Becoming the competent trainer

As the saying “We can Hold the World by English,” that’s the best line to illustrate how important English is to the human being in this time. English is not only become economical and cultural, but also it is best described as the international language that has been studying from most of country including Indonesia.

The importance of mastering English language has been known well by our society themselves, most of them want to be both Mastering in Speaking English Language and mastering the other branches of English Language like Grammar, Listening and writing. All of that happen because the change of Time and culture that force us to compete each other in the world league, where the communicating language that use in common is English Language.

As the conclusion of what we talk above, Walisongo English Club as the English Lovers Community in the Green Campus IAIN Walisongo Semarang, is aware that they must hold some agenda that can awake students’ spirit to studying and mastering it well, especially to them the Walisongo Students that love English and generally to Semarang Students.

It was on nice Saturday, 16^th of April 2011, taken place in the 2^nd Floor of 1^st auditorium located on Campus I, WEC presented the interesting English Program that focused on the guidance and training to become a competent English trainer, untitled “Training Of Trainer” or TOT in short. This English Program participated by more than 150 participants from IAIN Walisongo itself and from 8 participants from Non-IAIN, like UNNISULA, IKIP, PGRI and UNDIP. This event held due to WEC’s Care to the skill of university students  in delivering their knowledge to other, not to mention that it is specialized in English.

There were four agendas, started with presentation from Mr. Sukendar untitled “Achievement and Motivation,” he said that the brave spirit is a spirit to do something better and more useful to other. The next agenda was “Training of Writer” by Mr. Sulaiman Al-Kumaiyi (The Writer of International Best Seller Book “99 Asmaul Husna”), he said in short term: “just Go, Find the interesting Idea then quickly apply it in your writing.” The program continued after the participants get some times to break and rest for a while.

The next agenda was “Training to Get Scholarship” by Mr. Saekul Anwar, he clearly presented about some ways to get scholarship from inside or outside Indonesia. The Last agenda was “Public Speaking Training” that presented by Mr. Khanif Miftahuddin (Presenter of Cakra TV Semarang) that generally invited the participants to get used to speak in front of public without fear or shy because we will feel easy after we get used to do it continously.

This short - and full of inspiration – agenda was greeted by Mr. Galih Wibisono as the Chairman of WEC in period 2011. He said that we must have commitment to study English, don’t be shy or nervous if we make any maistakes and face a lot of difficulty, it’s just a normal thing because English isn’t our own language, the most important thing is “We Must Believe that We Can.”

The same sentence coming from Student of Syariah Faculty Umy Laely Rizkiyani (19) : “For me, English is a fascinating language that should be studied throughoutly, because English is important to our future life.

May this short agenda can remind us to always study English in every time and every place, because English is our Cultural Language Right Now. As the Saying “English is not Everything but Everything without English is Nothing.”