Course: SKBP1023 Bahasa Dan Teknologi Maklumat
Age: 21
Tutorial Group: Dr Nadzrah Bt Abu Bakar
1. Do you enjoy blogging?
Yes i do enjoy blogging because through blogging, i have learnt a lot of new things in any fields and i can read others' blog as well where some of the blogs really catch my attention. I discover that blogging really can improve my language ability and though i can write better then before.
2. Based on your experience what is the benefit of blogging?
As i have mentioned above, blogging is an effective way to improve our language ability as well as our thinking skill ability. When we blog, we tend to use formal English because our readers might come from any parts of the world. If we use Malaysian English, though no one will be interested to read our blog. With that, our English will be improving day after day. Blogging is a way to make us think more creatively and critically. When we blog, we speak out our opinions which sometimes require us to think beyond our knowledge. Blogging can definitely enhance our thinking skill and gradually we will become a critical thinker.
3. Do you need more assistance to set up your blog?
I think by now it's just fine for me as i'm still a beginner and try to adapt myself to these blogging environment. Maybe in future i'll need more assistances to help me set up my blog.
4. Do you have any memorable/ favorite topic in your blog?
Yes i do have favorite topic in my blog. I like the topic 'share the blog you enjoy reading'. I have chosen a blog that is about living and travelling. This blog is really an informative blog and i do enjoy read almost every articles in it. Undoubtedly, i'm a natural lover and a shopaholic. Travelling is my hobby as well as my 'ambition'. I hope that my future career can let me travel all around the world.
5. List 5 advantages of blogging for you.
a) enhance my thinking skill
b) improve my writing skill
c) get more informations in every fields
d) know what is happening all around the world
e) get motivated through others blog
6. List 5 disadvantages of blogging.
a) Provocative blogs tend to raise unsatisfaction among the society
b) Some irresponsible people give wrong information on blog
c) Some people write their very own personal stuffs or pictures on blog that break the rules of blogging
d) Some companies create blog to cheat the public
e) Students will be more focus on blog than their study
7. Will you continue blogging after the course?
Of course. I think i have addicted to blogging. I realise that blogging is really fun and interesting as i can share my up and down with the reader. I can write whatever i see and hear on blog as i like to share good things with others. I can also look back at what i have wrote when i get older and recall the memory.
8. Do you think that blogging improve your writing?
Definitely. Through blogging i learn many new words and i occasionally apply them in my writing. Apart from that, i find that i begin to enjoy writing and i write longer and longer gradually. Although i know i have a very limited usage of English word, but i try my very best to insert new words or vocabulary in my writing and eventually i feel like i could write with more confident.
9. Do you think that we should continue with blogging activity for the next batch of students?
Yes. Perhaps the students should have blog before they enter university. This activity surely can beneficial them in every way.
10. Will you recomend your friend to blog?
Yes, that is for sure. After i begin to blog, i have recomended a friend to blog and the result is, he blog more than 3 hours daily.
11. Can you teach a friend to set up his/ her blog?
Of course, and i have successfully taught a friend to set up his blog.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Fifth Posting for Evaluation.
Articles about concordance.
I have successfully found 2 articles that are related to concordance. The links or websites of the articles are http://llt.msu.edu/vol13num1 and http://www.milwburnsclub.org/works/aboutc.htm. This two websites consist articles that relate to concordancing and its applications in language learning.
Summary of the articles that i have found.
Firstly, i would like to summarize the article from the first link. The use of a web-based concordancing program using an interface design similar to the one used at the MICASE concordancing site to help students appropriately choose reporting verbs. Appropriate reporting verbs are important for asserting credible claims in academic papers. An interface was created that asked the students to make lexical, syntactic, and rhetorical choices based on a preset number of criteria related to the decisions writers make in choosing reporting verbs. Based on these choices, the interface could query a database of sentences that had been derived from a corpus of academic writing. The user would then be provided with a small sample of sentences using reporting verbs that matched the criteria that had been selected. The paper discusses how the assumptions about pedagogy for teaching about reporting verbs were incorporated into the design features of the interface and how the implementation of the concordancing site was integrated with the teaching of grammar and vocabulary in an L2 academic writing class.
