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The readers’ point of view As the reader, I conclude that the use of Yahoo Messenger in teaching English can increase students’ interest and motivation in joining English class. Besides, it was easy and enjoyable to use and free of cost, the students also have already registered on Yahoo Messenger, so they can log in directly and practice their English orally and written amongst native or non-native speakers of English around the world without feeling ashamed, and it is spontaneously will increase their English skill such as listening, speaking, writing, and reading. And this research focused on speaking skill in terms of Accuracy, Fluency, and comprehensibility and also the students’ interest.

Purpose The author’s main argument is about with using the yahoo messenger or not, the students should improve their speaking skills, and with this method, they can interest to join and active in speaking class. The reasons for the author’s main argument are, First, because of many students of English Department of University of Iqra Buru (UNIQBU) in Ambon, Indonesia, they cannot communicate with each other in English well, either in the classroom or outside the classroom. Second, Although English has become a compulsory subject in Indonesia from the fourth grade of elementary school up to university level, students are still poor in speaking English. Third, from the author’s first observation shown the poor level of students’ speaking skill caused of the low of their activeness and interest in joining English class especially in speaking. It can be proven by their attendance the subject less than 75%; they were frequently passive in practising their English such in the clas...

The author of the journal entitled “ Improving Students’ Speaking Skill through Yahoo Messenger at University of Iqra Buru” is Saidna Zulfiqar A. Bin Tahir. He is a lecturer in English Education Department, the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Iqra Buru, Ambon, Indonesia.  The audience in this journal is the students of second semester of English Department of University of Iqra Buru in academic year 2012/2013. 

After I have learned the Indonesian and English journal, I found some difficulties and easiness, and also the differences from the articles.  The difficulties when I read Indonesian journal is I need to found the article that has a really interesting title and content for me. If it makes me bored when I read it, so I'll not continue to read. While when I read the English article, from the title I felt really curious just from reading the title first because of there is so many new words or vocabulary that I need to know more to make my skill of English is improved. The lack of the Indonesian journal, there are some words that repeated in each part. In other hand, the English journal has so many new vocabularies that I didn't know before, sometimes it makes me cant understand well what is it means.  But, the Indonesian article has some advantages. Those are, it easier to understand because of we are Indonesian. It also makes us easy to read fast and re-read t...

Native and Non-Native English Language Teachers: Student Perceptions in Vietnam and Japan Ian Walkinshaw1 and Duongthi Hoang Oanh2 TITLE -           The major ideas addresses to Native and Non-Native Language Teachers. -           The participants are students. Their affiliation is teachers with the students. -           Yes, they were a special kind of group in the school between teachers and students. ABSTRACT -           The English language teaching industry in East and Southeast Asia subscribes to an assumption that native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) and non-native English-speaking teachers (non-NESTs). -           Native English-speaking teachers (NESTs) are the gold standard of spoken and written language, whereas non-native English-s...

Hello… welcome guys! Today, I would like to share you about my last article that was I posted the review. So, today I won’t tell you more about the article. I just want to compare what involved in my article which I found with the PDF of my lecturer which she gave last meeting in the class. The article entitled, “ Native and Non-Native English Language Teachers: Student Perceptions in Vietnam and Japan” that written by Ian Walkinshaw1 and Duongthi Hoang Oanh2, 2014 has a very complete characteristic of a good article. The good characteristic of article based on PDF of Critical Reading Journal Article, are: 1.       Of course it has a specific title 2.       It has an abstract, include keywords after it 3.       Next, it has an Introduction 4.       The method 5.       Results 6.       The discussion 7.    ...

hey hoo.... this night, I would like to share you about my experience of finding the article task from my lecturer. I found the article on the web named sage pub. It's so hard to found the real article. honestly, I make a mistake before this, what I downloaded was a journal, not an article. I realized if it's incorrect because I saw a little word on the top of the page. I really shocked about it because of I sent it to my lecturer, when I realized what's my fault, I soon search the real article and soon I send it to my lecturer in the WA. From my mistake, we can learn how to find the good article. I have some recommended website for you. but my favorite one is sagepub website. first thing you need to do is open the google ofcourse then you type www.sagepub.com after that you need to click article in the sagepub website. then you can search in the searching place with the topic of article that you want to search. thank you... hopefully it will help your task, good n...

The teaching industry of English in East and Southeast Asia follows the assumption that native English teachers (NEST) are the gold standard of spoken and written language, while non-native English teachers are low educators because they lack this inherent linguistic skill. But does this premise fit the linguistic learner's perspective? In this article explores the advantages and disadvantages of learning English from NEST and non-NEST. Highlights a number of perceived advantages - and disadvantages - on both types of teachers. Students see NEST as a model of pronunciation and use of the correct language, as well as being a repository of cultural knowledge, but also finding poor NESTs in explaining grammar, and their different cultures create tension. Non-NEST is considered as good as a grammar teacher, and has the ability to use the student's first language when necessary. Students find the interaction class with non-NEST easier because of their shared culture. Non-NEST pronu...

The issue of parity between native and non-native-speaker teachers needs to be foregrounded because even though the vast majority of English language teachers worldwide are non-NESTs, many non-NESTs in the ELT industry are sorely disenfranchised (see Cla rk & Paran, 2007, for the U.K. context). The issue is particularly salient in Asia, where native speakers are often the industry’s ideal model and American English the preferred variety (Young & Walsh, 2010). The current findings respond to questions about how these teachers are perceived by learners and what qualities they bring to the language classroom. Specifically, the data show that NESTs were valued as models for authentic, natural pronunciation, despite comprehensibility issues. Grammatical explanations were not viewed as a NEST forte (cf. Benke & Medgyes, 2005). Respondents appreciated learning about NESTs’ cultures, but also experienced a cultural and communicative gap in NEST-fronted classrooms. Also, NESTs ...