My Effort to Improve My English Abilities
English is very important language, because it is an international language. English is life, so from the characteristics that English is life, I need to learn English continually. I have various method and activity to learn English. There are four factors which influence my effort to learn English.
The first factor is motivation. Motivation is very important, after I hear some story from Mr.Marsigit and Mr.Ilham it motivated me to learn English continually, because I want to be like them, study abroad. In the educational world, there is very competitive, so I think that I have to had more skill than the others. And if I have English skill, maybe I will get point plus, so I can win from the others in the competition to get job as teacher or lecturere.
The facilitator that support me on learning English is my lecturer (Mr.Marsigit and Mr.Ilham) on UNY. I can learn English with the supporting facilitation, for example there are recording to record my convertation wih native speaker from England, flashdisk to save all my data about English, and maybe laptop for watching movie in English and listening to what the actors say to sharp my English skill.
Learning English also can be from various resources, the resources can be coming from the internet, I can download many kind of English test especially vocabulary test. So I can improve my English ability. If there is no internet, I can learn by reading book in library or from magazine or newspaper, then I cut the article in English, I stamp it on my notebook and I translate it to Indonesian and I write it down so I can easily remember the words that I wrote on my notebook.
Learning English also pass through smartphone, I can download dictionary applications on my smartphone so I can easily searching the word that I don't understand without opened the dictionary book, which is so thick. The other way to improve my English ability are I can joined English course and also practice to speak English with my friend. So my English ability can be better than before.