Summarization of the second article from the second link is that although concordance was initially introduced more than 20 years ago and has acquired a loyal user base, it is still sometimes erroneously compared with traditional database management software. However, the simple fact is that Concordance cannot be compared in any respect to a typical, general purpose database management program. On the contrary, Concordance is a highly focused program that features sophisticated text search and retrieval functions specifically designed for managing the high volumes of data generated in litigation. The primary purpose of this document is to provide the reader with greater insight into Concordance by clearly defining not only what it is, but also what it isn't. We'll start the process by looking at traditional database management and how it compares to text database management.
What are the benefits of concordance will give to language learning and language teachers?
Concordancing programs do not provide "correct" answers to queries about grammar and lexical questions but rather help create a learning environment where the user has to induce one appropriate answer from possibly many appropriate answers. As a result, concordancing programs not only provide a different role for grammar teachers but also a different approach for the learner. Learners must construct the best answers from the sample sentences without obtaining feedback on whether their answers are correct. Concordance has made grammar teaching more about making appropriate choices and less about learning prescriptive rules.
I have successfully found 2 articles that are related to concordance. The links or websites of the articles are http://llt.msu.edu/vol13num1 and http://www.milwburnsclub.org/works/aboutc.htm. This two websites consist articles that relate to concordancing and its applications in language learning.
Summary of the articles that i have found.
Firstly, i would like to summarize the article from the first link. The use of a web-based concordancing program using an interface design similar to the one used at the MICASE concordancing site to help students appropriately choose reporting verbs. Appropriate reporting verbs are important for asserting credible claims in academic papers. An interface was created that asked the students to make lexical, syntactic, and rhetorical choices based on a preset number of criteria related to the decisions writers make in choosing reporting verbs. Based on these choices, the interface could query a database of sentences that had been derived from a corpus of academic writing. The user would then be provided with a small sample of sentences using reporting verbs that matched the criteria that had been selected. The paper discusses how the assumptions about pedagogy for teaching about reporting verbs were incorporated into the design features of the interface and how the implementation of the concordancing site was integrated with the teaching of grammar and vocabulary in an L2 academic writing class.
Summarization of the second article from the second link is that although concordance was initially introduced more than 20 years ago and has acquired a loyal user base, it is still sometimes erroneously compared with traditional database management software. However, the simple fact is that Concordance cannot be compared in any respect to a typical, general purpose database management program. On the contrary, Concordance is a highly focused program that features sophisticated text search and retrieval functions specifically designed for managing the high volumes of data generated in litigation. The primary purpose of this document is to provide the reader with greater insight into Concordance by clearly defining not only what it is, but also what it isn't. We'll start the process by looking at traditional database management and how it compares to text database management.
What are the benefits of concordance will give to language learning and language teachers?
Concordancing programs do not provide "correct" answers to queries about grammar and lexical questions but rather help create a learning environment where the user has to induce one appropriate answer from possibly many appropriate answers. As a result, concordancing programs not only provide a different role for grammar teachers but also a different approach for the learner. Learners must construct the best answers from the sample sentences without obtaining feedback on whether their answers are correct. Concordance has made grammar teaching more about making appropriate choices and less about learning prescriptive rules.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Fourth Posting For Evaluation.
1) What is DOA- Dissertation Online?
DOA is ProQuest Dissertations and Thesis - an abstract of dissertations throughout the world.
2) What are the online databases subscribed by Tun Sri Lanang library?
There are many online databases subscribed by Tun Sri Lanang library such as Computer Database, EBSCOHOST, Education Full Text, Lisa Net, JSTOR and so on. Students are encouraged to go to PTSL and get the informations through these online databases which i find really useful and benificial to university's students. Students can find lots of articles related to any fields and faculties that they want through these databases.
DOA is ProQuest Dissertations and Thesis - an abstract of dissertations throughout the world.
