English II for Computer Program Academic Year 2011 AMIK Jabal Ghafur Room R.I.01 wednesday 8.15 am-5.

10pm

Instructor Office Location Office Hours Class/Credits Smester Email Address

: Mauloeddin Afna, S.Pd : AMIK jabal Ghafur Keunire : Wednesday 8.15 am-5.10pm & By Appointment : A, B, and C / 2 : II : mauloeddin@gmail.com

COURSE INFORMATION

Materials: Textbook(s) Required: Bobrow, J (1995): Cliff's TOEFL Preparation Guide, Bk & Cassette edition, The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), Cliffs Cassettes (Audio) . Brown, H. D. (1994): Principles of language learning and teaching. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall Regents Harmer, J (2007): The Practice of English Language Teaching, 4th edition, Pearson, longman, England Shymkiw, Larbalestier, (2007): Study English: IELTs Preparation, Australia Network, University Technology Sydney, 1st edition, INSEARCH UTS, printed copyright at Indonesia by PT. Gramedia Pustaka Utama __________________, (2007): Prepare for IELTs: Academic Practice Test, Australia Network, University Technology Sydney, 1st edition, INSEARCH UTS, printed copyright at Indonesia by PT. Gramedia Pustaka Utama __________________, (2007): Prepare for IELTs: General Training Practice Test, Australia Network, University Technology Sydney, 1st edition, INSEARCH UTS, printed copyright at Indonesia by PT. Gramedia Pustaka Utama __________________, (2009): Prepare for IELTs: skills and strategies, book one Listening and Speaking, Australia Network, University Technology Sydney, 1st edition, INSEARCH UTS, printed copyright at Indonesia by PT. Gramedia Pustaka Utama __________________, (2009): Prepare for IELTs: skills and strategies, book two Reading and Writing, Australia Network, University Technology Sydney, 1st edition, INSEARCH UTS, printed copyright at Indonesia by PT. Gramedia Pustaka Utama Suggested Equipment: A LCD projector is required within this course in order to present an interactive learning movie, and interactive English Language software that relate to materials 1

and students practice, this course will set up to the multi-media teaching environments where the students get privileges to interact with native English through software, video, and recording. Course Description: English Language for computer program is the special requirements for computer program that applied to computer application, within this class the students would learn how to interact within foreign language acquisition that apply in specific requirements for computer operation. AMIK is the Academy that holds the distribution of information and computer developments, so communication with foreign language is inevitable to be concern. With an underlying focus in our objective and target at AMIK, the course would concern to concentrate more on language in context than on teaching grammar and language structures. It covers subjects varying from accounting or computer science.

Student Learning Outcomes: 1. The student will be an active and engaged participant in discussions by analyzing, constructing and evaluating information presented within the textbook, external readings and class activities. 2. The student will engage in instructional material design by generating lesson plans and materials suitable for ESL/EFL instruction. 3. The student will describe and formularize sentences structure, reading text, demonstrated spoken and provided writing, as it relates to teaching and learning through empirically based assessments. 4. The student will engage within the multi-media teaching environments where the students get privileges to interact with native English through software, video, and recording.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS Assessment and Instruction: Attendance 10% Activities and Participation 10% Quiz 10% Midterm and Task 20% Final Test 50 % 2

Reading notes should comprise a short paragraph and may focus on 1) what you found beneficial from the reading particularly for pedagogical purposes; 2) personal/professional experiences to share with your colleagues that were prompted by the reading; 3) any questions about the reading (including what you may not have understood from the reading. The midterm exam is designed to help you review the terms and concepts that will be new to students comprehension account. The students will develop two lesson plans during the semester designed to teach aspects of course plan that interest you. The lesson plan includes 1) topic; 2) Student demographics; 3) Rationale; 4) Goals or Objectives; 5) Materials; 6) Lesson Plan Outline.

ACADEMY PROCEDURES and POLICIES

Academic Honesty Policy AMIK jabal Ghafur does not tolerate plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty. Conduct that violates generally accepted standards of academic honesty is defined as academic dishonesty. "Academic dishonesty" includes, but is not limited to, plagiarism (the appropriation or stealing of the ideas or words of another and passing them off as one's own), cheating on exams or other course assignments, collusion (the unauthorized collaboration with others in preparing course assignments), and abuse (destruction, defacing, or removal) of resource material. Student Conduct All students enrolled at the Academy shall follow the tenets of common decency and acceptable behavior conducive to a positive learning environment. (See Code of Student Conduct from Student Guide Handbook).

