Achmad Basari
Dian Nuswantoro university

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LEARNING TO SPEAK WITH EFFORTLESS ENGLISH SYSTEM Achmad Basari
LITE: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya Vol 7, No 1 (2011): March
Publisher : Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Dian Nuswantoro

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This article discusses an introduction to the new teaching system in the speaking classroom. This system is known as the Effortless English System. It is a system which relies much on listening activity. In recent years, most English students in schools have been stuck on a grammar-translation method. In practice, the students focus more on grammar rules teaching and translation. The results of this method show no improvement to their speaking skills. They tend to always think and translate before they speak. It obviously prevents them from being fluent and confident when speaking to other English students or to native speakers. On the other hand, Effortless English system teaches the students with fun and interesting stories. The system does not teach grammar rules consciously and analytically, instead it uses mini-story lessons to learn grammar intuitively. The major focus on this system is learning to speak by listening not by speaking. Speaking is optional after one listens to a lot of comprehensible inputs to his/her brain. Forced speaking is not recommended because it may damage final results. Listening to things that are always right will build the language right while saying things that are always wrong will build it wrong. The key to excellent speaking is listen to one thing many times not listen to many things one time. If students follow these rules, they will end up speaking English like a native. Keywords: Effortless English System, Comprehensible Inputs, Forced Speaking, Listening Activity
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN AUTISTIC CHILDREN Achmad Basari
LITE: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya Vol 4, No 1 (2008): March
Publisher : Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Dian Nuswantoro

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The term Autism has become popular in Indonesia since the end of 90’s. The suspicious and peculiar cause of autism is stil debatable until today. There are experts who suspect mercury substance of deep water fish to be the main cause of it and some others claim that it is caused by a particular vaccination before a child gets two years old. There are two common symptoms of a child labeled autistic; speech delay and mental retardation. This article describes the ways of an autistic child acquiring his first language in addition to the available theories of language acquisition for children and it also shares the writer’s personal experiences living together with an autistic child of his own.Keywords: Autism, speech delay, mental retardation, languageacquisition, speech therapy