To celebrate the success of the English Department for getting an A for the re-accreditation 2011 – 2016, ED is going to have an Open House on Wednesday, Sept 7, 2011. Everybody is welcomed. Please drop by F 5th floor at 9 am – 2 pm.
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Noises Off – 2011 Drama Performance

Drama Performance is always the jewel of FBS events every year. This year FBS annual drama performance will present a comedy written by Michael Frayn entitled “Noises Off” on 23 & 24 March 2011, 5 PM onward, at SWCU University Hall.
“Noises Off” tells the off-stage chaos during a drama rehearsal and all sort of problems that may and very often happen off-stage during on-stage performance. Michael Frayn intended the drama to be a comedy and we will liven it up through acting, music, makeup, costumes, stage decoration and lighting.
To reserve a seat:
1/ F Building Plaza starting on 1 March 2011 during 9 AM – 2 PM
2/ Contact Irma : Irma 087834676337 and Nita 08812481197
Reservation fee is Rp 8,000/seat. Payment can be made on the performance day.
Read moreCollaboration Project with U. of Manchester, UK and Instituto Cultural Anglo-Uruguayo, San Jose, Uruguay
This semester, students of Ms. Neny Isharyanti’s Sociolinguistic class have the opportunity to collaborate with students from the School of Education of the University of Manchester and Instituto Cultural Anglo-Uruguayo, San Jose, Uruguay in Computer-Mediated Intercultural Communication project.
For four weeks in March, they are communicating through chat, emails, wikis, and facebook in issues related to culture and the end of the project in April they will produce a wiki page, containing the results of their communication over the Internet and their shared reflection of the interaction. The students are also expected to write a paper to analyze the interaction from the perspective of sociolinguistics.
It is expected that this telecollaboration project can raise students’ awareness of issues and problems of intercultural communication and can get the opportunity to use English in a natural setting with native-speakers of English.
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English Department Olympics is an annual sports and games competition for students to compete among different generation. This year the event is held between 9-11 March 2011 in our campus, featuring basketball, volleyball, football competition as well as traditional games such as tug of war and typical 17 August games.

The 5th FBS-LTC International Seminar
Call for Paper Presentations
Submission deadline: 1 July 2011
Theme: Teacher Education in the Era of World Englishes
Dates: November 21-22, 2011.
Venue: Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga, Indonesia
Invited Plenary Speakers:
- Prof. Suresh Canagarajah, Penn State University, US.
- Dr. Mario Saraceni, University of Portsmouth, UK
- George Braine, Ph.D., Chinese University of Hongkong, HK.
Fakultas Bahasa dan Sastra (Faculty of Language and Literature) and Language Training Centre (LTC), Satya Wacana Christian University announces the 2011 International Seminar, to be held on November 21-22, 2011 at the Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga, Indonesia with the theme “Teacher Education in the Era of World Englishes.” The purpose of the seminar is to provide media where English teachers, teacher educators and researchers can meet and share their scholarly interests, share and generate ideas, as well as to receive feedback from peers and experts.
English teachers, teacher educators, graduate students and researchers are encouraged to submit proposals for presentations focused on the following sub-topics:
• Bilingual approach to teacher education
• Pre-service and in-service teacher education program
• The contribution of critical pedagogy to teacher education program.
• The use of World Englishes literature in teacher education
• Teacher professional development
• Teacher Identities in the era of World Englishes
• Issues of nativeness in teacher education.
• The role of culture in teacher education.
• Technology in teacher education: A bridge or a barrier?
An abstract of approximately 150-200 words should be submitted to http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/TEWE2011 or http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/customhome.cfm?Emeetingid=0702J84658567E5A408040441
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