COURSE OUTLINE 3

(Schedule is flexible and subject to change when it is necessary under fixed condition) The first meeting is about Course Introduction in English II The second meeting is about the paragraph in English Paragraphs consist of one or more sentences. The start of a paragraph is indicated by beginning on a new line. Sometimes the first line is indented. A written work, be it an essay or a story, is about an idea or concept. An essay explains it; a story narrates it. To help the reader understand and enjoy it, the explanation or narration is broken down into units of text, the paragraph. In an essay, each paragraph explains or demonstrates a key point or thought of the central idea, usually to inform or persuade. In fiction, each paragraph serves to advance the plot, develop a character, describe a scene or narrate an actionall to entertain the reader. All paragraphs support each other, leading the reader from the first idea to the final resolution of the written work. The third meeting is Quiz time for class There are ten question items that shared to enumerate students progression to overcome simple paragraphs composition in the class, this quiz as warming up to foresee students ability within foreign language situation class. The fourth Meeting is about the paragraph composition in English Look! Put simply, that's the watchword of this project and the motto of all good writers: pay attention to the details and show the reader what you mean. Specific details create word pictures that can make writing more interesting and easier to understand. In this project, you will practice organizing those specific details into an effective descriptive paragraph. Guided by the steps below, you will begin by selecting one of your belongings and then drafting a list of details that describe it. Next, you will put these details into sentences and organize the sentences into a paragraph. Finally, you will revise the paragraph to make sure that it is unified and clearly organized. The fifth meeting is about reading, encounter in problem how to adapt in L2 Reading4

For many learning-disabled students, reading comprehension is a major problem. There are mainly three causes for poor reading comprehension: 1.) the person has a language problem: Language plays a vital role in reading. Its role in reading can be compared to the role of running in the game of soccer or ice-skating in the game of ice hockey. One cannot play soccer if one cannot run, and one cannot play ice hockey if one cannot skate. One cannot read a book in a language unless one knows that particular language. If a students knowledge of English is poor, then his reading will also be poor, and naturally also his reading comprehension. 2.) The foundational skills of reading have not been automatically found: When a person attempts to speak a language in which he has not become automatic yet, he will necessarily have to divide his attention between the content of his message and the language itself. He will therefore speak haltingly and with great difficulty. As Yap and Van der Leij explained in the Journal of Learning Disabilities, if the skill on the primary task is automatically found, it will not be disrupted by concurrent processing on the secondary task because automatic processing does not take up attention resources. If, on the contrary, the skill is not automatically found, it will be disrupted by concurrent processing of a second skill because two skills are then competing for limited attention resources. This also applies to the act of reading. The person, in whom the foundational skills of reading have not yet become automatic, will read haltingly and with great difficulty. The poor reader is forced to apply all his concentration to word recognition, and therefore has no concentration left to decode the written word, and as a result he will not be able to read with comprehension. 3.) The reader is unable to decode the written word: The decoding of the written word is a very important aspect of the reading act. Without being able to decode the written word, reading comprehension is impossible. This explains why some children can read without understanding what they are reading. The sixth meeting is about argumentation in reading comprehension to computer program. Reading Comprehension is noun modifier. It consists of two words, reading and comprehension. The researcher attaches the definition into 5

two parts of paragraph. They are reading and comprehension. Reading comprehension is essentially the ability to understand what has been read. There is little point in being able to pronounce the words on a page if the words mean nothing to you. There will be a correlation reading when people probably read "Snip tops are find bugle" because people can decode the sounds in the words, but people cannot comprehend it because two of the words are nonsense. People with good reading comprehension use several strategies that help them understand the text. Reading is an action of person who reads. Furthermore, in Colombia Encyclopedia, reading is defined as process of mentally interpreting written symbols. Facility in reading is an essential factor in educational progress, and instruction in this basic skill is a primary purpose of elementary education. Comprehension is an exercise aim that improving or testing one understands of language. In addition comprehension also defines as the act or action of grasping with the intellect or it also known as understanding, moreover, comprehension also defines as the logical sum of meanings and corresponding implications inherent in a term. The word comprehension is translated as a word acknowledge of materials, in this research, that means this word is as sign of acknowledge or understand the materials. In sort, the word comprehension is perfect word to be given after reading, because comprehension is a "construction process" because it involves all of the elements of the reading process working together as a text is read to create a representation of the text in the reader's mind. Comprehension is invisible. Its definition, its process, and its product continue to be elusive. Cognitive psychologists, English literature professors, and reading methods professors debate these issues, resulting in a confusion of materials and methods for college developmental reading instructors. Cognitive psychologists, Thorndike, in Reading in context as mentioned by Brosnan, Brown and Hood, argue that comprehension is the result of innate intelligence; a student is just born "smart." This view is related to Thorndike's statement that comprehension 6

is the manipulation of memories.