2) What are the online databases subscribed by Tun Sri Lanang library?
There are many online databases subscribed by Tun Sri Lanang library such as Computer Database, EBSCOHOST, Education Full Text, Lisa Net, JSTOR and so on. Students are encouraged to go to PTSL and get the informations through these online databases which i find really useful and benificial to university's students. Students can find lots of articles related to any fields and faculties that they want through these databases.
Third Posting for Evaluation.
What are the similarities and differences between few seach engines?
I will talk about 4 seach engines, which are mamma.com, google scholar, ericdigests.org and yahoo.com. These four seach engines are commonly used nowadays. Firstly, let me introduce all the four search engines.
1) Mamma.com- a site owned and operated by Copernic Inc. (formerly known as Mamma.com Inc.)
2) Google Scholar- A freely-accesible Web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
3) Eric Digests- short reports on topics of prime current interest in education.
4) yahoo.com- An American public corporation headquatered in Sunnyvale, California that provides internet services worldwide.
Mamma.com is a "smart" metasearch engine - every time you type in a query Mamma cocurrently searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites, properly formats the words and syntax for each, compiles their results in a virtual database, eliminates duplicates, and displays them in a uniform manner according to relevance. It's like using multiple search engines simultaneously.
Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of the world's largest scientific publishers. It is similar in function to the freely available Scirus from Elsevier, CiteSeer, and getCITED. It is also similar to the subscription-based tools, Elsevier's Scopus and Thomson ISI's Web of Science. Google Scholar nonetheless claims to cover more websites, journal sources and languages.
Eric Digests targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community. It is designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic and references to items providing more detailed information. There are a large variety of topics covered including teaching, learning, libraries, charter schools, special education, higher education, home schooling, and many more.
Yahoo! provides a wide array of internet services that cater to most online activities. It operates the web portal http://www.yahoo.com/ which provides content including the latest news, Yahoo! Finance gives users quick access to other Yahoo! services like Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo! Groups and Yahoo! Messenger. The majority of the product offerings are available globally in more than 20 languages.
Among all these search engines, i would mostly prefer Yahoo! and Google Scholar. It is because this two search engines are widely used among students as well as workers in Malaysia. I prefer Yahoo! the most as in my opinion, it is the ultimate search engines where i can find all sorts of informations that i want. Apart from that, i can browse images that i want and find places through Yahoo!Maps which i find that is precise and accurate.
I will talk about 4 seach engines, which are mamma.com, google scholar, ericdigests.org and yahoo.com. These four seach engines are commonly used nowadays. Firstly, let me introduce all the four search engines.
1) Mamma.com- a site owned and operated by Copernic Inc. (formerly known as Mamma.com Inc.)
2) Google Scholar- A freely-accesible Web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
3) Eric Digests- short reports on topics of prime current interest in education.
4) yahoo.com- An American public corporation headquatered in Sunnyvale, California that provides internet services worldwide.
Mamma.com is a "smart" metasearch engine - every time you type in a query Mamma cocurrently searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites, properly formats the words and syntax for each, compiles their results in a virtual database, eliminates duplicates, and displays them in a uniform manner according to relevance. It's like using multiple search engines simultaneously.
Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of the world's largest scientific publishers. It is similar in function to the freely available Scirus from Elsevier, CiteSeer, and getCITED. It is also similar to the subscription-based tools, Elsevier's Scopus and Thomson ISI's Web of Science. Google Scholar nonetheless claims to cover more websites, journal sources and languages.
Eric Digests targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community. It is designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic and references to items providing more detailed information. There are a large variety of topics covered including teaching, learning, libraries, charter schools, special education, higher education, home schooling, and many more.
Yahoo! provides a wide array of internet services that cater to most online activities. It operates the web portal http://www.yahoo.com/ which provides content including the latest news, Yahoo! Finance gives users quick access to other Yahoo! services like Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo! Groups and Yahoo! Messenger. The majority of the product offerings are available globally in more than 20 languages.
