Guidelines for Communicative, Learner-centered Instruction

These ten guidelines will help you make communicative language teaching and learner-centered instruction part of your own instructional approach.

• Provide appropriate input
• Use language in authentic ways
• Provide context
• Design activities with a purpose
• Use task-based activities
• Encourage collaboration
• Use an integrated approach
• Address grammar consciously
• Adjust feedback/error correction to the situation
• Include awareness of cultural aspects of language use

 

Models of Language Teaching and Learning

Language instructors at the basic, middle, or in the university level are often in one of three situations:

• They are language instructors with experience teaching in their countries of origin, but little or no training in the teaching approaches commonly used.
• They are professionals in other fields who are native speakers of the language, but are not trained as teachers.
• They are graduate students who have extensive knowledge of language, literature, and culture, but are not trained as language teachers.

These instructors often must begin their work in the classroom with little or no guidance to help them appreciate which methods work, how, and why. In response, they may fall back on an outdated model for understanding language teaching and language learning.

Older model: Language learning is a product of transmission. Teacher transmits knowledge. Learner is recipient.

 

Australian Government funded scholarships for Postgraduate Students from Indonesia 2012

Study Subject(s): Various
Course Level: Postgraduate
Scholarship Provider: Australian Government
Scholarship can be taken at: Australia

Eligibility:
-Be an Indonesian citizen and not have permanent residence in Australia or New Zealand;
-Not be married or engaged to a person who is eligible to hold Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residence status, at any stage of application, selection, mobilisation processes or while on-scholarship in Australian;
-Satisfy Australian Government requirements for international student entry to Australia (health, character, etc);
-Not hold or have held a Government of Australia Scholarship to study outside Indonesia in the 24 months preceding the application – 24 months to be calculated from the of arrival back in Indonesia to the ADS application closing date;
-Be applying to commence a new course of study and not be seeking support through ADS for a course already commenced in Australia;
-Be able to take up the scholarship in the year for which it is offered;
-Be able to satisfy all requirements of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) for an AusAID student visa; and
-Be able to satisfy the admission requirements of the Australian university at which the scholarship is to be undertaken.

 

BEASISWA UNGGULAN KEMDIKNAS

I. PROGRAM PROGRAM ATDIKBUD RI DILUAR NEGERI
Beasiswa unggulan Atdikbud RI diluar negri adalah merupakan program pemberian beasiswa kepada lulusan terbaik dari berbagai institusi pendidikan di Indonesia untuk disekolahkan di institusi pendidikan di luar negri di negara yang terdapat Atdikbud RI.
Download keterangan lengkapnya: 

1. FORM PENDAFTARAN

2. BUKU PANDUAN

3. ALAMAT-ALAMAT ATDIKBUD RI

II.  PROGRAM D4/S1/S2/S3 REGULAR
Beasiswa unggulan adalah program beasiswa lingkup nasional dan internasional dalam rangka menyiapkan insan indonesia yang cerdas dan kompetitif sesuai dengan visi pendidikan nasional. Untuk keterangan lebih jelas dapat mendownload buku panduan dibawah ini :

 

BEASISWA BESWAN DJARUM

Beasiswa & Pengembangan Karakter

Djarum menyadari, pendidikan merupakan salah satu upaya untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat dan bangsa dalam mewujudkan masa depan yang lebih baik.

Oleh sebab itu, sejak tahun 1984 melalui program Djarum Bakti Pendidikan, Djarum memberikan beasiswa kepada para mahasiswa-mahasiswi strata satu berprestasi tinggi dari berbagai Perguruan Tinggi baik Negeri maupun Swasta di seluruh Indonesia. Untuk semakin menegaskan komitmennya memajukan dunia pendidikan, mulai tahun ini Djarum Bakti Pendidikan telah berubah menjadi Djarum Beasiswa Plus. Hal ini sesuai dengan arah kegiatan CSR PT Djarum di bidang pendidikan yang akan fokus dan identik dengan pemberian beasiswa.

Para calon penerima Djarum Beasiswa Plus tersebut diseleksi secara ketat dan harus memenuhi persyaratan IQ dan EQ sehingga mereka memiliki kecerdasan emosional dalam proses meraih prestasi.

 

SENTENCE VARIETIES

When writing in scope of paragraphs, the writer must always remember to construct understandable sentences. Anyhow, a paragraph is composed of sentences. To make the paragraph could be well-comprehended, the writer have to do some varieties. There are four major categories of sentence varieties, that is: 1) Sentence beginnings, 2) Sentence types, 3) Sentence patterns, and 4) Sentence lengths.

1.       The Sentence Beginning

A normal sentence in English (except the imperative) starts with the Subject, and then followed by the verb. Then perhaps by the object (if any) or adverb (also, if any). As a creative writer we should avoid the monotonous order S + V + (O) + (A) throughout the paragraph.

Let us compare the following sentences:

1. We will sit for the test next week, not next month. (S+V+O+A)
2. Next week, not next month, we will sit for the test. (A+S+V+O)

The variation of sentence beginnings can be done through using: