My English Learning Blog

Hello guys! Welcome to my English Learning Blog This post will be my first post on this blog, I think in this first post we need a little introduction about me as the author of this blog. OK, My name is Fabiyan Junino Elindika, I was born in Bukittinggi on June 20, 2000, I live in Tanjung Jabung Barat since 18 years ago, which previously I lived in Padang, and now I am one of the students at Jambi University majoring in English education. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates. For further information about me, you can have a look at my resume below.

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

At this seventh meeting On Monday, March 02, 2020. It was an opportunity for my group and one other group to discuss about the syllabus that we had designed, which was about techology for teaching grammar and vocabulary. In this syllabus, especially my group that discusses technology for teaching vocabulary, we provide a sample website that can be used by teachers to create an interesting quiz for students to test their understanding of English vocabulary, the website name is  Kahoot.com and very easy to use. And from other groups discussing technology for teaching grammar, in their syllabus they provide an example of a website that can be used by teachers to provide exercises such as quizzes about grammar to their students and see how well their students will understand the material delivered, this website is called  Englishclub.com  . Englishclub.com  website For more details, you can also see their syllabus  and also syllabus from my group  by clicking on this link :

At this sixth meeting, On Monday, February 24, 2020. It was an opportunity for the next group to present the syllabus teaching that they had designed, which was about teaching speaking. In this Speaking learning, we can utilize technology, especially the internet, because we can find a variety of learning media such as videos that we can use as a reference to improve our Speaking ability. One example of a website from the internet  chosen by them in this syllabus  that we can use as a reference for how to deliver a good speech, namely TED Talks , on this website there are a lot of video speeches originating from speakers from all over the world that we can use as examples in delivering a speech . For more details, you can also see their syllabus by clicking on this link  Teaching Speaking Syllabus

At the fifth meeting On Monday, February 17, 2020. The time for the next group is the third group to present syllabus that they have designed about Teaching Listening and what technology can be used by the teacher to support the learning process of Listening. Listening skills at this time is one of the most important skills because we can know that most of the information conveyed through the internet at this time is in the form of audio or video that can be heard and must have good Listening skills to get that information, and many also website or application that can help improve listening skills from the internet.  Same thing with the previous group object in this learning is English Education (Bachelor Degree). And one of the websites that can be used to support this Teaching Listening is  TED Talks by listening to speeches delivered by various speakers and finding important points delivered and determining the main ideas of the speech delivered.  In addition there are

At the fourth meeting on Monday, February 10, 2020. The time for the next group was the second group to present the syllabus they had designed about Teaching Reading and also what technology teachers could use in supporting the learning process. We can know that technology plays an important role in supporting the learning process especially Teaching Reading because there are many learning resources or learning media from the internet that can improve students' reading skills. In this syllabus they determine the object to be their learning namely English Education (Bachelor Degree) as well as the previous group. One example of the technology they recommend in supporting Teaching Reading is a website from the internet that is Diigo , this website can be used to highlight important points of a website or article from the internet that we read, thereby helping our focus to understand what information is conveyed on the website or article, besides that we can also add som

At the third meeting on On Monday, February 03, 2020. It's time for the first group to present the syllabus that they have designed about Teaching Writing and also what technology can be used by teachers to support the learning process. In their syllabus, they determine the level of students as their learning object namely English Education (Bachelor Degree).  And one type of technology that they emerge in their learning is a website from the internet namely  TED Talks which is a website that contains a collection of speeches from various speakers from all over the world but certainly speak English, then students are asked to watch and take note the important points and the main ideas from speech which delivered by the speakers. You can also click on this link to download the syllabus file that they present  Teaching Writing Syllabus

On the second  meeting of TELL Course with Mr. Tubagus Zam Zam Al-Arif, S,Pd. M,Pd. On Monday, January 2 7 , 2020, We discuss about  Technology for Teaching Writing.  At this meeting the lecturer also presented a video that helped us understand teaching writing  You can also click this link to watch the video :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppg8DEklLPs In this video discusses what technologies we can use in teaching writing and in this video one example of technology that we can use is a word processor such as Microsoft Word, Google Doc, and others that is very suitable to use because there is one feature that very helpful for us in writing the Grammar Checker which we can use to check the structure of our writing and improve it. And in this meeting we were divided into several groups and we were assigned to make syllabus from each English skill namely Writing, Listening, Reading, Speaking, Grammar, and Vocabulary, including with any technology that can be used in the learnin

On the first meeting of TELL Course with Mr. Tubagus Zam Zam Al-Arif, S,Pd. M,Pd. On Monday, January 20, 2020 , We discuss about CALL, TELL, ICT, and CMC. CALL (Computer assisted language learning) TELL (Technology-enhanced language learning) ICT (Information and Communication technology) CMC (Computer mediated communication) In addition we were also assigned to include all our assignments into a personal blog that we had previously created for the ICT In Education Course last semester, and enroll in the e-leraning site provided by the lecturer. Finally, we discussed a website that can help us learn English, especially in learning pronunciation,  youglish.com On this website we can enter the words that we want to know how to pronounce them correctly in the search box then this website will find videos from YouTube that in the video have the words we were looking for earlier, so we can find out how to pronounce the correct ones from the word.