Kamis, 14 Juni 2012

BADIK MANGKASARAK SIMBOL KEBERANIAN MASA DEPAN

BADIK MANGKASARAK SIMBOL KEBERANIAN MASA DEPAN
Beragam suku dan keanekaragaman adat istiadat budaya di Indonesia telah bersatu dalam semboyang bhineka tunggal ika berbeda beda tapi satu. Di dalam keanekaragaman itu terdapat banyak hal yang patut kita ketahui dan pahami maka mulailah mengenal budaya Indonesia berawal dari tempatmu sendiri ketahuilah ceritakan dan banggalah padanya boleh jadi kita sudah berjumpa banyak orang,
telah pergi melanglang buana di pelosok dunia tapi walaupun demikian hujan emas di negeri orang masih lebih baik hujan batu di negeri sendiri maka banggalah menjadi orang Indonesia
Dalam tulisan ini saya akan mengangkat tema tentang senjata traditional ala Makassar dengan berpegang pada semboyang pembangkit semangat REWAKO MAKASSAR di mana rewako disini berarti berani dan ini memang cocok disandingkan dengan senjata khas Sulawesi Selatan yang akan kita bahas yaitu "BADIK MANGKASARAK" bentuk asli dari senjata ini seperti jantung pisang, ada jg yang berpendapat seperti orang hamil, makanya orang menyebutnya lompo battang (perut besar), konon katanya jika ada orang terkena badik ini, maka dia tidak akan bertahan dalam waktu 24 jam
Tapi jangan salah dulu, tenang Badik ini tidak harus digunakan untuk melukai manusia dahulu sering dipakai oleh kalangan petani untuk melindungi dirinya dari binatang melata dan membunuh hewan hutan yang mengganggu tanamannya. Selain itu karena orang Makassar gemar merantau, maka penyematan badik dipinggangnya membuat dia merasa terlindungi, jadi tidak salah kalau orang orang Makassar dulu beranggapan lebih baik tidak punya uang daripada tidak bawa Badik. Bahkan para pahlawan kita dulu telah melawan penjajah dengan senjata ini dan konon katanya banyak penjajah yang mati di ujung Badik Mangkasarak sehingga akhirnya Indonesia merdeka. Selain dari pada itu ada pula badik yang berfungsi sebagai benda pusaka, seperti badik saroso yang memiliki nilai sejarah. Ada pula sebagian orang yang meyakini bahwa badik berguna sebagai azimat yang berpengaruh pada nilai baik dan buruk seseorang.
Satu hal lagi fungsi dari Badik Mangksarak yang paling popular adalah digunakan untuk membela diri dalam mempertahankan harga diri seseorang atau keluarga dan orang orang Makassar yang berdogma kental menganggap ini adalah harga mati. Hal ini didasarkan pada budaya siri' dengan makna untuk mempertahankan martabat suatu keluarga. Konsep siri' ini sudah menyatu dalam tingkah laku, sistem sosial budaya dan cara berpikir masyarakat Makassar di Sulawesi Selatan. Permasalahn Siri’ yang paling sering menjadikan badik ini untuk harus digunakan adalah masalah kawin lari yang umumnya terjadi pada hubungan cinta yang tak direstui oleh keluarga karena strata kasta atau golongan dalam masyarakat dimana keluarga yang keberatan di sini disebut tuma’siri’ yang umumnya dari keluarga si gadis pelaku kawin lari dan diwajibkan untuk membunuh si pria atau keduanya apabila tuma’siri’ ini melihatnya.
Namun walaupun demikian masih bisa ditempuh jalan damai melalui negosiasi yang terkenal cukup rumit yaitu kesepakatan kedua keluarga untuk membiarkan kedua pasangan sejoli ini kembali ketengah tengah keluarga yang biasa disebut BAJI’ atau MA’BAJI’ dimana si pria memenuhi syarat syarat yang diminta oleh tuma’siri’. Kendati demikian setelah pasangan ini kembali mungkin butuh waktu lebih lama pada keluarga untuk melupakan rasa siri’ (malu) itu dan sekaligus membalut luka itu. Tapi ada juga masyarakat yang apabila terjadi kawin lari ini keluarga akan mengadakan pesta kematian untuk si wanita kawin lari yaitu disebut RIPA’TUMATEANGI, dimana si wanita dianggap sudah mati jadi walaupun bertemu di suatu tempat sudah dianggap bukan siapa siapa lagi dilupakan dan tak dihiraukan lagi sampai di sini persolan selesai.
                Itulah fungsi Badik Mangkasarak yang saya sempat paparkan dalam artikel ini. Tapi tidak sampai di sini saja yang menjadi pertanyaan besar kepada kita semua terutama suku Makassar untuk menjadi bangga dengan dengan budaya apakah kita harus membawa badik kemana saja kita pergi sebagai simbol keberanian. TENTU SAJA TIDAK!!!!!. Zaman telah berganti kata petuah Makassar tempoe doloe berkata TANJAKA MAMI TAKKULLE RI PAINRA (hanya wajah yang tak bisa dirubah) tapi sekarang petuah itu tidak berlaku lagi karena kemajuan IPTEK bahkan wajahpun bisa dirubah, jadi saya menghimbau kepada siapa saja yang membaca artikel ini dengan berpesan bahwa untuk bangga dan menjujung tinggi harkat budaya bangsa kita marilah kita menjadi berani tentunya bukan berani untuk berkelahi beranilah mengambil langkah positif untuk merubah masa depan kita, beranilah untuk sukses dan warnailah masyarakatmu jangan sampai cuman kita yang diwarnai oleh masyarakat karena impossible is possible.
Untuk para muda mudi jagalah kehormatanmu karena kehormatanmu adalah simbol bangsa kita bagi para mahasiswa beranilah untuk tidak bertindak anarkis dalam menyampaikan inspirasi ditengah carut marut negeri ini karena tindakan anarkis tidak lain adalah simbol kelemahan karena orang yang berani dan orang yang kuat adalah orang yang mampu menahan emosinya dan terakhir untuk para pemegang wewenang dan punya pengaruh dan kekuasaan di negeri ini jadilah bijak dalam mengambil keputusan karena di kantong safarimulah kami titipkan masa depan kami dan negeri ini  

