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Journal review : Issues in Taeching English in a Cultural Context : a Case of Indonesia Hello everyone welcome back to my blog! In this blog, I will share the review of the Theoritical Background of the journal, here it is... Cultural Context for Teaching English   Culture The word ‘culture’ derives from the Latin word ‘colere’ and ‘cultura’ that means a process of harnessing or growing, of refinement’ (Wadham, Pudsey, & Boyd, 2007). Wadham describes that cultures has some components, there are symbols and signs, language, vakues and meaning, beliefs, norms, rituals, and material objects. These symbols and signs used by humans and humans are making meaning by it. 2.     Language Language is the signs and symbols that spread in a orderly ways. With language, people can distinguish the true and wrong thing by determined   many values as the standars and criterias for distinguish it, these standards and criterias are called norms. People use language in t

Journal review : Issues in Taeching English in a Cultural Context : a Case of Indonesia Hallo everyone, welcome back to my blog! In this blog, I will review the second journal. For the first I will review the introduction of the journal. Lets read :) There are approximately 6800 languages in the world (Brown & Ogilvie, 2009) and english is the most used language, especially in scientific researches. This proved with more than 90% of scientific journals written in english. There are 3 circle of english user in the world :  The inner circle user is someone who use english as the first language, the total inner circle english users are 408 million around the world.  The outer circle user is someone who use english as the second language, the total outer circle english user are 418 million around the world. The expanding cirlce user is someone who use english as the foreign language, the total of this circle are 306.9 million around the world. In country tha

Journal Review : The Influence of Listening English Song to Improve Listening skill in Learning Class Hello everyone, thank you for always read my blog..  After we reviewed the part of the journal on previous blogs, so in this blog I will share about the result of the journal.  According on previous blogs, it can conclude that listening english song give many benefits impacts, such as : Listening english song can improve listening skill on listening class. It is very important because listening skill must be mastered in english learning.  Listening skill as a basic skill for other skill in english learning.  Listening english song can add vocabularies. Listening english song oftenly will makes students get so many new words from new song that they have ever heard. Students also can learn about the meaning too. It also can increase students speaking skill because in speaking we must master many vocabularies.  3. Listening english song can make students have good