Dewie Gaptek: PAPERS PROBLEMS IN LEARNING ENGLISH

PAPERS PROBLEMS IN LEARNING ENGLISH

DUTY TO MEET COLLEGE ENGLISH I

Supervisor :

Drs. Mujiono, M.Pd

By:

Chairmen: Elenterius Hiburani(110401050083)

Member: Dewi Nadia Ihzana(110401050106)

UNIVERSITY KANJURUHAN OF MALANG

April 2012

FOREWORD

Our gratitude to Allah SWT who has given grace and his gift to us so we managed to finish this paper, entitled "PROBLEMS IN LEARNING ENGLISH"

This paper contains information about how to learn English effectively, the factors causing difficulty learning English and how to overcome the difficulty of learning English.

It is hoped this paper may provide information to us all about the problems encountered in learning English.

We realize that this paper is far from perfect, therefore, criticism and suggestions from all parties who are building we always hope for the perfection of this paper.

Finally, we say thank you to all those who have participated in the preparation of this paper from beginning to end. May Allah always bless all of this effort, Amin.

Malang, 24 April 2012

Compiler

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION...............................................................................

1.1 Background............................................................................................................

1.2 Problem Formulation............................................................................................

1.3 The Purpose of Writing.........................................................................................

CHAPTER II DISCUSSION......................................................................................

2.1 How to Learn English Effectively........................................................................

2.2 Causes Difficulties Learning English..................................................................

2.3 How to Overcome Difficulties Learning English...............................................

CHAPTER III CLOSING.........................................................................................

3.1 Conclusion.............................................................................................................

3.2 Advice....................................................................................................................

REFERENCES..........................................................................................................

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background

Student is one of the all-important factor. We realize that students who enter higher education come from very different backgrounds. As one of the main elements in the teaching, the students set foot in college with English language skills are very different from one another. They are studying in high school equipped with the means, facilities, human resources and adequate methods tend to have a better mastery of reading.

The motivation behind this student seems to vary. There is when learning English in high school really realize the close connection with the development of science reading mastery. Not infrequently those who see English as a difficult subject and then tend to stay away. There are also groups who are less wise to realize that even if they will pursue scientific disciplines outside of English they can not escape the need to read books in English in order to improve and develop this knowledge. Very difficult to understand is the view that English is not our language, and completed studies in college can be done without having to read books in English. In short, students as one of the main elements in a teaching background is one of the success or failure of reading a text book in college.

In the teaching of English is known to many kinds of methods. Several methods such as direct method, functional method, grammar translation method ever popular. Lately, a method known to the person who called Communicative Method which is considered more appropriate to wear. Patterns are applied to teaching English in high school is not currently focused on the mastery of reading training. In high school, in general, the exercises focused on completing the job matters of grammar, memorize and create short dialogues and answer the questions the teacher in the English language.

1.2 Problem Formulation

In writing this paper, the authors formulate some problems as follows:
1. How to learn English effectively?
2. What factors cause difficulties learning English?
3. How to cope with difficulties learning English?

1.3 The Purpose of Writing

The purpose of writing this paper is as follows:
1. To learn how to learn the language effectively Britain.
2. To find out the factors causing difficulty learning English.
3. To find out how to overcome difficulties learning English.

CHAPTER II
DISCUSSION

2.1 How to Learn English Effectively

The first thing you must understand in learning English is the fact that English is a foreign language for us people of Indonesia. Because it's not a lot of people who use it to communicate and the results are rarely spoken since then the brain will find it hard to get used to English, so we will be hard to learn but still in the record. That is, if we want to learn English is not impossible that you can easily master the English language.
Here are some strategies that can help us improve the ability to speak English effectively.

1. Remember that learning a language is a gradual process, not a process that occurs in 1 × 24 hours.

2. Define your learning objectives. What do you want to learn and why you need to learn it?

3. Make learning a habit. Get used to learn new things every day. Better to learn little by little gradually, rather than two hours a week to study hard.

4. Try reading the English text, be it newspapers, magazines, or any text, or watch movies or listen to English news. Do this every day or as often as possible.

5. Choose a good teaching material. However, you still need to learn to read, grammar (grammar), writing, speaking and listening, as a whole-language skills.

6. Make the process of learning constantly. If you are studying English for 10 minutes every day, the English will satisfy your brain's memory. If you study once a week, do not expect the language to meet the brain's memory.

7. Vary your learning process. Should do different things every day in order to assist the learning process of four language skills (read, write, see, speak). Do not become fixated on one aspect only.

8. Find a friend to learn. Learning a language in congregation is more fun and motivating double.

9. Choose the appropriate study materials with topics you're interested. This will make your learning process becomes more enjoyable, fun, making it more effective.

10. Connect your grammar knowledge with everyday use. Learning the grammar of a language will not automatically make you able to use the language. Actively practice what has been learned.

11. Open your mouth! Understand a language does not automatically mean your mouth will speak in that language. Try to speak in English with a loud voice. Initially might sound strange, but this is very effective for your learning process.