Minggu, 10 Juni 2012

ANNOTATING

the implementation of teaching reading by applying report text

the implementation of teaching reading by applying report text 

“Improving Students’ Speaking Ability Through The Use Of Suggestopedia Method



CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.    Background
English is one of the human languages in the world that has important role in communication. It has become international language and almost practiced in all part of life, especially in this global era that has full of competition and English becomes one of determiners and assessments of the competition. So that it is important for us to learn the language. It is similar to the statement that English has dispersed and diversified, has been adopted and adapted as an international means of communication by communities all over the globe.

There are four skills that we have already known in English, namely writing, speaking, reading and listening. Later, the skills should be taught better to master and get complete thought about English itself because each skill has general or specific function in communicating. But we cannot deny that speaking is the most important one for asking information and conversely for delivering information, speaking is the direct system of communication.  
Speaking is like the first assessment for each learner who is studying English and each learner has to speak. This statement means an obligation, duty, task, fact, implementation, process, and it can be learning, although we still find some students are speaking little or even passive in the classroom, and it can be caused of many things include the students, the class situation, environment, teaching method, technique, approach or even from the teachers who cannot deliver their material successfully.
In this last century, many linguists and educators give more attention in action research to teach English as a foreign language. According to Stephen Kemmis and Hopkins in book of A Teacher’s Guide to Classroom Research states that action research is a form of self reflective inquiry undertaken by participants in a social (including education) situation in order to improve the rationality and of their own social or educational practices justice, their understanding of these practices, and the situation in which practices are carried out.
The researcher has found similar case in SMA Negeri 2 Bontotiro, Bulukumba, X-2 class where the students cannot say something perfectly in English. They do not know what they must say and how to say, they look very confuse to express the ideas on their mind even not active enough on their speaking class, and it can be seen as the last score of the students that almost do not achieve minimal criteria, 64. According to the teacher’s experiences that the problem relates directly to the teaching method and how the teacher delivers material. There is no specific method to teach English, we are not controlling the class but we are controlled by the class and situation. Speaking is the most important lesson that the students should be mastered, but in fact speaking becomes the most difficult lesson to understand by the students, so that the speaking always becomes passive class in every meeting.   
Based on the fact as previous problem above, then, the researcher emphasized the problem and tried to investigate what idea came in his mind and began to collect his literatures based on the problem, analyzed focus of the problem and appropriate extends that would be needed to be practice driven in this research preparation. His research is about speaking in early production or to the student who will begin to produce their sentences and deliver the idea without worrying any failure; his target is to improve the students’ speaking ability at the X-2 class of SMA Negeri 2 Bontotiro. 
Teaching speaking is an interesting and challenging duty for teacher for some considerations. An EFL teacher is asked to be more creative with flexible lesson planning in teaching this skill, like selecting an appropriate technique, materials, teaching instructions, teaching aids, and time allocation which can help the students in their process to speak the language well.
