Digital Entertainment to Support Toddlers' Language and Cognitive Development

This current research aimed at seeing how English nursery rhymes and kids' songs as learning media support toddlers who are not living in an English speaking country (Indonesia) but exposed to the English language media during their normal baby-sitting times to learning English. To observe how two Indonesian toddlers learned English language in their early critical period of language acquisition through co-watching activity, Early Development Instrument which focuses on language and cognitive development domain with reading awareness and reciting memory subdomain was applied to observe two subjects after 15 month treatments (from age 10-24 months). The results show that the media and the co-watching activity are able to support the toddlers' understanding of the English words spoken and their ability to produce the intelligent pronunciation of those words. The interesting fact reveals that English which is normatively learned merely as a foreign language to most Indonesian people is no longer something far-off to the toddlers who are exposed to it through English nursery rhymes and kids' songs online since they are at the very young age. They naturally tend to be bilingual since at the same time they learn their mother tongue

Digital Entertainment to Support Toddlers’ Language and Cognitive Development

This current research aimed at seeing how English nursery rhymes and kids’ songs as learning media support toddlers who are not living in an English speaking country (Indonesia) but exposed to the English language media during their normal baby-sitting times to learning English. To observe how two Indonesian toddlers learned English language in their early critical period of language acquisition through co-watching activity, Early Development Instrument which focuses on language and cognitive development domain with reading awareness and reciting memory subdomain was applied to observe two subjects after 15 month treatments (from age 10-24 months). The results show that the media and the co-watching activity are able to support the toddlers’ understanding of the English words spoken and their ability to produce the intelligent pronunciation of those words. The interesting fact reveals that English which is normatively learned merely as a foreign language to most Indonesian people is no longer something far-off to the toddlers who are exposed to it through English nursery rhymes and kids’ songs online since they are at the very young age. They naturally tend to be bilingual since at the same time they learn their mother tongue

A STUDY OF THE VISUAL AIDS USED IN AUDITORY COMPREHENSION CLASS AND THEIR INFLUENCES ON UNOERSTANOING ENGLISH SPOKEN TEXTS

Understanding foreign speech is a complex actiVity involving a large number ofdifferei1t skills and abilities. r>.4ost peopk. who kuru English at~cond language, have difficulty in understanding spoken text They are good at other basic skills, but stitl have trouble in understanding what English native-speakers say in live situatlOntOrlthrough recording. Visual aids can maw.e listening easier SImply because they'attract learners' attention and help and encourage them to focus on the subject at hand. Based on the phenoml!na, the writer attempts to find om whether there is influence of visual aids on the unJerstandmg of English spoken text and whether thl;! usc of visual aids also giv'\!s effect on level of stress and attention, This study IS a quantitative study The data Ln this study were obtained from result of the respontkms· pr\;>tesL semantIc diftcrential scale questionnaire and posHest. The darn were taken from 50 respondenh that had tulfilled certain qualifications and divided into 2 groups, experimental and control group The exrx;rimenta1 bTfOUP was treated "",ith 'vIsual aids \vtnle the control group v,'as treated wilhout visual aids, The data are presented in tables, The listemng test data arc calculated stattstically whiie for the quesllOnnairc data, the ''1-Titer c{)unted the total perccntagtJ of each component aspect After analyzing the data, the ""Tirer makes the jnterpretation ofthe resuhs test and questionnair

WILLINGNESS TO COMMUNICATE IN TASK-BASED INSTRUCTION: ANALYSIS OF FLUCTUATION IN DYNAMIC SYSTEM

The present study aims at investigating the fluctuation of learners’ willingness to communicate in three communicative tasks: Dictogloss, Jigsaw-Game, and problem solving. We focus on learners’ L2 WTC in the classroom context seen from dynamic system theory. Six Indonesian undergraduate learners of English Department comprising linguistic features proficiency and motivational levels were elected as participants by encountering them in a three-subsequent-task performances. Concurrent assesment and Stimulated recall, and in-depth interview were used to investigate learners’ WTC during the task performances in the classroom interaction. The former used WTC-metric by asking the participants to provide scores on five-minute-interval of total 60 minutes task performances, while the two latters used video-taped as stimulus to confirm learners’ interaction in the classroom. The results reveal that learners’ WTC fluctuate during three task performances in conjunction with variables that interplay and interconnect one to another. Additionally, some factors provoking either learners’ willingness or unwillingness to communicate are discussed further

Book Review. Function And Meaning Of Ngusaba Gede Lanang Kapat Rituals In Trunyan Village

This book is the result of a historical, sociological and cultural study on the Ngusaba Gede Lanang Kapat ritual promoted by the Preservation Office of Balinese Cultural Values. In his forwards, the chairman states that this book is an effort to save the endangered cultural work and to load the local content in the areas where this work culture is alive and thriving (p. xi). Conducted in Trunyan, a village in which the daily life of the people governed by customary law, the result of the study presented in this book, as noted in the authors\u27 remarks (p. xii), provides a comprehensive understanding of Trunyan local genius as expressed in their customary rules, arts, rituals, and folklores