ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
All of the postings in this blog starting from posting 1 until posting 6 are done as course requirement for SKBP 1023 Language and ICT under the supervision of Ass. Prof. Datin Dr. Norizan Abdul Razak.
IT’S THE END OF “WHAT A JOURNEY!”…..CONCORDANCE March 29, 2010
And finally…..
- Click on the Submit button to create and display the concordance results. The actual work is done on the SEAsite server and the results are sent back to your computer and displayed on the screen by your browser. This may take anywhere from a second to several minutes, depending on the amount of data to be sent back and forth and processed on the server.
The concordance output consists of
- the original text processed in a scrollable text box
- 0 to many concordance lines (the % number in the right-most column is the approximate position of the line in the text)
You can now
- examine the results on-screen
- save the results to disk
- print the results from your browser
Try this online concordancer for a clearer view how it really works…http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html
Hurmm….what was the question again???
O yeah here it is :
- Do I think that computer can assist me to become a better language learner?
Why yes of course… during my journey with this course, I’ve found out that there are lots of websites that provide guides for students like me and you to improve our English command in term of speaking, reading, writing and listening. I also can find many websites that contains quizzes and activities for me to do so that I can always detect my weakness in English language.
2. How effective is blogging in assisting me in the followings:
- confidence in writing
At first I thought blogging is only for people who afraid to express their feelings because they don’t have to confront people face-2-face in their blogs. Then, when I started to get use to blogging, I think it’s a good platform for us to show our skills of writing and ability to attract people’s attention through our writings. I have my own personal blog and I ise it to express my feelings and also as a medium for me to share informations and current updates about what’s happening to me in daily life. I keep my writing as fun and exiting as I could because I don’t want my readers to get bored easily by my writing, so I learn to write better by viewing other people’s blog and their character of writing. By doing that, I can use it as a guide to improve my writing so that it will be more informative and exciting.
- confidence in publishing my work
I don’t have to answer this question I think, because If I don’t have the confidence to publish my work I don’t think this blog exist today rite? Hihi so my answer is DEFINITELY YES. I told myself to be confident in publishing my work eventhough there might be mistakes here and there, but that’s how life should be rite? We learn from mistakes andthat mistakes can bring up our confidence level each time we try to improve our work so that it will be better in the future.
- getting ideas to write
Usually when I feel like writing something on my blog, I will browse though other people’s blog to search for ideas. Same like my writing, I refer to blogs to search for ideas and facts to help me write anything. Sometimes I do copy other people’s work (gotta admit it…) but I do change it uasing my own sentences so that I don’t promote plagiarism through my writings.
- improving my writing skills
Sometimes when I need help in my writing, I refer to some blogs that provide guides on how to do effective writing. Through that, I can improve my writing skills so that each time I do my writing, I will not make the same mistakes and my writing will give great impact to those people who read it.
3. If I’m going to use computer to teach language one day which language learning website will I recommend and why?
For me, I prefer http://www.englishpage.com/
This wbsite provides all the essential guides to a better command of English. There’s guides to improve our grammar, reading skills, listening skills and many more aspects of English. This website also contains activities in forms of crosswords that can be done by students as an exercize in class.
Yeah kids, it’s gonna be fun fun fun in English! If I become an English teacher in my future, I’m definitely gonna use this website to help me with my teaching.
SO LONG FOLKS!
Sad to know that I’ve reach the end of my posting for this blog Language and IT…but every meeting will come to an end rite? Hope to get good grades (i mean marks..hehe) for this blog from my lecturer. I’ve tried to do my best to finish all the assignments and tasks given to me and this is the results…Hurmmm maybe mine is not as fancy as other people’s blog but at least I know that I’ve done my best for this subject.
A big THANK YOU to all the people that involves and helping me during my blogging moments for this subject. Wish me luck for the final exam just near the corner, hope to see you guys next sem for more exciting learning experiences.
Signing off, sayonara!
HOW GOOD CAN YOU BE? March 22, 2010
Hiyaa people…. We’re asked to do this posting after we searched for English online tests or TOEFL tests online. Then, we need to review one of the online test that we’ve done according to some aspects that my lecturer has listed.
Ok now let us start evaluate —>> http://www.english-test.net/
This test is mainly about vocabulary test. The level of difficulties is divide into 3 section according to your level : elementary, intermediate, advance.
One of the advantages of this test is there is no time limit for each question you answer. So, you can take as many time as you want to answer it. This can help the weak students to learn to improve their level without any stress. This test also can give you immediate answer when you clik the ” CHECK YOUR SCORE” button.
This test will give you explanations on each of your answer and provide guides on how to answer that certain types of question correctly. The analysis of the question also can be use as guideline for you in studying English vocabulary.
This website can be use as a part of teaching activities in classroom or as an assesment test for ELS students to help them to improve their knowledge about English vocabulary.
There’s also some disadvantages of this online test. One of the disadvantages is there’s no supervision from the teachers when the students answer the test. The students may copy other student’s asnwer and they will never try to figure out the answer themselves. Students also can easily refers to dictionary or notes to find the answer all the questions. Actually, the objective of online test is to test student’s knowledge about grammar and vocabulary skills. If they refer to notes to answer the questions, then they will not be able to learn from their mistakes.
We are also required to study page 299 in the book “Online Teaching and Learning in ELT”. Overall, this chapter is about the research that has been made to develop a placement test to help to assist the Centre for Academic Development in UKM. The team had listed some criteria for the online test such as the specifications, content, format and timig, and also the level of performance. each criteria has its own specifications that crucial to help to develop the ideal online test system that can be apply.
