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Rituals in school

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Hi, readers! Welcome back to my blog. Today I will talk about Rituals in school . I believe that all of you have some rituals in school. In Indonesia, every Monday school community include all of the teachers, students and the employs will following flag-raising ceremony. That is because the implementation of the flag ceremony in schools has been regulated in Pemendikbud Number 22 of 2018. You know what!? flag ceremony is important. it can even be useful for us. 1. Strengthening Unity and Unity To become a unified Indonesian nation, we must start from a small scale first. One of them is to unite with all members / community of the school, whether they are classmates, seniors, juniors, or teachers. 2. Accustom all school members to Discipline When attending / following the flag ceremony, we usually have to wear national uniforms, black shoes, white socks, ties, hats, and other attributes. Besides that, we can't be late either. During the ceremony, we are required to maintain calm, n

Teaching Listening and Speaking

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  Teaching Listening and speaking Hi, readers! Welcome back! It’s a nice day, right? Yeaps.. I hope all of you feel good with love and peace. Today we will discuss Young Learners Teaching listening and speaking . Speaking and listening is uncommon for all of us, right?! Maybe some of you want to know what is listening and what is speaking? Listening is the receptive use of language. It is the process of interpreting messages by using  context and one’s knowledge of language and the world. The development of listening skills has  an impact on the development of other skills (Rost 2002; Linse 2005)  Speaking is the active use of language to express meaning. Speaking involves expressing ideas, opinions or a need to do something and establishing and maintaining social relationships and  friendships (McDonough and Shaw 2003). Listening Techniques teach in Listening are: Illustration of Listening Tasks Paul (2003) said that students learn through sensing whole chunks of language, and thro

Reading and Writing for Young Learners

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Reading and Writing for Young Learners Reading and writing are dynamic and interactive process. They requires strategies and skills to make meaning and create printed text. For many, reading and writing also known as literacy. Different from speaking, writing and reading are not naturally have by children. Children usually learn to read and write when they on kindergarten through third grade.  Why we need to develop writing skills with young learners? Many young learners will not have fully developed their own L1 writing skills, and these strategies may not necessarily transfer to writing in English.   Writing allows young learners to practice new vocabulary and structures. It allows for a high degree of personalization and creativity. Beside that, It provides young learners to take risks and try out new language, with more “thinking time.”      Reading is a fundamental skill for learners, not just for learning but for life (Traves 1994) with reading being defined as “…the abili