Saturday, 24th of april, at exactly 2:00 PM English deparment students held the very first discussion in a long series of weekly discussions named Weekly Freetalk. In this premier session, the discussion was moderated by Ahmad Ismail, and was driven by two presenters namely Naufal Ridho and Muhammad Faqih Sampurno.

The discussion started with an opening statement by the English department’s secretary, Febriyanti Dwiratna Lestari. The topic of the discussion was regarding “does homework help students learn?”. The discussion was fairly active, students took turn to give interesting arguments.

The presenters of the discussion represent two different opinions regarding the topic. Muhammad Faqih Sampurno represented those who thinks that most homework is not actually helping students learn. He even argued that most homework is actually burdening students. On the contrary, Naufal Ridho represented those who are in full support of the argument that homework helps students to learn.