Among all these search engines, i would mostly prefer Yahoo! and Google Scholar. It is because this two search engines are widely used among students as well as workers in Malaysia. I prefer Yahoo! the most as in my opinion, it is the ultimate search engines where i can find all sorts of informations that i want. Apart from that, i can browse images that i want and find places through Yahoo!Maps which i find that is precise and accurate.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Second Posting for Evaluation.
1) How blogging can assist language learners to improve and enhance writing skill?
Undeniable, blogging is a way to improve our writing skill and i find that it is really useful. Blogging is as good a practice field as any. We all know that if we want to improve in our writing, then we have to write regularly, perhaps daily. So if we blog a lot, i mean if we use the correct grammar and vocabulary in our blog, then gradually we can write better. Moreover, some of the readers will comment on our blog. These is a kind of learning through blogging. When they leave comment(s) in our blog (the comment(s) is/are more to vocabulary or grammar mistakes), we will try to avoid from making the same mistakes next time. With that, we will improve in our writing skill day after day. When we blog, we tend to use beautiful word or sentence so that we look clever. We will find or read articles from different sources like newspapers or magazines to get the beautiful words or sentences. We will put in effort so that our blog looks nice and interesting. With that, our writing skill will be improved sooner or later. There are some blogs that talk about blogging helps improve writing skill. For example, http://www.suptfelix.blogspot.com/, http://www.blogbusinessworld.blogspot.com/ and etc.
2) Share blog that you enjoy reading.
The blog that i enjoy reading is travel blog. The URL of the blog is http://www.traveloblog.com/. This blog is all about travelling. I like this blog because i like travelling, undoubtedly. Travelling is one of my hobbies and it is the way i choose to relax my mind and my soul. Inside this blog, there are many pictures of the tourist spots all around the world. There is a simple but complete explaination of the tourist spots. A map is provided for us to search for the interesting places in the blog. You can find all the interesting places inside this blog and some of the places you never heard before. For me this is a good blog as it gives me new travel ideas. You can post your articles in this blog so that you can share with others the interesting places that you have visited. I like this blog very much. I would like to share this blog to all of you who view my blog. Click the hyperlink above and enjoy your reading.
Undeniable, blogging is a way to improve our writing skill and i find that it is really useful. Blogging is as good a practice field as any. We all know that if we want to improve in our writing, then we have to write regularly, perhaps daily. So if we blog a lot, i mean if we use the correct grammar and vocabulary in our blog, then gradually we can write better. Moreover, some of the readers will comment on our blog. These is a kind of learning through blogging. When they leave comment(s) in our blog (the comment(s) is/are more to vocabulary or grammar mistakes), we will try to avoid from making the same mistakes next time. With that, we will improve in our writing skill day after day. When we blog, we tend to use beautiful word or sentence so that we look clever. We will find or read articles from different sources like newspapers or magazines to get the beautiful words or sentences. We will put in effort so that our blog looks nice and interesting. With that, our writing skill will be improved sooner or later. There are some blogs that talk about blogging helps improve writing skill. For example, http://www.suptfelix.blogspot.com/, http://www.blogbusinessworld.blogspot.com/ and etc.
2) Share blog that you enjoy reading.
The blog that i enjoy reading is travel blog. The URL of the blog is http://www.traveloblog.com/. This blog is all about travelling. I like this blog because i like travelling, undoubtedly. Travelling is one of my hobbies and it is the way i choose to relax my mind and my soul. Inside this blog, there are many pictures of the tourist spots all around the world. There is a simple but complete explaination of the tourist spots. A map is provided for us to search for the interesting places in the blog. You can find all the interesting places inside this blog and some of the places you never heard before. For me this is a good blog as it gives me new travel ideas. You can post your articles in this blog so that you can share with others the interesting places that you have visited. I like this blog very much. I would like to share this blog to all of you who view my blog. Click the hyperlink above and enjoy your reading.
First Posting For Evaluation.
READING FOR PLEASURE.
