Their reason why they do as the writer explained before is the
parents are worry about their kids’ future. They think that if their children
cannot master English, they will face some bad conditions. They are they cannot
compete in getting the work, they cannot comprehend the information listed in many
mass medias, they illiterate with the English written form, they cannot operate
machines, enhancements, instruments used English inside.
The first reason of the parents who are afraid if their
children cannot understand English is interesting to be explained in detail. It
tells that the parents will not the children are difficult to get the job. They are aware that getting the work is
difficult enough in recent era. The candidates of workers must have some
abilities. The requirements of the best employee based on the some owners of
the company are they who can speak and write English well. Many companies or
work searching committee sentences that the people who fond of working must
have high scores in TOEFL or TOEIC nowadays. TOEFL means Test of English as a
foreign Language and TOEIC means Test of English for International
Communication. The people who have joined these tests must have certificates
with inserted scores. As higher as the score gotten, as fast as they work in company
that notices someone English skills.
The others reasons of the parents why they are afraid if the
children do not know English are understandable reasons relating to the
development of technology. The parents won’t see the children cannot appreciate
the information of many things written in English provided in mass medias. In
addition, many tools have been using English lately, so the children are hoped
to be able to operate and repair it.
To avoid the bad effects explained earlier, the government of
Indonesia “obliges” the students master English both spoken and written. One of
the efforts to connect it, the Ministry of Education in this country has
revised English curriculum in many times for elementary school up to university
level students. The curriculums known by 1994 curriculum, competency based
curriculum, and the newest is curriculum 2013. These curriculums purpose to
help the students to understand and comprehend English easily. Furthermore, it always
sends teachers and experts to go abroad to absorb the teaching and learning
process in other countries. The other ways are strengthening the rules of the
past examination, making English as local subjects in Elementary schools, giving
fund and facilities to non formal English education, and many other efforts
that has relation with improving the quality of students’ English skills.
In contradictory, based on the analyses and the experience of
the writer, the government efforts mentioned above haven’t met success yet. It can
be seen in the first English class that being taught by the writer. They
commonly come from the fresh graduation of senior high school students and they
must be able to master English based on the government point of view. When he
asked the questions, “how long have you been studying English?”, some of the
students answer that they have been studying English for 9 years. The remaining
are 12 years. Then he gives other questions, “Can you speak and write English
well?” Almost students in his class give “quite” answer. Quite means “NO”
He writes some factors why they still cannot unite with
English whereas they study it at least 12 years. The factors obtained from the
students themselves. They said that the following factors influences why they
do not understand English; the laziness, habitual, environment support, the
style teaching of their English tutor, confidences, English is not their
purpose.
This condition inspires the writer to share the simple ways
if someone want to master English. Those simple ways are 1. practice, 2. practice and the last is practice.
Although this idea has same alphabets but it has great influence to people in
enhancing English.
The first practice means the words that are always
spoken and heard repeatedly before can be guessed easily. For example, when he
asked to his students, “what is pintu in
English?” They answer “door” instantly. Same as when the writer questions them,
“ What is Jendela in English? They
can translate it fast. It describes that some words that is always practiced or
repeated can be known even without thinking first. In contradictory, when the
writer asks the meaning of Keriput,
Gerimis, berkelap-kelip, they
confuse to answer it because those words are seldom to be practiced.
The second practice goes to the habitual that is always
practiced. The writer thinks that everybody in school ages knows and can tell
the five items of Pancasila without thinking hard. It is because it usually
mentioned in flag ceremony even once a week. The other condition is moslem
always read Yasin verse in holy Qur’an.
They can remember this verse one by one although they read at least once a week
(Thursday night).
The last as the third
practice can be applied on the condition. For example, someone is studying
and the electricity is extinct in his home. When it occurs, he is in bedroom.
He decides to go to kitchen to find some enlightening things, such as match or
other enlightens tools. On the way to go kitchen, the writers guess he can
imagine and predict the way to go kitchen from his bedroom without crashing
stuffs. It happens because he has seen many
times the location of each stuff in his home. The writer predicts that this cannot
be achieved by someone doing the same if he is the new people or stranger of
one home.
As the conclusion, the writer believes that something that is
always practiced many times or repeatedly can drive people to comprehend something
easily. The same as English, if English
is always practiced every day, it will be understood soon by someone. Khalifah
Ali bin Abi Thalib said, “ You won’t be
expert of science, if you don’t read the book at least 40 times”.
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