E-Centre

English Student Association (ESA) is an English student organization Faculty of Teacher Taining and Education which focuses on fostering its members’ English proficiency gradually. There have been myriad English programs done successfully during this half presidency such as National English Seminar, English Learners’ Club, and English Debating Forum. We, certainly, are aware that fostering the English proficiency is also needed for other people. Therefore, the only appropriate way to do so is by conducting several beneficial events.

National English Festival (NEF) has always been one of the events of ESA FKIP UNISMA that proudly presents. NEF is the compilation between linguistics field and English as communication media. The purpose of this event is to facilitate participants in fostering their skills and talents through a competitive yet sportive atmosphere of English competitions. To achieve the purpose, we present you National English Festival 2017 with the theme “Youths and National Identity, Let’s Raise Them Up” assist theme. This theme is chosen because NEF is one of the events where the participants can improve their abilities, not only in terms of English linguistic but also in being brave, competitive, open-minded, and to put forward ideas to the general public. This output will be utilized as a power for the youths to compete supportively in this global and critical world.

NEF 2017 has five competitions such as Debate, News Anchor, Speech, Olympiad and Storytelling. The objective of holding this event is to enable the participants improve their abilities in English through a competitive, critical and supportive competition.

Thus, we humbly invite you to participate in this nation-wide, prestigious, and challenging event. Enclosed with this invitation are registration forms and further explanations. We hope you can be a part of NEF 2017 so that together we can help developing the usage of English in daily life of the society.