I have read or gone through a blog which i think i enjoy reading it. The blog URL is http://www.healthnewsblog.com/. The blog is all about health and it is very informative though. I learn a lot of things through the blog. There are many articles on health in this blog such as "vegetarian get less cancer", "doodling helps with retension", "six deaths linked to Salmonella Outbreak" and etc. Previously i don't really prefer the health articles as in my opinion, they are boring and it's hard to understand. With the appearance of this blog, i find that health articles are no longer boring and the articles inside this blog are short and it makes me understand better. And i find that healthy body is really important and there are ways to maintain a healthy body besides exercise regularly. Apart from that, i also learn many things about viruses and cancer and also how to cope with these kind of serious diseases. This blog is really informative and enjoyable when reading it. I suggest that whoever has viewed my blog, please click on the URL of this blog above and have a look. You will not regret of doing so.
I have read or gone through a blog which i think i enjoy reading it. The blog URL is http://www.healthnewsblog.com/. The blog is all about health and it is very informative though. I learn a lot of things through the blog. There are many articles on health in this blog such as "vegetarian get less cancer", "doodling helps with retension", "six deaths linked to Salmonella Outbreak" and etc. Previously i don't really prefer the health articles as in my opinion, they are boring and it's hard to understand. With the appearance of this blog, i find that health articles are no longer boring and the articles inside this blog are short and it makes me understand better. And i find that healthy body is really important and there are ways to maintain a healthy body besides exercise regularly. Apart from that, i also learn many things about viruses and cancer and also how to cope with these kind of serious diseases. This blog is really informative and enjoyable when reading it. I suggest that whoever has viewed my blog, please click on the URL of this blog above and have a look. You will not regret of doing so.
Online Reading.
1) Is the comprehension process different on the internet?
Yes it is. It is so much differ from the comprehension printed on paper or text as comprehension on the internet more convenient with the help of hyperlink and hypertext. We can search for the word that we don't understand by clicking the word (usually the word will be coloured).
2) If so, what new processes are required beyond those needed to comprehend conventional (traditional) print?
Through online reading, we can comprehend each comprehension via hyperlink, hypertext and hypermedia. These three processes helps a lot in our understanding of the comprehension that we read. What we have to do is just clicking the hyperlink, hypertext or hypermedia then the things that we want to find will appear eventually.
3) Are these processes extensions of traditional comprehension skills? Or, do web-based learning environment demand different skills?
Yes i do think that these processes are extensions of traditional comprehension skills. It is because we have to find word by word if we don't understand the meaning in the traditional comprehension. The hyperlink, hypertext and hypermedia definitely help a lot to the online readers to understand better.
4) What are the skills needed?
One of the skills is to understand the text and find out the main point of the text. With the help of hyperlink and hypertext, if we don't understand the text then it is worthless for us to read. Then, we also have to know how to search for the informations that we want on internet. We have to know what we want to find and how we can find the informations. Don't just sitting in front of the computer and search nothing for the whole day.
Yes it is. It is so much differ from the comprehension printed on paper or text as comprehension on the internet more convenient with the help of hyperlink and hypertext. We can search for the word that we don't understand by clicking the word (usually the word will be coloured).
2) If so, what new processes are required beyond those needed to comprehend conventional (traditional) print?
Through online reading, we can comprehend each comprehension via hyperlink, hypertext and hypermedia. These three processes helps a lot in our understanding of the comprehension that we read. What we have to do is just clicking the hyperlink, hypertext or hypermedia then the things that we want to find will appear eventually.
3) Are these processes extensions of traditional comprehension skills? Or, do web-based learning environment demand different skills?
Yes i do think that these processes are extensions of traditional comprehension skills. It is because we have to find word by word if we don't understand the meaning in the traditional comprehension. The hyperlink, hypertext and hypermedia definitely help a lot to the online readers to understand better.
4) What are the skills needed?