There are many techniques can be adopted by the teacher in teaching this skill, and one of them is suggestopedia, and it is also recommended by the researcher after considering the case above. Suggestopedia is from the related words suggestion and pedagogy as a set of learning recommendations derived from suggestology. It is one of the best methods pro introduced by an educator, Dr. Georgi Lozanov, and it has been adapted and adopted by many EFL teachers in improving English.  
Lazanov says that by using this method one can teach languages approximately three to five times as quickly as conventional method. However, it is not limited to the learning of languages, but language learning was found to be a process in which one can easily measure how much and how fast something is learned. He was thinking about the English meaning, to suggest = to offer = to propose (but the students are free to choose), they are free to choose how to speak and express their idea.
Based on Dianne Freeman’s study of language teaching method said that suggestopedia is a study that desuggests the limitations that learners have to help them to believe that they could be successful in learning. This will help the learners to overcome the barriers to learning. This study is done so because generally, learners would not be able to believe that they will succeed in gaining the knowledge, which contribute development of high limitations towards learning.
This method will be applied with interesting situation in the classroom, and it consists of introduction, concert, elaboration, production that are oriented through classroom action research, so that the students feel the process of learning directly. Class will be set as situation of English that automatically engaged students to express their ideas easier and free and it  means that a class situation where the whole contents of study include the teacher, the students, class decoration, instructions, material, situation, and others have become unity that relate each other.
Based on the factual information and explanation above, the researcher is interested in conducting a class action research under the title “Improving Students’ Speaking Ability Through The Use Of Suggestopedia Method (A study at the X-2 class students of SMU Negeri 2 Bontotiro, Kabupaten Bulukumba).

B.     Problem Statement
In relation to the issues as process of problem identification, the researcher formulates the research question as follows:
1.      How is the students’ speaking accuracy of X-2 class improved through the use of suggestopedia method?
2.      How is the students’ speaking fluency of X-2 class improved through the use of suggestopedia method?

C.    Objective of the Study
Relating to the problem statement mentioned above, the researcher states that objective of the study are:
1.      To describe the procedure of teaching speaking to the first year of SMU N 2 Bontotiro, Bulukumba by using the suggestopedia method. It shows easy and funny activities in teaching and learning speaking. It has several steps or class actions:
-          Introduction
-          Concert
-          Elaboration
-          Production
2.      Later, this method improves students’ speaking ability of the X-2 class in SMU Negeri 2 Bontotiro, Bulukumba more than other conventional methods.

D.    Significance of the Study
The values of the research are concerned to be useful and revised information for the teachers and especially EFL teachers in senior high school level about the use of suggestopedia method in improving students’ speaking ability. This method can make the students enjoy in language classroom activities with interesting material, comfortable environment, and self confidence. In the future, the researcher expects that the method will be a contributive method to institution, science, and government in Indonesia that has been mentioned in Pancasila and UUD 1945.
E.     Scope of the Study
This research is specified his research to the use of suggestopedia method in improving students’ speaking ability of X-2 class, SMU N 2 Bontotiro, Bulukumba. Improving the students’ speaking ability of X-2 class, SMU N 2 Bontotiro, Kabupaten Bulukumba is specified into the improvement of fluency and accuracy. 

Senin, 04 Juni 2012

Writing Skill by Using Writing Process Approach at the Second Grade (TKJ Department) Students


MASNI SANTUNG, 2011. Improving Writing Skill by Using Writing Process Approach at the Second Grade (TKJ Department) Students of SMK Nasional Makassar (A Classroom Action Research), guided by Abd. Muin and St. Asriati.

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ABSTRACT 
CHAPTER I 
CHAPTER II 
CHAPTER III 
CHAPTER IV