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Hello, Mr. Udi and friends, welcome to my page! Get to know me~ Name: Naura Niken Berliana NIM: 2223230111 Class: 3B

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"Our treks were not made together We've only made an encounter.”

― Ziggy Zezsyazeoviennazabrizkie, Continuum

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The Last of Us.

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Well, would you look at that.

Gross, truly.

Do not give ANY money to this person. Always double check. Every single ask I've gotten like this has been a spam bot.

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World Englishes

In a world with so many diversities, we need a language to unite people. And as per now, English holds a crucial role to be a language that connect people accross the globe. People that born with their first language is not English are studying English to connect more with other people, and to strive to work in an international working environtment. The amount of many English speakers shows that English is a lingua franca (a language that use globally to help people communicate with each other).

But, even if there are many English speakers, the people who are not born with English as their mothertongue or a country that use English but with an enrichment from their cultures, may be confused when they are interacting with a native English sepaker.

This could happen because they share differents cultures, customs, and values. This what makes English speakers interesting. It is how they preserve their cultures in English that intrigued me, even if they are speaking English, they also brought up their cultures in it. This shows how much they love their roots.

The case like this can be seen from Singaporean English, the way Singaporean speak English maybe not differ at first with the native American. But, do you ever heard native American adds leh, lah, meh in the end of their speech? I never heard any. Well maybe meh has the same spelling from The American meh slang, but it's tottaly different!

A case like I mentioned above is an example to how various English is. I can totally agree that English is one, but the enrinchment from cultures, places, folklores, myths, dances, are what made English is plurals!

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Think Fast, Talk Smart: Spontaneous Speaking

Hello, everyone~ In this post, I'm going to discuss on how to be a spontaneous speaker. Being spontaneous in speaking could benefit us to be creative within a limited time and train us to give our best under the pressure.

A nervous speaker always drewback from the audiences and they lack body language, it will make the audiences feel uncomfortable. And that's why we need to practice our spontaneous speaking so we won't be surprise if we were asked to perform an impromptu speech.

The pressure that we may feel when we deliver a spontaneous speaking can come from ourself. That's why, the first thing we must do is to deal with ourself such as anxiety feeling. It may be easier to said than to do, but we can do it little by little by greet our anxiety and call ourself first. We must feel confident to shoo away our anxiety by acknowledging it.

Some practices with tongue twister also helpful to reduce anxiety and became more relax, tongue twister helps us to focus on ourself and be present in the moment. "Sometimes, we worry too much about the future." as the speaker said, thus by having mini exercises like tongue twister, shout the name, and giving imaginary gift, and spelling the name will makes us less nervous and defensive.

By organizing our thoughts, we could make a structurized speech so our focus still in the place. The speaker have some tips on how to structurized our speech, first we can identify a problem then find the solution and tell the benefits from it. Structurized speech is easy to understand rather than a speech that has no focus in it.

To sum it all up, being a spontaneous speaker could benefit us to feel more confident when we were asked to do an impromptu speech. Spontaneous speaking also trained us to be creative under the pressure.

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Digital Literacy and English Education

In an era where technology is used everywhere, many of us is expected to be familiar with it. Especially as a Gen Z, our life is inseparable with internet and technology.

In digital literacy, it refers on how someone's ability to understand, read, write and perform a great understanding of technology in real life.

In English Education, our awareness of technology is needed to understand how it works. While digital literacy is important, english skills also has a big part to be litterate digitally. We can't just ignore these two things in this fast movng world.

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Effective Communication Skills

Human has languages to communicate with each other, but not all people could communicate well. Effective communication is a way to help us improve how we communicate with other people. Being an effective communicator benefits us to be a diplomacy in everyday life. Not only that, but also an effective communication skills is needed for working with people, this skills will help us to have a great opportunity ahed.

To have an effective communication skills, we can start by little. By practicing with friends and asking for advice will help. There are also tips to became an effective communicator:

Use simple words

For some people, using big words may made them feel proud, but it's not always necessary in our speech. Try using simple words instead because it will reach the audience better.

