INTRODUCTION

ASSIGNMENT:

Translate the text below into Indonesian by handwriting.

INTRODUCTION

English is a compulsory subject to learn as it is a university course.

English is developed into:

General English

Specific English

English has four skills to be developed:

Reading

Speaking

Writing

Listening

Reading is an interactive process that goes on between the reader and the text, resulting in comprehension. The text presents letters, words, sentences, and paragraphs that encode meaning. The reader uses knowledge, skills, and strategies to determine what that meaning is.

Reading is a process of doing an activity by reading and comprehending the text with the explicit and implicit information.

Speaking is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves producing and receiving and processing information (Brown, 1994; Burns & Joyce, 1997).

Speaking is a complicated action of making vocal sounds with its meaning. Speaking means to converse, or to express one's thoughts and feelings into spoken language by implying information.

Writing is a form of communication that allows students to put their feelings and ideas on paper, to organize their knowledge and beliefs into convincing arguments, and to convey meaning through well-constructed text.

Writing is a medium of human communication that represents language and emotion with signs.

Writing is a process of elaborating ideas and thoughts in a written form by representing the language features.

Listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process.

Listening skill is human ability to hear and record information or messages into their memory.

MY TIPS for YOU to IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH SPEAKING ABILITY

1.   Think everything in English. The important thing is not the language itself BUT how you think about it

2.      Ask English questions to yourself

3.      Flashback your performance in front of mirror

4.      Speak is the focus, not the grammar

5.      Be aware of tongue twisters

6.      Listen and repeat frequently

7.      Read some sources for exercise

8.      Watch English movie

9.      Sing English songs

10.   Use the easy words you remember