“Yakin kamu mau jadi guru?” Itulah reaksi yang kerap kali kudapatkan ketika kuutarakan cita-citaku. Di masa seragam putih abu, profesi yang didambakan kebanyakan teman seusia adalah dokter, insinyur, polisi, ataupun arsitek. Guru tentulah bukan salah satunya. Santer pula terdengar bahwa menjadi guru bukanlah profesi yang bisa menghasilkan pundi-pundi berisi emas
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Introduction The article “Being a woman is a paradox” written by Mateus Yumarnamto describes that being a female, especially in Indonesia, has to live in two worlds. First, struggling for freedom, means challenging men’s power. Another one is living in peace, means accepting the fate that women’s place is in a subordinate position in society. Indonesian feminists are aware of that disadvantaged condition. Definitely, they struggle for the first points by not insulting the most sensitive factors of the male mentality: the feeling of a superior. They do not declare to be
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Summary A film titled “Miss Congeniality” tells about a FBI agent, Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock), who is very masculine. Although she is a woman, she never does like woman commonly do. She never brushes her hair and the way she laughing and eating is definitely not like a woman. The
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Approaches to Learning for Preservice EFL Teachers Leyla Tercanliouglu – Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey   This paper is a report of a research entitled “Approaches to learning for Preservice EFL Teachers” It is conducted by Leyla Terconlioglu from Ataturk University, Turkey in 2001 which is available at http://www.nceltr.mg.edu.au/cgi- (online). This
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Nowadays, pros and cons towards the implementation of national examination, known as Ujian Nasional (UN), are widely generated. In discussing whether national examination is needed or not, it is necessary to examine a number of arguments, both supports and against. The controversy in this field has to be understood because
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  Today the word ‘acceleration’ continues to generate controversy. Every one sees acceleration from different point of view. Some say that acceleration has lots of negative effects so that it is not a good way to hold it. But, is it totally true? Is there any solution so that acceleration
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In his writing – Research, the Teacher and Classroom of Tomorrow -, David Nunan investigates the importance of research for teachers of language and for language classroom of tomorrow. He divides his paper into two parts. First, he analyses the latest issue in research and shows that research is the
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