Avoid Fillers

Fillers happened when we don't know what to say next, we can Avoid using fillers by making a speech draft and try to remember every points from it.

Use body language

It's the key points to deliver an effective communication, the use of body language is to make the audiences felt included.

Keep up your smile

And the important thing is to keep your smile to live up the atmosphere in the room. :)

All in all, to have an effective communication skills benefits us in our daily life and work life. It's a basic skill that we must learn and apply. In learning it, it may be hard, but start to do a small step. :)

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Mastering The Art of Everyday Diplomacy

Diplomacy is something that usually happened in international forums, but without we realize it or not, our everyday life is also a part of diplomacy. If we talk about our everyday life, we must think about the people in the society. Modern society is not a homogen, but rather consists of different races, religion, educational and financial background. With that said, conflicts often occured due to different point of view and opinions. Thus, we can use diplomacy to settle things up.

To be a good diplomat, means we must have a good strategies and calmness within ourself. Being a diplomat needs a good speaking skills too. Which means, what we are going to say must be mindful to other people's feelings. We also need a strategy to communcate with other people, how to communicate with them without offending them.

To sum it all up, we can be a diplomat in everyday life. And diplomacy is not only limited to international forums.

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Students' and Lecturers' Perceptions About Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Hello everyone! In this post, I want to tell you me and my friends experience when interviewing students and lecturers of English Department.

We learned so much from this interview, we do know the basic how to interview people. The does and don't and also we gained new insights!

So, my group interviewed 9 peple in total, 5 students and 4 lecturers. Overall, their perceptions about AI is that AI is great to help with working on something and they really like it because it made their life easier. But, they also argued that we can't just rely our works 100% on AI because it will make us lazy.

I'm 100% agreed with most of the answers. As for me, a student and a future teacher, I think AI can help us to do many things but we have to set boundaries so that AI couldn't take over our life. What I mean is that we didn't leave our works to AI all the time and ask AI to do our works fully. We have to be critical and skeptic, because I believe, the basic problem solving and decision making is what makes us as a person valuable.

After that, we were asked to do a presentation, and after hearing from other people perspective, it's really interesting to know that someone said AI is a big help for an accompany to learn English, because machine won't judge like people! i think, it's a fascinating mindset~

Because before, i only think AI is just AI and it will be bad if we overusing it, but it depends on the people! All in all, we have to be conscious to use AI so it will not much affect us on negative ways but rather the positive ways! Dank je wel!

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English Teachers' Perceptions About Multilingual English

Hello, I want to tell my experience during Multilingual English group project~ The photo above is the documentation from our interview with Mrs. N via Google Meet.

Other than Mrs. N, we also interviewed Ms. R & Mr. B about their perception on Multilingual English. Personally, I gain so much insights from the 3 interviews, at first I can't grasp the concept of what Multilingual English is. But, during the interview, the respondents explain their reasons clearly so I slowly understand that the use of multilingual English is inseparable from our daily life.

Like what Ms. R stated in her interview, "Multilingual English is when a person be able to use English with other languages at the same time." I already know the concept of code switching and code mixing, so I think when we do code mixing and switching, it's still a part of Multilingual English. As for the langages theirself, Ms. N stated that "Multilingual is not limited to only English and Indonesian, but when a person speak Indonesian and Sundanese, it's still count as Multilingualism." This also support the concept of Multilingualism in general.

The use of Multilingual English or Multilingualism in general is great to apply, like when we speak Indonesian and Sundanese at the same time, I think we can still communicate with other people and preserve our culture.

Though I have a little worry when making the power point to present in front of class, but my friends discussed about it in Group and we also read the article regarding the theme, it's a little bit complex, but we managed it to give our best explanations in class.

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Multilingualism and Its Impacts

Do you ever heard of Multilingualism? Or, do you perhaps claim yourself able to speak more than one or more languages? Then, you are one!

