Mastering English is necessary in this global era, but some people argue that English is difficult to learn so that strategic ways should exist to make English learning easy and exciting. One of the ways is learning English using various media such as using games as performed by American (Amcor) of Unversitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY).

“Amcor possess a number of digital games which can be utilized on Mondays at business hour, and Amcor also provides books to enhance English proficiency. Everyone may visit Amcor,” stated Director of Amcor of UMY, Puthut Ardianto when delivering a remark in Amcor Edufest 2016 at hall of Amcor of UMY on Saturday (14/5).

Besides promoting the facilities to s high school students of Yogyakarta, two students of SMP Negeri 5 Yogyakarta performed story telling and a student of SMA Negeri 6 Yogyakarta as well as the runner up of National English Speech Competition (NESCO) of UMY, Gea, delivered a speech. The other performance was broadcasting English news. The other agenda of the Edufest was workshop and a tour around stands. The workshop was discussing grammar by Puthut Ardianto, vocabularies by Sean Stelfox, an English language fellow from the United States.

“Introducing English skills and commemorating National Education Day, Amcor invite Muhammadiyah students in Yogyakarta. Amcor would like to show language skills and language learning through various media. Games can attract students to learn. It also aims at telling them that public may access Amcor,’ he mentioned.

The Edufest was to celebrate the anniversary of Amcor. Raising a theme ‘Amcor Edufest 2016: Creating Learning Society’ will motivate the participants, particularly pupils and students. “It is expected that students can apply the learning strategies and they are encouraged to learning since learning can be undertaken by using any media,” Puthut wished.