the background that was allegedly closely associated with the quality of education. Professional teachers as evidenced by its competence shall promote the establishment process and product performance which can support the quality of education. Competent teachers can be evidenced by the acquisition of teacher certification following an adequate allowance according to the size of Indonesia. Today, there are a number of teachers who have been certified, it will be certified, has gained professional allowance, and will acquire the professional allowance. The fact that the teachers have been certified is a strong assumption, that the teacher already has competence. The problem that arises then, that the teacher is assumed to have had the competence which is only based on the assumption that they have been certified; it seems in the long term it is difficult to be accountable academically. Evidence have been certified, the teacher is present condition, which is generally a quality teacher resources shortly after certification. Therefore, the certification is closely related to the learning process, the certification cannot be assumed to reflect the competence of a superior lifetime. Post- certification should be an early milestone for teachers to constantly improve competence by means of long-life learning. To facilitate the improvement of teacher competence, it is necessary that a competence is initiated in order to manage the development of teachers’ professionalism.

Elizabethan Period (The Golden Age of English Literature)

English literature has been developed in some period. Each period has its own characteristics which portrayed the condition of the age. The period of English literature is started from Old English until Modern English. English literature becomes glorious when Queen Elizabeth I ruled England. This age is known as Elizabethan period. In this period, there are many literary works such as poetry, drama which are produced by famous artists. The literary works produced in Elizabethan period is famous and the existence of the literary works can be seen nowadays. Furthermore, some literary works, such as drama, are reproduced into movie. Therefore, this period is also known as the golden age of English Literature.

The Effect of Semantic Mapping Strategy On Students’ Speaking Achievement In Smp Budi Murni 3

This study aims to discover the effect of applying Semantic Mapping Strategy on students’ speaking achievement. It will be conducted by using experimental research design. The population of this research is the eight (VIII) grade students of SMP Budi Murni 3. The samples of the research are two classes divided into two groups, experimental and control group which will be chosen by using random sampling technique. Thirty-one students will be taken as the samples. The experimental group will be taught by using Semantic Mapping Strategy, while the control group will be taught by without using Semantic Mapping Strategy. After analyzing the data, it was found that the value of tobserved was 3,12 with the degree of freedom (df)=60 at the level of significance p (0,05) = 2,000. It means that tobserved is higher than ttable (3,12>2,000). The result of this study shows that Semantic Mapping Strategy is significant effect on students’ speaking achievement.

An analysis of Students Ability in Skimming and Scanning in Reading Class of English Department FTIK IAIN LANGSA

The purposes of this study were to find out the ability of students in Skimming and Scanning and to investigate how the students apply the procedure in Skimming and Scanning in Reading class. This study applied a descriptive qualitative approach. The writer used purposive sampling. The writer had nine respondents. The writer used documentation and observation as the instrument. Based on the results, indicated that in skimming, the students made a question, some also looked at the table of contents, they read or browsed at high speed, but some students were still affected to Look at reading topics. Then all students stopped when they found the topic they were looking for. but some students were not careful when text a reading. In scanning, the students also saw the table of contents first, but some students directly browsed to the page they wanted to find, besides, the students also read the background, and they also read the conclusions at a glance.

Developing Vocabulary Materials for Teaching Learning Process

Language instruction has five important components that they are students, a teacher, materials, teaching methods and evaluation. Teaching materials should help the students to learn or as a part of the class activities of instruction learning in the class. The materials should help the teacher and the students. Ideally, teaching materials will be tailored to the content in which they are being used, to the students in whose class they are being used, and the teacher. Teaching materials come in many shapes and sizes, but they all in common the ability to support students learning. So, teaching materials can support students learning and increase students’ success. Hence, instructional materials for effective teaching. The quality of those materials is a valuable skill that the teacher must be mastered. The materials chosen in teaching learning include textbook that extent to which a curriculum that will involve teacher made material, which content of additional activities and exercises, handouts, charts, review sheets, etc.

Students Problem in Translating Pragmatic Equivalency

The objective of the study is to analyze students’ problem in pragmatic equivalence from Source Language to Target Language. The research applied qualitative method, data collected through questionnaire, interview, and observation. To process the data, interactive model of Miles and Huberman was applied to find out the result of the research. The subject of the study was the sixth semester students of English Education Department who are taken a translation class. The result showed that there are several problems faced by students on pragmatic equivalence from Source Language to Target Language in translation class. Those problems are coherence process, implicature/idiom, language structure, quality and velocity. And they faced the problem with many factors including on lack of understanding and mastering the material while translation learning occurs. Based on these finding it can be concluded that has faced the problem in pragmatic equivalence.