After its success in developing Audio Story Book (DISTRO BOOK) in 2018, two of English Language Education Department’s lecturers from UMY facilitated students from SLB Negeri 1 Bantul to learn English using the Distro Book. The audio book consists of six tracks of English-translated folktales and the have been recorded in audio files that are
Two lecturers of PBI UMY, Puput Arfiandhani, M.A and Ika Wahyuni Lestari, M.Hum initiated a community empowerment program that targetted marginalized communities at Abdul Alim Orphanage, Imogiri and Mustika Tama Orphanage, Madukismo. The opening ceremony was held on March,5th in Imogiri and March, 14th in Madukismo. According to Ika Wahyuni Lestari, the aim of this
From April 8th to April 13th, PBI UMY held TOEFL week for its students. TOEFL week is an annual agenda for the department in which students take English proficiency test and they joined a series of English proficiency training. All freshmen, sophomores, and juniors took the pre-test. Meanwhile, only the freshmen who take the post-test
On 6th April, 2019, English Department Student Association (EDSA) held the 6th National English Speech Competition (NESCO) for all SMA/K/MA students in Indonesia. The guideline for the speech was that of practiced in TED Talks. The purpose of this national competition was to develop students’ critical thinking, to boost their confidence, and to exercise their
Wednesday(3/04/2019), an ‘Open Mic’ event for a program called by ‘Kencan Baca’ at Perpustakaan Masjid Gedhe Kauman, Yogyakarta was held. The program was initiated by Evi Puspitasari, M.Hum. and Maryam Sorohiti, S.S., M.HSc. The fact that many millenials generations’ reading habit seemed to be decreasing trigerred Evi and Maryam to initiate this program. This program
PBI UMY encourages the lecturers to conduct an community service progrmas to support educational field especially in Yogyakarta. One of the community service of PBI UMY is teacher empowerment through lesson study which was initiated and led by Eko Purwanti, Ph.D. and Evi Puspitasari, S.Pd., M.Hum. Lesson study is an activity when teachers collaborate to
In the present millenial era, creativity and critical thinking plays a more defining role for young people. Realizing this condition, PBI UMY students have been encouraged to turn their creativity into beneficial products/services. One of the ways to build their creativity and critical thinking is to join business plan competition. From February 11st until March
In this disruptive era, technology has been an important integral part of education. Therefore, it is important for teacher educators to keep up with this technological development. One of PBI UMY efforts to get its teaching staffs updated with the advance of educational technology, was conducting a workshop on designing online course materials. The workshop
The second year of a community service project in Pokoh Village, Dlingo has started the first meeting on Saturday, 23 March 2019 at 9 A.M until 12 P.M. This community service project is conducted by three lecturers of English Language Education Department of UMY, Fitria Rahmawati, S.Pd., M.Hum., Mariska Intan Sari, S.S., M.A., and Puthut
English Language Education Department conducted research dissemination forum on Saturday, March 3 2019 from 1 to 3 p.m. at KH. Ibrahim Building. In this forum, fourteen lecturers of the department presented their research before students of Batch 2015 and 2016. Approximately 200 students attended presentation in 5 classrooms in which three lecturers presented their study