12. Be patient with yourself. Remember that learning is a process. It takes time and continuity. You are not the computer that has a button on and off.

13. Try to communicate in English. Master the grammar is good. But being able to communicate orally and in writing with others in English, it's nicer and more fun.

14. Take advantage of the Internet! Internet is a means of learning English is a complete exceptional, fun, and accessible.

15. "READING" get used to reading what you usually like

16. "LISTENING" to hear the song, conversational English, speech, etc.

17. "SPEAKING" talk with the exercise, train pungacapan said.

18. "WRITING" wrote the MIND-mapping method or CLUSTERING to understand first-langkh step process or in writing.

2.2 Causes Difficulties Learning English

Many say that learning English is not difficult, some are told to learn English very, very and extremely difficult. Maybe it depends on individual motivation, or it could be because we do not have the talent to be bilingual or multilingual, it could be. But the flavor-taste learning English is not as difficult as imagined, but not easy as expected.
Here are the factors that cause difficulty learning English as follows:

1. It's hard to remember the words.

Sometimes just a word that we get so easily vanish from our minds. Factornya is probably one of our concentration and memorization strength "we are getting older and older"

2. Different pronunciation of the text

We are very familiar with the pronunciation as written. This we never ask our teachers in the Aussie, he was too confused to answer. He can only say 'consult to your dictionary'. Apparently there are no rules that say how very standard English words were. Everything happened the way it is. Language is arbitrary.

3. Sound the same but different words were

This makes us doubt, where the words mentioned by the speaker, the sound of which is mentioned is probably different from what we understand, misalanya too, to and two; whether and weather; hear and here; buy and by; there and Their; witch and the which; threw and through. This will make us misunderstand what the speaker meant.

4. Can not distinguish a noun with a verb or another.

For example, the smoke can be a noun, can also be a verb. For example Smoke on the water (noun - quoted from diparpel, which means smoke) but if I smoke everyday (ready-verb, and its meaning is another, smoking), while smoking his own words in the English language that cigarette. So the funny thing is, I have students who make the sentence I am instead of everyday cigarette I smoke everyday.
There is another example, the accountant at the music store records1 records2 of the records3. (1) Record, (2) Notes / transaction, (3) tapes / recordings.

5. Speak fluently but can not write because they do not know or forgot.

Do not be surprised if there is a very fluent in English counting 1-10 is very fluent and smooth, but just told to write the words pake. Perhaps the true cuman simple one and a few other numbers. That's for those who are still beginners. But that was intermediate to advanced level was also had the same problem such as questionnaires and entrepreneurship words in English and others.

6. The same words often have other meanings are primarily used in a particular field.

For those who are still at the beginner level first patient would be asked for help translating from English to Indonesia or vice versa, because normally we would encounter many difficulties, especially when met with words that seem unusual, but when translated sentence context ndak connect with others. These areas need basic knowledge to be translated. For example, for the field of accounting have said marketable securities, if not careful can-can translate into the word SECURITY MARKET, but the translation is Securities. Just like the case of number 3: The accountant at the music store records1 records2 of the records3. Notes, records / transactions, cassette / tape.

7. Pronunciation of the letters in words are confusing.

I think there is no standard in English how to pronounce the letters attached to certain words, such as the letter U, the word is read PUT / u / as usual, but if the word CUT changed again saying so / a /, whereas the only P and C. diff confuse you? There is another example, the letter O in the word BOOK sounds / u / but the word BLOOD berbuny / a /, the word WOMEN sound / i /. Adalagi sound / f / could have on words containing the letter F such as FISH, but can the letters in the word enough GH, PH to the letter of the word PHASE and so on, and so on.

8. Can not read the existing pengucapkan symbol symbol-dictionary dikamus advance.

At the advanced level dictionaries the pronunciation of each word is given. This is very useful for us to know how to pronounce a word, including an emphasis on certain syllables. The problem is that we are still at the beginner level, or who are already at an advanced level, if we can not read the symbol symbol is also useless.

9. Find a word in the dictionary to make it one sentence of English usage in the English context (relying too much on the dictionary).

When making a few sentences in English, we often tripped up by words that we do not know what the English language, then we directly go to the dictionary and look for those words and we input into our sentences. We feel that we have very perfect sentence. But apparently when it is read by the teacher, we sentence containing the word wrong word. For example, to hear the words we use should HEAR the word we use is LISTENT TO or vice versa there are also other words of similar words such as word meanings in our language such as SEE, LOOK, and WATCH. Which is often a lot of wrong was when I did my homework translate the word DAILY. Many of the meterjemahkan, especially beginners, with the sentence I WORK MY HOMEWORK. Which should I DO MY HOMEWORK.

10. There is another irregular verbs.

This is what makes us not uniform in a sentence. The problem is that our language has no irregular verbs. If we want to say I EAT, no matter whether the time is now, past, or has occurred, or routines. The most we add aja, said IS, YESTERDAY / DAY WAS, IS, and ALWAYS.