One of the skills is to understand the text and find out the main point of the text. With the help of hyperlink and hypertext, if we don't understand the text then it is worthless for us to read. Then, we also have to know how to search for the informations that we want on internet. We have to know what we want to find and how we can find the informations. Don't just sitting in front of the computer and search nothing for the whole day.
The impacts of blogging to students and society.
1) Students can improve their English language ability.
The above statement is true if the students use English when they are blogging. When we use English regularly or even daily, we tend to improve the language day after day. Many secondary and tertiary education students blog because they want to improve their English. Moreover, sometimes we get feedback from people who read our blog. We know where we make mistakes and we will correct from the mistakes especially the grammar and vocabulary.
2) Students can express their feeling through blogging.
Some students like to write than talk. Blogging is very suitable for these kind of people who prefer writes than speaks. For these kind of person, they will write anything they feel on blog. This is a kind of way they express their feeling. They shy to speak out, so they choose to write on blog so that they will feel better. We can see that there are many blogs that likewise to personal diary. The bloggers write anything they want and their purpose is to let everybody knows what they feel. This will lesson their stress and perhaps they will not think negatively when they receive the comments from the readers.
3) The society knows what is happening around them.
Blogging is a way to get informations about anythings such as education, job, entertaiment, sport and so on. There are people who put informations on blog to share with readers. There are blog that relate to beauty which suit the lady so much. The lady will know what is the latest fashion and hair style around the world. We also can get the news of the latest product of one's company from blog, perhaps the blog is belong to the company itself. Therefore, we would not be cheated about the price of the product as it is stated clearly on the blog of the company.
4) The society will be more unity or break apart because of blog.
Some blogs touch on sensitive topics such as races, religions and so on. These kind of blogs will definitely make some people feel uncomfortable and indignant. These kind of provocative blogs will be commented by readers who are either agree or disagree on them. These will raise unsatisfaction of some readers and lead to the 'war' in blog. Blog can bring a very big impact in the unity of a community or a society or even a country.
The above statement is true if the students use English when they are blogging. When we use English regularly or even daily, we tend to improve the language day after day. Many secondary and tertiary education students blog because they want to improve their English. Moreover, sometimes we get feedback from people who read our blog. We know where we make mistakes and we will correct from the mistakes especially the grammar and vocabulary.
2) Students can express their feeling through blogging.
Some students like to write than talk. Blogging is very suitable for these kind of people who prefer writes than speaks. For these kind of person, they will write anything they feel on blog. This is a kind of way they express their feeling. They shy to speak out, so they choose to write on blog so that they will feel better. We can see that there are many blogs that likewise to personal diary. The bloggers write anything they want and their purpose is to let everybody knows what they feel. This will lesson their stress and perhaps they will not think negatively when they receive the comments from the readers.
3) The society knows what is happening around them.
Blogging is a way to get informations about anythings such as education, job, entertaiment, sport and so on. There are people who put informations on blog to share with readers. There are blog that relate to beauty which suit the lady so much. The lady will know what is the latest fashion and hair style around the world. We also can get the news of the latest product of one's company from blog, perhaps the blog is belong to the company itself. Therefore, we would not be cheated about the price of the product as it is stated clearly on the blog of the company.
4) The society will be more unity or break apart because of blog.
Some blogs touch on sensitive topics such as races, religions and so on. These kind of blogs will definitely make some people feel uncomfortable and indignant. These kind of provocative blogs will be commented by readers who are either agree or disagree on them. These will raise unsatisfaction of some readers and lead to the 'war' in blog. Blog can bring a very big impact in the unity of a community or a society or even a country.
Websites Related to English Learning.
1) Do you like the websites? Why?
Yes i like the websites that i have gone through such as Web English Teacher, ESL and English Page. In Web English Teacher, there is a section called Literature (Prose). It is very useful to people who study in English Literature like me. I think it is very interesting and beneficial to me because inside the literature section there are many authors and titles. I read most of the stories inside such as Ambush by Tim O'Brien and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Apart from that, there is also study guide for us to follow the literary summaries and notes. For ESL , there are many vocabulary and grammar for beginner, intermediate, and advanced learner. We also can learn writing skill and listening skill inside this website. I tried the practices and i found that it is really useful when we talk about learning English online. For the English page, there are games that related to English learning such as eating out, the noun collection, very verby and word challenge. I found that the English Page is mostly on how to improve our grammar and vocabulary.
