Kamis, 19 Maret 2009

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.

 

The Definition of Mathematics


Mathematics from the realistic mathematics is being separated become two parts. Its horizontal mathematics and vertical mathematics. Mathematics has a scrimption, its type, structure, and characteristics. We can separate mathematics into 2 parts. First, school mathematics or we can say university mathematics. In this case we can say that we are mathematics. And the second is applied mathematics, it means that mathematics as mathematics its self. There is a problem about how to get the object? We can get the object by two ways. First ways is looking for the abstraction of mathematics, this abstraction is different from abstract (not concrete). Abstraction on it means about the image that we get from mathematics its self. Second ways is idealism, idealism means consider that the mathematics’ object was what looked like.  

The structure of mathematics is deductive. There are the definitions, Axiom, theorem, rule, pattern, and so on, that compose logically and there are no more contradiction. The characteristic of mathematics is logic and consistence. The conjuncture is to think, to predict, etc. And convince is to communicate the result.

Mathematics has 3 aspects there are mathematics attitude, mathematics method, and mathematics content. Good attitude in mathematics means always have a question, to be consistence, to be critical, and so on. Good attitude will help us to know about mathematics more, with those attitudes we will easily learn in mathematics. Then, the method to learn mathematics. There is deductive, inductive, syllogism, logic, and prove. Deductive means from the general to the specifics, we can take the example from trapezium, we explain about the characteristic about it and then we go to more specific such as a square.

The inductive ways is from the specific to the general, we can take an example from a square and then we explain about a trapezium. Then, we talk about syllogism that takes conclusion from premises. It’s like A is a square, a square is one of trapezium, so we can conclude that A is a trapezium. Next is logic, it’s about the mathematics sentences. Mathematics sentences are like 3 is a prime number. The last one is prove, we can learn mathematics from proving a theorem. One of the examples is when we prove Pythagoreans theory.

The last aspects of mathematics are its content. We should jump into the content of mathematics so we can understand it completely without a missing part of it, because if we lost some parts we can learn it well.

There are many explanations about the definition of mathematics, even so there are so many opinions that describe about mathematics’ definition. And in my opinion mathematics is the mother of knowledge. Mathematics is the root knowledge, that’s why in university even we are in chemicals, physics, biology, economy, and so on we still learn about mathematics too. I think that’s all my posting for today, I am so sorry for the delays. I hope this is useful for our knowledge. I am sorry if there are so many wrong things here. Thank You.

Rabu, 04 Maret 2009

An Introduction to Bahasa Inggris 2

In February, 26th I got my first lesson about Bahasa Inggris 2. In that lesson, Mr. Marsigit, my lecturer asked us to make a blog for posting our work about "an introduction to Bahasa Inggris 2". He explained about a lot of important thing in learning English language.

There are some precondition to work in Bahasa Inggris 2, especially when we are doing a comunication in English.
There are:

1. Motivation

A motivation is so important when we learn about English, as know that motivation is give a big impact to our feeling to something. With a good motivation to learn about new thing, we able increase our spirit to get more and more information that we need about Bahasa Inggris 2. And if we have good motivation it will make us enjoy the lesson so that we can understand about English better than we have a bad mood.

2. Atitude
After we have a good motivation, we should have a good atitude. As we know that Indonesian country is a cultural country (negara berbudaya) so that make Indonesian people put an atitude in a high place. We as an Indonesian people and as a student of a university, we should have a good atitude to take care of our own culture. On the other hand, if we have a good atitude we can learn about English better because we will get respect if we respect the other too.

3. Understanding
Understanding is so important in learning English. Without a good understanding in English we can "get lost" about it. It's mean if we can't understand it we should looking for the right answer, if we aren't do that we will give a wrong answer for the rest of time. A good understanding can make us easily learn English, as we can see that learning English need understanding about the meaning, the spelling, the words, and so on. So that we should have good understanding and we should develop.

4. Skill
Everybody has a skill, but we have a good skill in a lot of sides. One of them is a skill in English, a skill will make us faster, easier and better learning in English. This is because we already have a good skill to get the right meaning in English. Sometimes skill is a gift to us, so we should develop it to make us get better in English. If we aren't develop our skill it will be burried because we aren't use it for a good thing such as learning English. But some of skills isn't gift, we should build it, it's mean we can have a skill if we want to build it and learn it too. So that we should develop it if you have a good skill in English and we should build a skill about it too.

5. Experience
As we know that experience is the best teacher. Experience will make us able to aware about what we will face in the future. We need a lot of experiences to be a lesson in a future, without an experience we will blind about information in English. And if we have an experience about a problem we will able to solve it better than without an experience before. An experience will teach us to know better about a lot of things that we aren't learn in university, but we need it too be a better future.



I think that's all that I can write for now.
I am sorry for a lot of mistakes there.


Regards,
Kadek