Zainurrahman

This short article is written to make sense that shower soap we use everyday affects our skin. In other side, our skil re-generates every time. It seems reasonable to say that we should be wise in choosing our shower soap brand, but what brand? This is the asnwer...

In our "school," curriculum is always the parameter we use in deciding what approach usable in the classroom, although who the student will be is not predictable. We make syllabus, and then we say that "I will teach this with this approach." For our education future sake, I assume we have to redefine the education.

This article is about how to write or how to teach writing through integrated approach. Integrated approach is the complementary of three partial approaches in writing (product, process, and genre). This article is written to share what and how the Integrated Approach of Writing is implemented in the practice of writing or writing teaching.

This article attempts to honestly open an ignored academic activity in postgraduate studies, another side when a student writes and presents his or her thesis or dissertation. This does not attempt to figure out who is wrong and who is right, but this only makes sense that there is a very non-academic atmosphere in the situation of thesis or dissertation writing and exam.

Peer Feedback, sometimes called peer response, is a technique perceived as under collaborative writing method. I suggest to see Peer Feedback as an independent approach based on my research that found that peer feedback has its own original system. In this article, I present you my research conclusion. My Research was performed to see the students' narrative writing development and their responses toward peer feedback in L2 writing classroom.

This research investigates the implied meaning of surat al-Fatihah from Implicature standpoint. Although it is stated that Pragmatics deals with normal "situation" where the utterance (text) is uttered (produced), it is still possible to analyze texts like verses, even though verses are "abnormal", since they were not uttered by normal human. This research finds that those verses contain God's intentions to be confessed in some aspects by human....(read more)

Understanding Conversation, written by Zainurrahman (me myself) is a practical handbook for everyone who wants to create a good conversation and to understand conversation. This book is a continuation from the previous book entitled "The Original of Ideolinguistics". It is free!!! The first book was the original of ideolinguistics, it discusses the very basic principles and philosophy of ideolinguistics.

This article discusses one of my childhood education theories. The theory of AMD is constructed from Piaget's, Vygotsky's, and McDonald's views of children psychology and cognitive development. The theory discusses the role of adult in assisting children learning, especially learning language.

This very brief article discusses a very basic understanding of Pragmatics as a science of language in use. There are many literature discusses Pragmatics, but to read it all to achieve the basic understanding as what I will present later on, is spending time. This article is based on my reading on pragmatics books. In short, Pragmatics is a science of how people use language in context.