2) Do you like the website? Which one? Why?
Yes. I like Web English Teacher the most. Why? It is because inside the website there are plenty of stories and literary stuffs which suit to me. Moreover, there are also grammar and vocabulary that i can learn there. For example, Grammar Journals, Grammar Zone, Discovering Adjectives, Building A Better Vocabulary, The Dictionary Game,The Lexicon Challenge and so on. Apart from that, i also looked through the Writing Section such as Argument and Persuasive Writing, Writing To A Prompt, Narrative Writing, Avoiding Plagiarism and so on. I like this website as it really contains lots of things about English language especially the literature section that really attracts me.
3) Do you think that learning through the internet helps to improve your English? Why?
Yes, i do think that learning English through internet helps a lot in improving my English. It is because internet has a lot of websites about English learning and there are many things inside those websites which include vocabulary, grammar, literature and so on. We have lots more to learn about English through the internet. If compare to the English books or newspapers, i would rather choose online learning than the articles that printed on paper as i think online learning is more convenient with the appearance of hyperlink and hypertext.
Yes i like the websites that i have gone through such as Web English Teacher, ESL and English Page. In Web English Teacher, there is a section called Literature (Prose). It is very useful to people who study in English Literature like me. I think it is very interesting and beneficial to me because inside the literature section there are many authors and titles. I read most of the stories inside such as Ambush by Tim O'Brien and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Apart from that, there is also study guide for us to follow the literary summaries and notes. For ESL , there are many vocabulary and grammar for beginner, intermediate, and advanced learner. We also can learn writing skill and listening skill inside this website. I tried the practices and i found that it is really useful when we talk about learning English online. For the English page, there are games that related to English learning such as eating out, the noun collection, very verby and word challenge. I found that the English Page is mostly on how to improve our grammar and vocabulary.
2) Do you like the website? Which one? Why?
Yes. I like Web English Teacher the most. Why? It is because inside the website there are plenty of stories and literary stuffs which suit to me. Moreover, there are also grammar and vocabulary that i can learn there. For example, Grammar Journals, Grammar Zone, Discovering Adjectives, Building A Better Vocabulary, The Dictionary Game,The Lexicon Challenge and so on. Apart from that, i also looked through the Writing Section such as Argument and Persuasive Writing, Writing To A Prompt, Narrative Writing, Avoiding Plagiarism and so on. I like this website as it really contains lots of things about English language especially the literature section that really attracts me.
3) Do you think that learning through the internet helps to improve your English? Why?
Yes, i do think that learning English through internet helps a lot in improving my English. It is because internet has a lot of websites about English learning and there are many things inside those websites which include vocabulary, grammar, literature and so on. We have lots more to learn about English through the internet. If compare to the English books or newspapers, i would rather choose online learning than the articles that printed on paper as i think online learning is more convenient with the appearance of hyperlink and hypertext.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Introduction of myself.
My dream piano My name is Kevin Tang Hung Yun, or you can call me kev for short. I have just celebrated my 21 years old birthday few weeks ago. I'm born and grown up in Sibu, Sarawak and pursuing my study in UKM currently. I'm taking Literature in English (which i know that many people dislike the course) and i'm happy doing it. I have 6 members in my family. I'm the third out of four siblings. I have a deep interest in aeronautical stuffs so i do hope that my job in future will relate to this industry. I like to play piano so much. I love the music or sound produces by piano. It's so marvelous. The sports that i like include bowling, tennis, swimming and so on. My favourite food is definitely not other than my mom's cooking. My mom is the greatest cook i ever reached in my life. The person that i admire and love the most is my mom. She is an ordinary but supreme housewife. She helps up in my dad's business at the same time she takes care of us well.
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