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.
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