Teaching and Learning Cycle and the Implementation of 2013 Curriculum

Enhancing Report Writing through Teaching and Learning Cycle: An Attempt to Connect the Implementation of 2013 English Curriculum with Student’s Writing Ability

Written By: 

Putri Ayu Septiningsih

I.                   Introduction

Writing is one of the productive skills in which students of EFL produce the language as an input of their comprehension and learning. In this paper, the writer focuses on report writing of the students which is defined as a product of their knowledge toward the topic of one chapter. That is, in order to produce good report writing, the students should comprehend the lesson from the teacher; in this case the input they get through interaction is very important to them. As the input is very important for students’ writing ability, there should be a relevant approach to help them to obtain the input of learning as to increase their comprehension. That is, however, in teaching practice nowadays, many teachers of EFL practice the lesson without considering to a hope of our new curriculum (2013 Curriculum), which emphasizes on the scientific approach (observing, questioning, associating, experimenting and networking). The lack of modeling for example, or practice without involving all the students in learning, this might give an effect for them to obtain the language input. The teacher only comes to class, ask the students to read the textbook and ask them to do exercise. This way of teaching students are usually found in the teaching and learning nowadays. As a result, the report writing of students could not be enhanced.

POLYSEMY

In this essay, introduction and etymology of polysemy will be briefly explained,definition of polysemy, polysemy and ambiguity, examples of polysemy, how polysemy differs from homonymy, and the examples and the  problem of polysemy, ambiguity and homonymy  in the real life will also be explained and described.

Polysemy has widely known as a lexical semantics. It is largely unproblematic from the perspective of communication.However, many words become ambiguous because many meanings are represented by one word,and there are alsothe distinct words which people make it as one sense because of the same form. We have different interpretation toward the words because of ambiguity whichcouldlead to the humorous of using words or sentences in communication. That is, the terms of polysemy is closely associated to the term of ambiguity and homonymy, many words are the same but have multiple meanings. Words are different depend on where it occurs, or depend on where it is collocated (collocation).Before turning to the definition of polysemy, I would like first to start with the etymology of polysemy. 

How a Child Acquires First Language (Mother Tongue)?

First language is a language which human acquired during the childhood. Every language can be the first language as long as it is acquired during the childhood. If the learner can use more than two languages during his childhood, then he has two first languages (multilingualism). Otherwise, an American who learns Indonesian language for example, Indonesian will become his second language that is because English is his own language. Indonesian can also either our first (mother tongue) or second language. As an instance, if a person from Bimanesehas first language that is Bima language, then Indonesian becomes his second language if he can use the language after Bima language. A student who learns English from Bima has three languages; the first is his first language that is Bima because Bimanese is the language that he acquires during childhood, after his first language is established, he learns and acquires his second language that is Indonesian. What about English? English is his foreign language because in the place where he lives no one can use English in informal situation but in formal situation for particular purpose.