Dian Ariana Junaedi

SPEAK ENGLISH? “YES, WE CAN” Dian Ariana Junaedi (AG.1)             Is it difficult to speak English?             English is international language. Indonesia as one of the developing country deeply understand the importance of English in life. With that thing, the education curriculum in 2006 is expected that the students are able to communicate in English by mastering the whole skills. Actually, English has four skills. They are listening, reading, writing, and speaking skill. However, it is not an easy thing to master all skills. For the student the most difficult skill to be learned is speaking skill considering that English as a foreign language. That is a difficult thing to communicate or interact with the foreigner as native speaker grammatically through English. However, to improve the speaking skill in English for students is really needed the effective way...

GARBAGE, GO AWAY! Dian Ariana Junaedi (AG.1) Makassar ta’ tidak rantasa (MRT) Lihat sampah ambil (LISA) In Makassar, those slogans are very familiar as one of the efforts of Mayor in Makassar about the garbage problem that is uncontrollable increasingly. Generally, handling the garbage problem in Indonesia is serious problem. However, the uncontrolled garbage problem has many effects that can not be tolerated, not only in terms of environmental impacts such as environmental pollution, disturbing the aesthetics of the city, even can have a natural disasters, such as flood. The various effects of the garbage problem that are not solved seriously need to get the full attention of Indonesian government and the society as a whole. In other words, the garbage problem in Indonesia needs the effective solutions such as public awareness, rubbish management with recycling and applying the fines. The garbage problem in Indonesia can not be solved, if there is no public awareness ...

SUNGKEMAN? DOES IT DESERVE? Dian Ariana Junaedi (AG.1) Have you known ‘Sungkeman’? Culture is a way of life that is developed and shared by a group of people and passed down from generation to generation. In Indonesia, there are many different cultures obtained from a variety of different tribes, there are Betawi, Sundanese, Javanese, Dayak, Banjar, Bugis ethnic and so on. Each tribes has distinctive or unique features of their cultures. For instance, Java tribe has a cultural tradition that is 'Sungkeman' which means sitting crouch down and kiss the hands of the people who are older. This culture is the local culture, especially from the Java community that has a good meaning to strengthen the relationship each other. This culture perfectly suitable with the identity of Indonesia that always respect and appreciate older people, so it is good to be served as a national culture. In a few words, 'Sungkeman' as the local culture from Javaness can be promoted a...

OUTLINE Dian Ariana Junaedi (AG.1) I. Introduction : (Question) General Statement : Who does not know Iphone, Samsung, Sony, Nokia even Blackberry? Those brands of smartphone is now widely chosen by many people as a sophisticated device of communication even the teenagers. So that, it is not the strange thing, if the teenagers have a smartphone. Teenegers who should closely related with books in school, instead close with a smartphone. Now, the teenagers use smartphone in their daily lives even at the classroom. The classroom where is the place that we can get knowledge, but they abuse it by using smartphones. Thesis : Using smartphone disturbs the concentration of student in learning process in school. II. Pro Idea 1 : With the addiction of smartphone, teenagers prefer to pay attention for their smartphone which is more attractive than teacher’s explanation about a boring subject. It is really disturb learning process in school. III. Pro Idea 2 : With the f...