11. The change from singular to plural irregular

Almost equal to the number 9. Usually when to make words plural just add-s behind these words, BOOK - BOOKS etc. But can not for the CHILD (to children), MAN (to men), WOMEN (to women), MOUSE (to mice) and some other words.

12. There was a sound in the English language diucapakan difficult because there is no sound in our language.

Fortunately the sounds that are not in the sounds of language are limited in number, such as sound-on-th and THINK THAT word, but even so many of us who can not pronounce it correctly a lot of replacing it with the sound / t / by combining it with the sound / s / to think and use words / d / to word that. But for a fluent Arabic he had no trouble with the sound of th in the same words with sound THINK ث and th sounds in the same words with sound THAT ذ. If in a given symbol english dictionary θ ð. There are also other, sometimes we are a bit lazy to pronounce the sound / v / and often replace it with the sound / f /.

13. There are some American English British English, Australian English is no longer among the New York, London, and Sydney ejaanya dialect was different and the writing is slightly different. There are people who prefer the English U.S., there is also a style like the UK, and some are like the Aussie style. It depends.

14. Have to memorize a lot of tense a lot of rules

More tenses - tenses again. Again more tenses. If there are 16 tenses ndak wrong. Said if people want to speak fluent English should be fluent tenses his tenses are tenses. Mumet indeed. Try banyangkan if we could memorize all the tenses's head outside but could not do as well as the communication champion. Yes, it is better than no good at all. Often, we understand tenses but does not know which one to dipake tenses when they want to express an idea tau want to make a sentence.

15. Want to be afraid of speaking English.

It is a psychological problem I guess, there are actually English is OK but not at all for fear of any communication and fear of ridicule, finally could not talk at all. There is a willingness to try to practice with the teacher or the English language that can be mistaken for someone else pretending to be afraid so Bule.

2.3 How to Overcome Difficulties Learning English

1. Before opening the dictionary, first try to guess what was the meaning of the word according to the context of the sentence. In addition to the dictionary is not preoccupied by this way can also help strengthen our memory
Try to make a simple sentence (oral and written) of the words that we just get it.

2. In addition to the dictionary, watching movies from DVD (the original) can help, as long as you set them subtitled in English as well, and it may also be secondary subtitle set in the Indonesian language, so there are two subtitle (subtitle secondary is only available if we watch a movie DVD's of the computer). Besides English lyric songs can also be helpful. If you frequently connect to the internet there is software that can directly display the lyric in the song title as long as winamp and artistnya written correctly (in our mp3 file). It can be downloaded.

3. To be able to understand the context in question does not rhyme be a problem for us. Try to understand the conversation context is a word for word but the whole context that the speaker was talking about.

4. If you make a sentence in Microsoft Word, the computer will be a bit much to help our English. His first language set to English (U.S.) or English (UK) and activate the spelling checker in the Option. If it is completed, any one English word that there will be a red line on the word, right click your computer will usually give the right word choice. Besides it can also search for synonyms of English words, the same way the word is right-click and then point the cursor to the Synonym.

5. Ask the person who is fluent, but if it is difficult to see there are other ways to use technology. Try to visit www.answers.com we can write down the words, the website provides the meaning of the words but the translation or definition in English, but it is the website also provides audio pronunciation aja click its picture loudspeaker.

6. Also had to learn the signs of time or tensesnya English. And are forced to understand the changes that are irregular.

7. For proficient English, tenses are very necessary, but do not become something that inhibits our spirit. In the normal communication is not all tenses should be involved. So keep speaking, wrong tenses are not a problem. Perhaps the most commonly used tenses and as a basis for control of the other tenses there are about five tenses are the Present Tense, Present Continuous Tense, Simple Past, Present Perfect Tense, Future Tense and Simpe. Other tenses are actually a combination of tenses are tenses. For example, Past Continuous is the union of Tense and Present Continuous Simple Past, and so does the other tenses combined.

8. With the first practice we can practice speaking English that we have learned, we both know our shortcomings so as to ideas for improv, train the tongue let me not speak English stiff, and train our listening.

CHAPTER III
CLOSING

3.1 Conclusion

How to Learn English Effectively can be done by remembering that the process of learning a language is a gradual process. Make learning a habit. Get used to learn new things every day. Better to learn bit by bit a continuous, rather than two hours a week to study hard.

The factors causing difficulties in learning English language support are difficult to remember the words, pronunciation is different from writing, sound the same but it turned out different words, eloquent to say but can not write because they do not know or forget and others.

How to overcome difficulties learning English actually comes from a willingness to know and want to learn. Without based on curiosity and without any motivation to learn we would be hard to learn English.

3.2 Advice

In the opinion of our group, we know that this country adalan country Indonesia. Before we learn the English language should be studied more in their own language is Indonesian. If later we have to understand and appreciate what is actually learned in Indonesian in our new study that discussed English is the language of another country. However, the English language is very important for us to learn in order to add insight and knowledge of the English language.