On Sunday, April 29 2018, along with PRA (Pimpinan Ranting Aisiyiah) Tamantrito Selatan, PBI UMY held a community service event in Tamantirto community hall. The event include bazaars of cheap daily needs (rice, cooking oil and sugar), fruit trees, and second-hand clothes. The first two items were limited only for those with coupons, which have
Within Indonesia’s curriculum, English is no longer listed as a compulsory subject for elementary school students. As a result, many elementary school students can decide whether to have English as a subject or not. Unfortunately, due to many issues ranging from time management to finance, many schools decide not to include English as a part
On Monday, May 14th 2018, PBI held the annual public hearing. Representatives of each class as well as some lecturers attended the event. As the representative of their classmates, students communicated their concerns and opinions on the department. These include their views on the academic conduct, organisational activities, classroom teaching & learning process and any
To boost up students’ English competence, a three-day English Proficiency Test (EPT) training has been conducted for ELED students batch 2017. From April 24th to 26th, around 200 students joined the training, which consists of three sections. These three sections are listening comprehension, structure & written expression and reading comprehension sections. These trainings were carried
On Saturday, April 28, 2018, the awarding ceremony of a series of English Language Education Department competitions was held. The event took place from 4 p.m to 5 p.m. in KH Ibrahim Building. In the ceremony, awards of several competitions that took place in April were presented for the winners. The competitions included debate competition,
Bridging Soft Skill Course for even semester of academic year 2017/2018 has been conducted. Bridging soft skill is a compulsory midterm activity for all students of English Language Education Department (ELED) of UMY. The event aims at improving students’ soft skills. If any student cannot participate this semester Bridging Soft Skill Course, they should make
Reading Dates are a teaching innovation created by Evi Puspitasari, S.Pd., M.Hum. as the lecturer for Basic Reading and Writing class for the 2017 class. Basically, a reading date is a place for students who like to read to gather. The activities of this program takes ten weeks. There have been three meetings of this
The English Department Student Association (EDSA) of Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta successfully hosted the 7th Milad (anniversary) of ELED Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. The final night done in December 9th, 2017 was titled “English Night Milad PBI 2017.” Edwin Januardie, the president of EDSA PBI UMY claims that the event can have a positive influence to the
On Wednesday, November 14th 2017, English Language Education Department of UMY (ELED UMY) hosts a guest lecture as part of the Listening and Speaking for Formal Setting class. As many as 210 students of the 2017 batch who took said class attended the guest lecture. In addition, 62 students of Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Adisujipto (STTA)
EDSA (English Department Student Association), the student association of English Language Education Department of UMY, had just celebrated its 7th anniversary. As a gratitude and happiness, EDSA celebrated its birthday on November 26th, 2017. The celebration started at 07.00 PM, and finished at 11.00 PM; the party was held at Caping Ndeso, and it was