WHAT I HAVE DONE AND WHAT I WILL DO ABOUT ENGLISH FOR MATHEMATIC

As a student in mathematics education, we got an english matter. From first semester we have got english matter, in first semester we got English part 1 and now we get English part 2. In globalization area, english is very important because communications and information technology progressively go forward, and to understand that information need our ability in english. Beside that, our university will going to World Class University (WCU), and mathematics departement from this year start to be World Class University so we should can communicating in English well. And Indonesian government throught the Department of National Education has established International Standard School Program,the relation to us are in the future when we finished our study in university we will become a teacher so we need English to teach mathematics.

To prepare it we must study English from now, we must study continually and make it become our habit. In first semester I have experience in study English, when I start my education in Yogyakarta State University, I follow TOEFL test which held by university. And the result I get score 420, from my TOEFL’s score I get opportunity to follow the active conversation program from Language Development and Services Centre (P3B), it’s called WCU. There are twenty student from mathematics department which following this program. During one month, we study English especially active convertation. The matter in WCU are :

• Asking and giving information
• Expressing opinion
• Describing objects and processes
• Asking and answering the questions
• Inviting, accepting/declining invitations
• Giving and responding complaints
• Giving a formal talk
• Negotiating
• Making and responding to requests
• Reporting and explaining procedures
• Etc

In WCU I got many experience, our lecture taught us about how to make a good presentation, how to speech well, how to express our idea to our friends. In there we are stimulated to speak English so we spend our time to discussion in English, express our idea, ang speech or presentation. We are trained to speak English well with all the activity because conversing English well could not done with theory, the key is practice. Therefore, we can speak English well if we practice it every time. The other way to learn English are listening music, reading novel, watching TV or English film, etc. It also not waste a lot of money.

When we have a lot of vocabulary and can speak English well we will ready going to World Class University. So what I will do about English in mathematics is study English continually and try to speak English in mathematics. Beside that, we must support the International Standard School with study English in every opportunity. One of the most important points of this program is developing student’s creativity to improve national competitiveness. So we must study hard, especially in English, to support the government program and to make education in Indonesia better.