My Reflection in Learning English

My third posting is about my reflection in learning English. A few days ago, I have a test in Bahasa Inggris II lesson to see how well my understanding in English about mathematics terms. Mr. Marsigit, my lecturer said the Indonesian word and I must translate it into English. It was so shocking for me even Mr. Marsigit already told me about that test before. And I only able to answer about 18 words from 50 words that given by Mr. Marsirgit. It was so disappointing because the limit to pass the test at least I should answer about 25 words or more. Because of this test I realize that I am not as good asIi though before. Sometimes I got lucky to answer about English test and now I know that my knowledge is still so less, that’s why I should learn more and more.

In this test I face a problem about the English language in mathematics term. I used to use English language in conversation and so rare use it on mathematics lesson. So that so many words that I’ve forget. The other problem is about the writings in English language is different from the spelling, but on the test Mr. Marsigit didn’t look too deep to the writing at least we have the same point with the true word it was good enough.

This test teaches me about my own reflection. Like Mr Marsigit said after the test, if we look into a mirror and see our reflection and we don’t like our reflection, we always choose break the mirror than change our face. It was so wrong because we can’t to be better if we do not see what we’ve done yesterday and make it better today. We should learn from yesterday and never do the same mistake again, but if we still do the same mistake again and again. That’s mean we never able to change our face to be better.

If we want to change our face to be better we should improve our competent and there are so many ways to improve it. One of the ways is making used the references, we can learn about a lot of things from those references. One of the ways to find a reference is using internet, because from the Internet we can see whole world without get there. And so many important information that we can used to improve our competent. Beside from Internet we can also looking for toefl CD from market and learn it by ourselves to improve our competent in English. But we should make sure that our references are a right reference because if we take wrong references it will be pervert us.

Our competent in mathematics is what really mathematics? We should able to answer this question so that we will able to improve our competent in mathematics. One of the answers is mathematics thinking always starts with our assumption. We can’t get our mathematics thinking without our assumption about mathematics, mathematics formula, and so on. With an assumption we will able to develop critical thinking to solve mathematics problem. The other answers are the concept of mathematics, we should understand the concept of mathematics, it will help us to understand what really mathematics. We can understand about the concept of mathematics by knowing the definition of current concept, then establish axiom, and make a theorem that we used to solving the problem of mathematics. The truth of mathematics is logic and constant, logic means that able to be understand from the reality and constant means there are no more contradiction about it.

I think that’s all about my reflection in learning English that day and I know I will change my face and make it looks better than break the mirror and ignoring my own reflection.