2nd Journal of Technology and Language Learning "General Characteristics of Digital Media"

In this digital era, teachers ask to deliver the material by using digital media. Computer and internet are the package that can be use in teaching language in the classroom. As we know that computer provide office tool that help you in writing and presenting. You can edit your work and add some images, audios and videos to make your writing or presentation become more clear and interesting. Teachers can ask the students to publish their work on the internet. May be the teacher can provide a class website or the students can create their own blog. Internet has provided the websites but however, you should pay attention to the copyright issue to avoid the criminal thing.

Communication is the heart of language teaching and learning. Email, blog and social networking are electronic communication that can be used for teachers and students to still keep in touch. Those things are now new things for us. If you have good writing skill, you can earn money by writing in the blog. As many as members you have and the comment make your blog is expensive. Language teaching process can be helped by using software such as lecture maker, audacity, macromedia flash, etc. Teachers can provide the material and the assignment there. Students also can improve their understanding by having some quises that provided by the teacher with the score. So you can check how deep your understanding.  In this digital era, teachers ask to understand the way to create as interesting, creative as the material by using software. As the teachers later, you have to selective find the software which can help us in teaching process especially in teaching language.

The 1st individual essay of Humanistic Studies

It is my first time learns about the whole part of human life. When you are talking about human, you will think from some aspects such as human as an individual, part of society, multicultural and the diversity of religion. I think this lesson is interesting because I could learn about human life through this lesson. One person to another is quietly different. Even they come up from the same ethnicity but their language and religion could be different. So that’s why I want to know more about those differences in this lesson. What is the effect of those differences in human life? And how the culture and religion change the human life? I really want to have the answers of those questions. I wish I could realize that differences is beautiful, you have to care and know each other. You can put yourself well in a society. Talk about human as an individual, you have to know about your name’s meaning because there is something special behind that but actually I do not know what is the meaning of my name, what I know just my name had been changed 3 times.

Differences are important. If you just found everything in your life are the same you will feel bored. Take an example: at SSE, the members are from different town, ethnicity and religion. If you just find someone who is from the same ethnicity and religion with you, you will no longer know about others who are different. You will only talk about you without know what are they (who come from different ethnicity and religion) doing out there, what is their habit, do we have any similarities. You will not realize that having different friends is nice. You can learn many things from them. You have such a sharing about you and them. That really adds your information.

I just feel my experience about having friends from different ethnicity and religion in SSE. Actually I have such those different friends in my time before but I just feel different here. I can learn about other region, start from the languages, the habit and then what is unique from that. As many as languages you know it will helps you. If you go to a region without know about that region first you will feel like a strange person and useless. I ever went to a town in Central Java but I do not know the language itself and the society’s habit. I felt so strange. I did not know what they were talking about and what did they mean when they were having an activity. I cannot be myself who like to talk and doing everything. I just keep silent. That’s really bad experience. Now, talking about religion I feel happy by having friends from different religion because sometimes they are more respectful than those who have same religion. When we are having discussion outside the class then they will remain us that are time for you to pray. I could know about their religion and sometime we have like a sharing and talking about our religion.

                                                                                                                                

Technology and Second Language Teaching

Technology is useful things which are not strange for people right now. People already get used to with technology and used it in their daily life. When you are learning language in a classroom, you will find many technologies such as speaker, laptop, lcd projector, etc but the main technology that really familiar is computer. Based on the history of technology and language learning, each teacher has their own language type and each type has its own technology such as grammar translation method, its own technology is blackboard, audiolingual method with audio-tape and the last is communicative language teaching which have the terms of how the best integrate technology into the classroom. 

Email and website are the most favorite part of technology used in the classroom. Actually, the usage of technology has advantages and the advantages. Technology can be a useful thing if you use it on the right way. It can save your money and your time. You can just sending email to submit your assignment without meet the teachers. Technology can be a monster, if you really depend on it. Once you do not use or have a contact with it, you just feel like life is difficult. You can not life and do many things without technology. Sometimes, technology just makes your life difficult. Teacher right now should be proud of the progress of technology because they should not explain to the student about what is technology, the kinds and also the function because students right now are native of technology. Since they were a kid, they learn about technology by themselves. However it is, teacher should know more about technology to control their students’ attitude toward technology.