The problem of the language used to communicate in English

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Since 1971 the revolution of communication cannot be dammed up anymore. The world has become a place to swap great information. By communicating, people in all over the world can share their knowledge. According to UNESCO statistical yearbook (1992) the world prints more than 800.000 title of book every year. It means that information is so needed for the revolution on anything which is known well. Everyone must adapt themselves to the changes.

The problem appears when the language used to communicate is English. The learners must be able to use the language in reading as well as speaking which need mastery of vocabulary. InIndonesia, these skills achievement seem hard enough. This is caused by many factors. One of them is psychological barriers as asserted by Georgi Lozanov (1979) that our lack self confidence to do something will influence the result. When we swear we can do something, we really can. Despite when we doubt we cannot do anything, this negative thinking really works.

When a baby is born, he has equal opportunity to become a genius. It can be proved when he is two years old. A baby starts to communicate by speaking, an achievement without reading grammar book, learning at school, or having examination. And if a baby lives in a family with two different spoken languages, he will speak those with equal fluency.

But as a baby grows, negative feedbacks continuously attack his self confidence. We can take class life as the best example. The teacher asks a question to the students. One of the students holds up his hand and answers it confidently. The others laugh hearing this answer. The teacher, with a sullen face, says that it is wrong. This makes him embarrassed. And for many people, this is start of negative self-image. Amazing achievement a baby ever had in their early life, fade away.  When a baby celebrates his first birthday, he learns how to walk.

During the process of learning, we cannot count how many times he falls to stand and to try once again. His parents are always around him, they inspire him that he can make it. Once he has done it, they  show their happiness by cheering and clapping their hands. A baby never knows failure. And this positive mind power, finally, bring them to success, standing still walking. The student above gets negative feedbacks from his  teacher and also from his friends. He does not believe in himself. And step by step, he does not want to take the risk. He fears of making mistakes and being a failure.

Jack Canfield (1982) reports his finding that every child receives about 460 negative feedbacks and receives only 75 positive feedbacks everyday. In fact, when the brain is suffer from stress, nerve capacity to think rationally never gets the maximum range. And it cannot access High Order Thinking Skill (HOTS), stops learning process at the moment  and in the future (Mac Lean, 1990)

Negative feedbacks are the first factor that cause  failure in learning, and undermine students' self esteem. For this worst condition, to purge any pressure from the learning environment is absolute. If, then, strong negative emotion during the process of learning is the enemy of learning, so, the learning process must be in the opposite condition.

Learning must be fun for all learners.  It is the teacher's job to provide fun atmosphere during the learning process. Teachers must find the way to make learning fun and push aside any threat during learning process. 
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