UNY English Competition (UNESHCO) #4 was held on April 26th-28th 2019 in the Faculty of Educational Science, Yogyakarta State University. UNESHCO is a national competition English competition for university students all around Indonesia held annually by UKM SAFEL (Student Activity Forum of Foreign Languages), Yogyakarta State University. This competition is one of the agendas in commemorating Dies Natalis UNY which consist of Speech and Micro-Teaching competitions. This competition was organized by UNYFEST #7 and it was collaborated with UNYSEF, UNITY, UNYTECH, and MAC.
The first day of UNESHCO #4 was preliminary rounds for speech participants. The 56 participants from 50 different universities were split into three chambers. There were two parts of preliminary, the first of which is persuasive speech. In this round, the participants were given the main theme which is Wonderful Indonesia, and they were convince audience to visit place in Indonesia. In the next round, the participants were challenged to deliver public address speech. There are eight possible topics containing an issue such as sexual harassment, depression, and education. The topics were determined by drawing lottery. From this on, there were eight participants who are picked to be the 8 octo-finalists.
On the next day, the octo-final round and micro teaching performance were ongoing. The 8 Octo-finalists were delivered their extemporaneous speech while the micro teaching participants performed their teaching skills in front of the judges. The result of both speech and micro teaching competition was announced at the closing ceremony of UNYFEST #7 in the Postgraduate Building, Yogyakarta State University. The first winner of speech competition was taken by Syecha Tsania Alaydrus from Sebelas Maret University, followed by respectively as the runners-up by Rinaka Gustavano from London School of Public Relation and Putry Amelia from Sumatra Utara University. And for Micro teaching competition, the first winner was Zulfa Hidayatur Rohmah from IAIN Ponoro, and followed respectively as runners-up by Noven Tri Wandasari from Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta University and Mia Refsi Choirunisa from Teknorat Indonesia University.
(Lana)
