Announcement April 2, 2010
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Once again, I want to inform that all posting from 1 till 6 are done as a course requirement for SKPD 1023 Language and ICT course under associate Prof Madya Datin Dr. Norizan Abdul Razak. And all the post are mainly author’s idea and opinion, unless the author had stated where the ideas were from (source).
Ok, sorry for being too FORMAL. Hehe..
p/s: Don’t sue me for using other’s reference, I am just an ordinary students and yes, I HAVE NO MONEY :p
Oh oh! I am sorry! I promise that this will be my last post.. EVER! Hehehe.. As for last, just want to wish all of ELS students GOOD LUCK for our exam! All the best to all! We can do it!! 
the end. tata 
Tutorial Activity Week 12 – 6th Post March 23, 2010
Posted by Aisyah Hashim in Uncategorized.Tags: concordance, corpus concordance english, how to use concordance, last tutorial post
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Annyeong! Hello! Hi! Apa khabar? LOL, why do I look so excited? Hehe. Well, we’ve come to the end of the post which is the 6th post! Yeayy! ;p But then I need to prepare and get ready for the slide presentation for next week 
Well, we move on to the 6th posting which is to Discuss about Concordance. But then, what actually concordance is? According to Encyclopedia Britannica, concordance is “literally agreement, harmony, hence derivatively a citation of parallel passages, and specifically an alphabetic arrangement of the words contained in a book with citations of the passages in which they occur.” So, the function of concordance is to bring together, in other words, to ‘concord’ passages of text which show the use of a word. Source
There are two types of concordance which is Online Concordance and Software Concordance. For software concordance, you need to install it first on you PC/Laptop but Online Concordance you only need to search it using your web browser without any installation needed. One example of concordance that I found on the Internet is Corpus Concordance English (v.6.3) on this link.
Corpus Concordance English (v.6.3)
Tutorial Activity Week 11 – 5th Post March 16, 2010
Posted by Aisyah Hashim in Uncategorized.Tags: adjective adverb test, examenglish, ICT UKM, IELTS, online test, quiz, TOEFL, TOEIC, usingenglish.com, vocab test
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Howdy guys! Its time for the 5th post of this blog and guess what? 1 post more to go! yeayy! LOL, sorry for being over excited! ;p Okay, for this week the students are required to read Computerized Testing page 299 of Online Language Proficiency Assessment in Online Teaching and Learning in ELT book and explain the advantages and disadvantages of online language testing. As for today at the tutorial class, we searched for the online language test using Mr. Google and tried the test ourselves. There are tons of websites that provide English Language test whether for free or fee. And of course, people are more into free things aite?
Before I show you couple of the example of online language test websites, I’ll sum up on what I had read on Online Teaching and Learning in ELT book page 299 first. Basically, the topic is about the development of online test for UKM students where it begins with LearningCare Platform. To stand beside the technology development nowadays, UKM had came out with the objective of UKM Strategic Plan 2000-2020 which related to ICT include UKM to lead the campus ICT agenda by upgrading the ICT literacy and culture activities. Besides, there’s a concept of K-campus by Aziz Deraman and Syahrul Fahmi (2003) which to establish a knowledge-centric e-campus. The knowledge services then are divided into two main categories which is education ICT – deal with instructions and content offered in non-linear formats for various users and management ICT – deal with staff and students databases eg: resumes, work record, students’ registration, final exam and etc. On the whole, it is about the platform that can integrated e-learning solution both for students and lecturers.
So, we move on to the example of Online Test that specifically in English Language. There are two websites that caught my attention which are Exam English and UsingEnglish.com.
Tutorial Activity Week 10 -4th Post March 12, 2010
Posted by Aisyah Hashim in Uncategorized.Tags: literature, literature for secondary schools, pmr literatures, poems, short stories, SPM english, spm literatures, the pearl
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Holla guys! We meet again and again and again for our next tutorial activity. As usual for this week, we had been given a task which is to find two url that can be used to teach literature for SPM. Oh, and today is the day the last year candidates get their SPM results. Hoping for the best to all of ya! its been 4 years now. oh, how I miss my school days. Ok, OFF TOPIC! hehe.. Lets back on track. For this activity, I chose novel titled ‘The Pearl”. My two selected websites are from Literature from Secondary Schools and SPM English. And yes, please please please click on the link because that is the function I put them there
Both of the websites are specifically designed for Secondary School students in helping them to understand their literature study more based on Malaysian curriculum and syllabus for English Language for Secondary Schools. For first website, it is a website with their own domain and server name which is http://literature.com.my/ that owned by a company named Just English Sdn. Bhd while the second website (or should I say blog?) use Blogspot as the domain; http://spmenglish.blogspot.com/ by a Secondary school teacher named “Fuzie”.
Literature from Secondary Schools
SPM English
From what I had explore on both websites, the content of websites are really suitable for Secondary School Students to view the websites which is literature material online as their additional reference besides the textbook. Besides novel The Pearl, there also The Prisoner of Zenda novel, Short Stories and Poems. Furthermore, the website also arrange them into a category such as synopsis, summary, setting, themes and others of each novel in the first website. Same goes with the second website where the plot, synopsis were put into category.
Literature from Secondary Schools
SPM English
Tutorial Activity Week 9 – 3rd Post March 8, 2010
Posted by Aisyah Hashim in Uncategorized.Tags: blogging, CMC, computer mediated communication, e-forums
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Hey there. We’ve come to the next posting of this blog which is in week 9. Well, for this week we were asked to read two books titled Online Learning and Teaching in ELT and Readings in Online Language Learning and Teaching which covered topic on Computer Mediated Communication (CMC).
