Midterm Task

        Nowadays, most people usually spend their time with various activities both indoor or outdoor one of those many activities is reading. It is a fun hobby or activity when people have done their work, have spare time or feeling lonely. People can throw all of their boredom by reading something as much as they want. As we have known, many reading materials that can be read for us such as; newspaper, magazine, article, journal, novel and comic. All of those materials are interesting to read but in this case, I would like to compare the two of those reading material, they are comic and novel.
      The novel is a literature work that consists of prose or written by the authors, usually novel is typically published as a book and contains someone’s life and events that ever happened at that age. The novel has many genres that can be imagined through the word by word. Usually, the length of the novel is 100-500 pages so it takes a long time for the readers to finish it. They readers can guess the story after they read the entirety of the novel. The comic is reading material that unleashes someone’s imaginations through images or illustrations. The creator usually write the dialogue in the speech bubble in each panel with some onomatopoeia or suffix sounds to support the situation in the comic.
     Actually, both of those reading material have many similarities. The comic is as an interesting book as the novel is that many people love and they are famous in the teenagers that have reading as their hobby. Besides that, the novel has a book form just like the comic has, both of comic or novel are entertaining the readers so they can build their imagination from the author’s written or drawing. The cover design of a novel is as beautiful as comic is that can attract people’s eyes to take them to read at home. But on the other hand, they also have differences. A novel has complex plots that explain the beginning of a conflict to the resolution from a chapter by chapter so it chokes readers and makes them hard to breathe. Meanwhile comic, often be found the comic tells simple conflict or a slice of life conflict with the illustrations, the conflict of the comic is not as complicated as the novel is. One novel takes a long time (one day or more) to finish less than the comic that can be finished in hours. The dictions of novels are more literate than comics are. It can be proved that novels give more explanations to readers and the comics do not have the same diction as novels. Comic usually gives informal conversation in bubble dialogue and if we try to find the formal conversations, we can find that dialogue in some particular theme of comic, but we knew that reading comic are different than novels. Comics train us to have more imagination meanwhile novels make us more know of the literature in the novel, people can understand the foreign vocabularies especially when reading the translation novel.
        In conclusion, comic and novel are good and entertaining reading materials. Both of them have similarities and differences that can be distinguished. If people choose one of them or choose both of them, it depends on their taste and opinion.

Improving Speaking Skill

Implementation of Model Cooperative Learning on English Speaking Skill

 

     In nowadays, using English becomes a common thing. Sometimes students underestimate English because it is not their mother language but on another side,  they think that mastering English is a necessary thing to do. In English, it has four basic skill, one of them is speaking skill. Speaking is an act of making vocal sounds or how someone expressing their thought or idea in spoken language (verbally). Some student cannot express their idea because they do not know how to speak well and it makes them feel down and ended up do not want to speak up anymore. To improve speaking skill, students need to implement Model Cooperative Learning this method can be used in Senior High School and university level. According to Johnson, Johnson & Smith (1998) Cooperative Learning (CL) is a teaching technique where students can make group discussion to help their process and achieve the goal.
          CL method in teaching-learning English skill as a foreign language is the strategy that emphasizes toward student's attitude in learning English, this method is also called as ‘learning together'. In this method, students will form small groups for example that group consist of two to five students in each group. They can share their thoughts, knowledge, ideas or arguments in learning the speaking skill. Students that using this method will understand easily because they can speak up with their friends (their member group) without any doubt when teacher give them a topic for speaking class and then they should discuss and help one another. Students can share their knowledge with their member group when one of them does not understand the topic, discuss the appropriate vocabularies or grammar.

 
      Using Cooperative Learning method, the teachers also have their role involves modeling, facilitating and coaching their students become active both of group work or individually. This method has many advantages in helping students' learning progress 1) It can encourage students be more critical to improve their speaking skills  for example when teacher asks them to give argument in debate among group discussion, 2) CL method makes students feel free to express their ideas when with their friend or when they speak to their teacher because this technique build their confidence up, 3) They can share their opinion to increase their fluency in speaking skill, 4) The students will be more active in search speaking materials or information about some case, 5) The atmosphere of class will be great and it can make the students  focus on their learning basic speaking skill.
       Thus, application of Cooperative Learning method is really beneficial both for the students and the teachers. CL method helps students to improve speaking skill through form group discussion because they feel free and becomes open-minded when they talk or discuss the topic of speaking with their friends meanwhile in using this method the teachers have their own role as the facilitator during the learning process.