The professors in college English

departments perceive comprehension along the lines of literary analysis. Their major debate is the source of interpretation. At one end of the continuum are those who feel the analysis should focus on the writers objective.

The seventh meeting is Review Progression test There are twenty question items that shared to enumerate students progression after six meetings. The eighth meeting is Midterm time Midterm test or UTS (Ujian Tengah Semester) is conducted to enumerate the students mark within the mid-semester, this test is held for compulsory subject target within class assessments systems. And within this meeting, the task work is delivered by the behalf tutor. After series of eight meeting, the further meeting will simulate students within the authentic material application for series of topics that is adopted from IELTS preparation book by Shymkiw, Larbalestier, (2007). Here, the texts also presented with grammatical structures and its components. The ninth meeting is about tourism This section is about the endangered species that affected by ignorant tourist. The main topics subdued that crocodile from Australias Northern Territory face threat from tourist attraction. Within this meeting the students will watch a video that is played, this will help their listening comprehension because of motion pictures will help them to gain the information about the topics that been discussed. Then, the student will also acquire pronunciation pattern and practices it with the tutor that relied on video presenter which is native Australian. Within this section, it is presented the grammatical roles about relative pronoun that, which, and who, and its application in sentences. The tenth meeting is about ADHD 7

ADHD is Abbreviations and Acronyms in English. Through ADHDs are generally not used in formal writing with the exception of some scientific or technical writing, it is important of some scientific or technical writing, it is important to be familiar with some of the more common ones. These could occur in both spoken and written English. If they are used in formal writing, it is necessary to reference them correctly. This part noted to focus on the more common abbreviation and acronyms, and their form. E.g.: RAM Random Access Memory HDD Hard Disk Driver IBM International Business Machines And so on.

The eleventh meeting is about Sentence Structures An important aspect of formal writing is the appropriate use of sentence structure to convey ideas clearly and effectively. It is necessary to have a variety of sentence structures, drawing on the use of coordinate and subordinate conjunctions to from both compound and complex sentences. Sentences can express both simple and complex ideas. Connecting ideas in sentences correctly are important because this makes the relationship between ideas clear and meaningful. A sentence must have a subject and a verb, and is also referred to as an independent clause. A dependent clause also contains a subject and verb, but is not regarded as a sentence because its meaning is incomplete. The sentences also constructed from these following part, as follow: 1). Coordination, 2). Subordination, 3). Conjunction, on behalf part of: and, but, or, so, for, yet, and nor. The twelfth meeting is about the recounting the past forms. Recounting a story, marking a report, producing task report paper is to write or talk about something, which has happened in the past. It may be an event from life, parts of projects, job apprentice, or another form of description.

When describing events which already occurred in the past tense verbs and time expression or word which order past events or refer to points of time in the past, in order of occurrences.

When recounting the past, whether recounting the past, whether its writing a sequence of events, it is important to establish clearly relationship between different past actions.

The thirteenth meeting is about phrasal verbs Phrasal verbs are characteristic of informal language, and are commonly used in spoken English. Though they do not look difficult, they can be problematic for learners of English because of their construction and idiomatic meanings. Phrasal verb consists of a verb followed by a preposition. This from a new verb, one sometimes related to the original verb, but sometimes not, There is no pattern to the meanings the take, and they often have a number of different meanings. Because phrasal verbs have more than one meaning and because the meaning may not necessarily be understood from the meanings of individual words, it is important to consult dictionary when learning the meanings of phrasal verbs. It is helpful when building your vocabulary with phrasal verbs to write sample sentences as well as showing these verbs in context. The fourteenth meeting is the second progression for 9th to 13th meeting. There are twenty question items that shared to enumerate students progression after five meetings. Within this meeting, Students are encouraged to elaborate their respond about the materials that has been presented

The final will be held by academic affair that control the schedule for conducting final requirements, it is prepared to overcome the students feedback after 12 rows meeting with 2 rows of progression for 2 credits. There are twenty question items that shared to enumerate students progression after class finished in one semester.

Sigli, 14 April 2011 Dosen,

Mauloeddin Afna, S.Pd

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