To What Extend Have You Made Effort To Improve English As Your Major *tugas mata kuliah academic writing dan iyah aku ngaku tulisan aku masih jelek banget huhuhuuu*

Believe it or not, majoring English in university tend to make us becoming bilingual people, of course, this happens only in countries with mother tongue other than English, so that English might be as Second Language (ESL) or as Foreign Language (EFL). People with non English mother tongue need to translate the word from their mother tongue into English, that is why, sometimes they do code switching (one sentence in English and one other sentence in mother tongue and keep switching frequently) or code mixing (combining mother tongue and English in one sentence) in terms of daily conversation. This sort of action actually one of so many effort to improve English as English major university students, which is trying to talk English as frequently as possible, whether in order to do that, we combine languages, sometimes.

For better English language internalization, we need to put English into our life, this way we will be influenced and contaminated consciously and unconsciously, eventually our English language skills will be naturally improving. Practicing English Reading-Speaking-Writing-Listening everyday; read English text (English news, English novels, English articles), Speaking English (talking English with friends or your very own selves), writing in English (one of the easiest way to practice this skill is through writing diary in English, you may write them on diary book or you may start a blog), listen to English spoken (listen to English music).

Other tips for improving English skill is through watching movies, it enable us to practice so many skills in one place. We may practicing reading skill by the subtitles, listening skill by listening to the actors speaking in movies, speaking skill by repeating the word that the actors pronounce in movies, and writing skill by looking at English subtitles. This movie watching tips not only limited to English movies, it can also implemented with other than English movies, such as Japanese movies and Korean movies with English subtitles.

Those tips above are some effort we may use to improving English skills. But do not forget that the very beginning of all is learning from English grammar books, so that we may aware of simple basic rules that later can be improved by tips that has been explained before.