Well then, first let me define what exactly CMC means. As defined by Levy (1997: 79) on page 163 in the book, it is “concerned with communication between two or more participants via a computer covering technological platforms such as e-mail, bulletin board, discussion list and computer conferencing, both text- and video-based”. So literally, it means that by using a computer as the medium in communication. By using CMC, it gave benefits and advantages to the user such as:
- provides more equitable platform and less threatening forum for second language discussion, as said by Warschauer, 1996.
- results in increased participation among students (Kem, 1995; Kelm, 1992; Beauvois, 1992)
- provides possibilities for new interpersonal contacts and communicative engagements (Beauvois & Eledge, 1996; Swaffar, 1998)
- acts as text-based medium that increases learners’ attention to linguistic form (Warschauer, 1997; Blake, 2000; Pallettieri, 2000; St. John & Cash, 1995)
- provides personalized identification of target language errors (Kelm, 1992)
- produces improved quality language output (Kern, 1995; Warschauer, 1996; Chun, 1994)
- provides opportunities for reflection and close attention to and correction of contributions made (Kroonenberg, 1994/1995; Sotillo, 2000)
- offers an effective tool for learner autonomy and empowerment (Warschauer et al., 1996; Shetzer & Warschauer, 2000)
Tutorial Activity – Advertising March 4, 2010
Posted by Aisyah Hashim in Uncategorized.Tags: advertising, compaq, compaq presario v3000, laptop
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Hi there peeps! We meet again for the next tutorial activity. But then, this time the tutorial activity differs from other since Dr. Norizan had asked us to do on the spot advertising, in a group. And the model had been chose by Dr. by picking up things around us. Then for our group, we have to do an advertising of a laptop. Well, its a type of ad that kinda attract people to buy your laptop So then, here’s the ad that our group came out with.
oh oh, please click on the picture to get a bigger size
So, whataya think then? Would you buy our product after you see this ad? No worries, I’ll give a higher discount if you give a nice comment. LOL :p
Tutorial Activity Week 8 – 2nd Post February 26, 2010
Posted by Aisyah Hashim in Uncategorized.Tags: A Glossary of Netspeak and Textspeak, David Crystal, list of netspeak, netspeak
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Good day to all. We meet again in this week 8 tutorial activity. As usual, we had been given a task from Dr. Norizan and this time the task is to write about Netspeak and refer to David Crystal‘s work.
Seeing the name of David Crystal, without any clue I started to googled his name first and I found his official website. Still have no clue, I tried to use a keyword “David Crystal Netspeak” and found few results regarding Netspeak. As what I know and read, David Crystal is the author of Language and the Internet and more than fifty books on the English language and linguistics, as well as being a dictionary writer. He has been a consultant, contributor, or presenter on several radio and television programs, including the BBC program “The Story of English.” Yes, he is a man that have things to do with languages, thats what I think of. Back then, he also a writer of a book titled “A Glossary of Netspeak and Textspeak” in 2004. I tried again to google for the book and unfortunately there’s no website that available to read the book without paying first. But then you can read the preview some pages of the book here.
David Crystal’s book : A Glossary of Netspeak and Textspeak
Back then, I tried to find what is the exactly NETSPEAK means. Basically, Netspeak is a phrase created by David Crystal which is it is the name given to the type of communication used in chatrooms and in messaging software such as msn messenger. Since the nature of text taking longer to type than say, it had been used to reduce time and sometimes to save space provided in typing the text. Plus it is sometimes very difficult to determine the tone of voice used by someone communicating through text.
A new way to communicate was required that would be faster to type and could also be manipulated to include feeling to the words. The new language being NetSpeak. This language uses a combination of abbreviations (including words created using digits as well as alphabetic characters), acronyms and emoticons. Abbreviations and acronyms are used to speed up the typing of messages. Example of abbreviations used are like: u which stand for you or ur that stands for your.
Nowadays, there are tons of Netspeak language that had been created mostly by netizens. The another examples are any1 that means anyone, afk for away from keyborad, m9 for mine or ftw means For The Win!. You can find an A-z list of Netspeak language here.
Thats all for now. Have a nice day
Tutorial Activity Week 7 – 1st Post February 17, 2010
Posted by Aisyah Hashim in Uncategorized.Tags: difference facebook myspace, facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, myspace, similarities facebook myspace, Tom Anderson
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Assalamualaikum and Hello to everyone. We meet again for the seventh tutorial activity but for the first activity using this wordpress blog. First of all, happy holiday to all students and hope you all have a great holiday Now let’s move to the activity which is for this week the students need to discuss the differences and similarities of two social networking and which one is the most preferred and why.
Before that , let me define what is Social Networking is. Social Networking is the interaction between a group of people who share a common interest and they use internet’s network groups (such as Facebook and Twitter) to network and communicate between other people. Based on eBizMBA on February 2010, Facebook had been the most popular social networking website with 93,300,000 visitors per month. The second place goes to Myspace with 61,300,000 visitors per month and Twitter with 28,000,000 visitors went to the third most famous social networking website. The others are like LinkedIn.com, classmates.com and Ning.com.
But today, I chose Facebook and Myspace social networking as the tutorial activity. (more…)
Tutorial Activity February 16, 2010
Posted by Aisyah Hashim in Uncategorized.Tags: blog effect, blogging, information literates, wiki effect, wikis
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Hello and Good Day to all. We meet again for the next Tutorial which discussed on How Blogs and Wikis Affect Your Writing. On a group, we had to make a slideshow using Microsoft Powerpoint and present it to fellow classmates and to Dr. This is what we had found upon the presentation:
Previous Tutorial Activity February 1, 2010
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Hey there. This post is to guide you through my previous posts that I had posted on Blogspot just in case you want to read them. So then, there are 4 tutorial activity;
Click on each Tutorial Activity and feel free to leave comments. Thank you : )