So, for my second meeting, we get the chance to explore this material deeper. And from what I learnt from the materials that are given, being a Multilingualist has many benefits. It improves our explicit and implicit memories.

Being a Multilinguist can boost our confident, I have experienced it beforehand that I feel proud of myself because I am able to speak more than 1 language. Not only it satisfied our ego, but also improve our social life. There are many opportunities ahead to be friends with other people, and I'd like to call this as Networking, it's crucial for our future career.

While being a Multilingualist, it doesn't mean that we left behind our heritages and roots. We can introduce our cultures to other people instead, and in return we get to learn other people's cultures too. Even though when acquiring new languages, there are obstacles to face, but to believe in oneself is what we must hold onto.

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The First Academic Speaking Class

Hello, everyone~ I want to tell my story of my very first class in Speaking Class. Enjoy reading!

After we get a very longgg term break, we're finally coming to Campus again, yayy!! I was nervous and excited at the same time to start my new class in the 3rd semester.

I woke up in the morning .. and prepared myself to get ready, I think I waited for over 30 minutes for the bus to stop by the Sudirman Halt :") and when the Bus came, I rushed to get on the Bus. It took me 1 hour and more minutes to get in Untirta Ciwaru, I think it was 8:40 the time that I arrived in Untirta Pakupatan and then I ordered an online driver to get to my Campus. When I get there, the class is already full, and that was the time when Mr. Udi asked me if I'm okay or not .. the truth is I lack some amount of time to sleep and I was just woking up from my sleep on the Bus plus I had a bad hair that time :(

When I have my seat, Mr. Udi is displaying the power point about what are we going to learn in his class, the rules that we have to communicate in this class with everyone, and not to talk nonsensely without any meaning. Mr. Udi also asked us to give a short introduction of ourselves and our expectations from his class. I answered that I want to be able to talk more fluently and confident in my speaking. Throughout my journey with speaking in English, I have struggle with my speaking skills because I only confident when talking in front of camera, and I want to talk and know more about many vocabularies so I'm not stuttered in my speech.

Later, he told us about what we are going to have in the upcoming class such as impromptu speaking, aademic blog & youtube, and he gave us an interview group assignment that day. And it will be my very first time involved in interviewing lecturers!

Overall, Mr. Udi is a great lecturer because he can live up the atmosphere in class wth his smile~ And I'm looking forward for more offline meeting in his class!

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Critical Speaking Class

Hello, everyone! I'm wishing you all in a good condition and so am i. So, today I want to tell you about my second offline class in Academic Speaking course. Actually, it has to be my third but I couldn't come in the last offline class :( but now i'm happy that I get the chance to join the offline class again.

Okay, in this class, we were introduced to a new topic for Academic Speaking class. It was Critical Speaking. When the class started, Mr. Udi asked us what we know about "critical". Then, to make the class is active, he asked us to write what we know about critical speaking in the whiteboard. Each students wrote what they knew about critical speaking, and Mr. Udi never judge our answers. He gladly explain and correct our answers, like when one of our friends wrote "judgemental" on critical speaking, Mr. Udi said that in Critical Speaking, we are not trying to be the judge, but instead we are trying to be open minded.

After that, he asked us to do an impromptu speaking. At first, I thought impromptu speaking was just chatting abruptly with Mr. Udi, but out of the blue we were asked to make a speech about free topics within a short time HAHAHA i misunderstand things a lot, sorry Sir T-T So. we were given 5-7 minutes to write a draft and when the times run out, he choose one person to perform in front of the class, the rest of the students were watching their performance and in the end, we were asked to give our commentary regarding their performance. It doesn't ended just like that, the performance was told to choose one of the male student to perform next, he said it's a snowballing effect (?) I think it's good to push their bravery to perform in front of people, even thought you don't want to perform, but you have to because you was choosen to perform next. And the limited time that was given pushed us to be creative within the time limit and handle the situation with calmness so we can do our best when performing.

Unfortunately, not all of the students (including me) can perform in front of class because the time is due ... :(