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On this topic the lecturer also provides a video that discusses Techology and Grammar which can be used as a reference for understanding this material, with the video provided by Mr. Dedy Kurniawan really helped me in understanding all the material taught from topic 1 to topic 6. The Technology-Grammar Connection There are important connections between technology and grammar. Technology provides access to many different ways for students to study grammar. Technology has changed the way that linguists study grammar; example like the use of corpus Teachers can find many resources to help teach grammar on the Internet. And why Grammar is Important? Grammar lets us combine words to make phrases, phrases to make clauses, and clauses to make sentences. Vocabulary provides the building blocks but those blocks get put together to say things by using the rules of grammar. We need to build complex sentences to understand and learn complex things. We need sentences to

Kahoot!  is a free game-based platform where students can participate and get a response from the teachers in real time. The Kahoot tool is like an advanced platform for learning and playing games. The platform also lets others create and launch their own games so other players can also play and explore the new games every day. The platform is used by millions of people around the world to discover, play and share a variety of games with others. It’s like a collaborative platform for learning new things on a daily basis. In accordance with the assignment given by Mr., Dedy Kurniawan, namely to make a quiz about vocabulary or grammar, and I chose to make a quiz about grammar containing ten questions in the form of multiple choice by using Kahoot!.  I choose Kahoot! because this website is very easy to use and its colorful appearance is very attractive and not boring. You can also check the quiz that I made using Kahoot! and can also play it by answering the questions I g

This topic also has videos that must be watched to provide a deeper understanding of the material being taught namely Technology and Teaching Vocabulary, you can check the video below In this video, one of the examples of websites that can be used by teachers and students in teaching vocabulary, the website is  Voice of America "News Words" which provides new vocabulary every day with a style of reading news that can be learned and understood the meaning of the words given. News Words is one example of vocabulary on the Voice of America webpages. In this section the authors have taken words   that are found in news stories and they have created little mini lessons about each of the words. And these are some of the reasons why learning vocabulary is important :  Without grammar little can be conveyed. We can’t say much without grammar but without vocabulary, nothing can be conveyed. Vocabulary holds the meaning. Historically, vocabulary has been a

This is the second topic that we language through this online lecture which is about Techology and Speaking and there are several videos we have to watch to help our understanding of this material. In this video some examples of websites are given that can help students improve their speaking ability, one of which is a website that can be used to improve students' pronunciation when speaking this website is called  Youglish.com YouGlish.com  is a website that you can find on the Internet that allows students to type in something that they would like say but don’t know how to pronounce. They can type it in and the website will find some examples or video where people are saying that exact expression. There are also websites that allow people to have indirect conversations using websites or video call applications, one of the examples of applications is Skype. So just like the telephone was an amazing tool of the past, the Internet with applications like S

This is our first online lecture because the Corona virus pandemic which caused face-to-face lectures must be stopped. In the first topic in this online lecture we discussed Technology and Listening with Mr. Dedy Kurniawan, to convey the material, the lecturer used an existing e-learning site  e-learning.english.unja.ac.id by giving videos from YouTube to help our understanding of the material being taught, after that there were some questions that had to be answered to find out how we understood the information conveyed through video the. This video gives some examples of technology in the form of websites from the internet that can be used by teachers to teach listening skills to their students, among these websites are : Voice of America Voice of America : This website provides some news or articles that students can listen to to improve their listening skills.        2.  ESL Lab ESL Lab  is an Internet site that is focused on providing free listening

At this eighth meeting On Monday, March 09, 2020. We were assigned to make a question or quiz using one application called Hot Potatoes.  The Hot Potatoes suite includes five applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source. By using Hot Potatoes, we can make our own test online.  There are six features that can be used to create questions or quizzes with various forms in this Hot Potatoes application, including: l multiple-choice quizzes (JBC) l gap-fill exercises (JClose) l text-entry (short-answer) exercises (JQuiz) l crosswords (JCross) l jumbled-sentence/jumbled-word (drag-and-drop) exercises (JMix) l ordering/matching (drag-and-drop) exercises (JMatch ) This is one example of multiple choice questions that I made using the JQuiz