OPTIMIZING EIL USING “MEMRISE” AS BUILDER STUDENTS’ VOCABULARIES

Although online English learning platform currently is interesting and entertaining and it can improve language acquisition, pronunciation, four integrated skills but it still become difficult to be used in English learning. Therefore, people must be mastering the high technology to support their daily life and get many information instantly and accurately. In this article, the writer would like to introduce a suitable platform in English learning. English is consider as an international language (EIL) and the purpose is to facilitate communication of ideas, thoughts, feelings, knowledge and culture, the language is a medium. Moreover, English can be taught by using Memrise Application in order to encourage students to learn English. train students in Communicative Competence and optimize the effectiveness of English Language Teaching. After reading this article, the writer expects that this article can help English teachers to apply this platform for English teaching in Indonesia. For this reason, teachers need to develop strategies that are appropriate to the characteristics of millennial students and be able to make it reach the competencies specified in the learning objectives. In this case the use of media is also needed in innovative learning. Innovative learning using learning strategies and the use of media are very important to create effective English language learning, especially the current COVID-19 pandemic situation.


INTRODUCTION
English as an international language (EIL) is used in the biggest part of the world, (Floris, 2014). English is an effective means to learn the development of other countries.
Besides, there are many scientific books written in English, even more the information of the latest technology development can be kept up with internet which also uses English.
If people had no international language, there would be many misunderstanding in communication that occurs among countries.
Indonesians` competence in English is still low. In facing MEA, the learner must be aware to improve their English. The other hand, we can call this era as a technology era and free business is applied. That is why the students must be mastering in technology also Based on the explanation above, English is a language that is applied for communic ating with the people in the world.
It means the students will get many benefits from learning the English language for their future. Tthe big effect that we get when we are mastering in English is "English fluency will help you communic ate".

English as an International Language
Nowadays, English is truly regarded as an international language. It is the lingua franca in various international situations; it is also the most widely-learned and spoken second or foreign language in many countries (Floris, 2014). This dramatic change, many (e.g., Brown, 2012;McKay, 2003McKay, , 2012 have argued, should be taken into account in designing and planning our curriculum.

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Optimizing EIL Using "Memrise" Application…. provides some features also like quest repetition in which users will get an optional exercise and the choic es will be put randomly. Then, the word will be repeated many times to make the users really understand about the new words that they have learned. It will give positive effect to the students because they will get strong memorizing.

Ranking / Level
After that, this feature is really more interesting for the users. The students are really like a competition. Then, if we apply Memrise to them which has a ranking or level feature it will make the students are spirit and compete each other. In addition, they will get point if they pass the new word and have memorized it.
Automatically, the students will have high points if they have passed many words and it will be a competition exactly.

Share through social media
Beside the level or ranking, there is an interesting feature more. The score of points that have got by the students can
Edu-Ling Journal: https://journals.unihaz.ac.id/index.php/edu-ling Page | 197 | share on the social media. It means they will be proud of their selves because they have collected many points and they share on social media. In another similar name is they can show their score too many people through social media.

Memrise has many topics not only learn about language
Providing not only learning language, but also has many topics. It becomes one of favorite people learns many things by using Memrise. We can learn about art, history, geography etc.

Varieties methods
One of the thing that can grab the people to use Memrise as a platform to learn many things especially for language is providing many methods to increase our skill to improve the knowledge. Such as:

Repetition
Memrise provides features in repetition words. There will be flower as a sign that the word has been repeated many times. It makes the user easier know that the word has been memorized many times and increasing their memorizing on that word.

B. Multiple Choice
Then, next features that Memrise provides is multiple choic e. In this case the users must choose one of the best answers from the question and it will help the users to master the word.

Short Essay
Short essay becomes one of variety of method how the users learn about new word to understand the word. The use will be provided an explanation about something and give the chance for users to answer the question based on the explanation.

Listening to the word
Listening skill is a receptive skill in learning English. And from the listen something we can receive the information. It also happens when we want to memorize word or sentence. We can maximize our ear to learn especially for enrich the new vocabulary. That is way, this step is also provided by Memrise to support the user in mastering language. So, the users must choose the answer based on the sound that they have heard before.

Listen Recognizing
One more, listening skill becomes the one of the best way to learn new vocabularies. Because pronunciation is a very important. Especially in English. There are so many word which has many same sounds to produce it. And Memrise provide many choices which has a similar sound and it will help the users to recognize the correct word.

Inviting Friends
The last features of Memrise is inviting friends. After we learn about language. It will make the users feel bored.
So Memrise provides feature to add a new friend and they can learn together.

Context Creation
The concept of "Context" was first proposed by Malinowski (1990 Through the background and introduction processes, students improve their Meaning Potential in the various language networks in the project through learning and memorizing; through the construction learning process, students put these projects in the appropriate places in the system, from which the students learn the project by heart; through the choice learning process, students learn to choose their own language according to their needs, composing the communicative structure for the language environment, and grasping the Meaning Potential of the language.
Second, the real context can meet students' practical needs in communication.
During the process of implementing context in language teaching, students will gain a profound feeling for language learning. In ELT, teachers have various choices of multimedia software, videos, films, slides,

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Optimizing EIL Using "Memrise" Application…. Concerning the development of technology in future, it can be said that the use of multimedia English teaching will be further developed and combined with the use of the Internet. The process of English learning will be more student-centered but less time-consuming. Therefore, it promises that the teaching quality will be improved and students' applied English skills can be effectively cultivated, meaning that students' communicative competence will be further developed. It is also important that using multimedia English Teaching can be an appropriate method to help students to "get a sense of the sociocultural context in which the language is used and raising students' language awareness. not too dependent on their mother tongue or first language, but will be motivated and guided to communicate with each other using English.