Final questions…….

Its me again continuing my posting. I’m going to answer few final questions in this posting………

1. Do you think that computer can assist you to become a better language learner?

My answer is……… YES, why not. Computer really assist me to become a better language learner. Computer has many softwares that are very useful to me. For example, when I’m typing my English essay, the software in the computer will help to check my spelling and grammar. The software will automatically correct my typing error and give me a notification when my sentence contains grammatical mistakes. The software will give me few suggestions to correct my sentence. This really help me as I can know where is my mistakes and avoid myself from making the same mistake in my writing again in the future. Besides, the Internet has many useful resources and many language websites, for example English language website. I can go to the English language websites to learn more. The websites contain many exercises which I can do as a practice. As the saying goes “Practice makes prefect”, by practicing doing the exercises in the websites, I can eventually improve my English learning. I can also get many extra information through the internet when I want to do my assignment. To sum it up, computer has changed the way I learn. I can become a better language learner with the help of computer. Thanks to the creater of computer………    

2. How effective is blogging in assisting you in the followings. A.Confidence in writing  B.Confidence in publishing your work C.Getting ideas to write D.Improving your writing skills

Frankly speaking, I don’t know anything about blogging before. After taking this course, SKBP1023 “Language And Information Technology”, I was exposed to blogging by my respective lecture, Prof. Madya Datin Dr. Norizan. Blogging has changed the way I write. I used to write or finish my homeworks and assignments on a piece of paper, sometimes I do type it out too. But, now I start to type everything into my blog or wordpress without doing any draft. I can say that blogging has boosted my confidence level in writing as I tend to type anything I want into my blog or wordpress without any hesitation. Without considering about grammatical mistakes, I just type evertything that I know about the topic that I’m working on. (You can see this scenario at my previous posting……. Hi Hi Hi). After, I typed my posting. Naturally, I have the confidence to publish my works to everyone. I just don’t know why. Maybe, after my effort of searching the information, resourses and references through the internet, I have the natural self confidence to publish my works to everyone. By blogging, I can get many new and fresh ideas to write. When I’m clueless, I can search through the internet for more information and that is how I usually get my new ideas in writing. Blogging has really improved my writing skills. When I’m blogging, I can view many resources online as well as my friends’ blog and I can see how other people write. By observing their writing style, I can improve my own writing skill too. In my point of view, I think blogging is fun and blogging has changed the way I write.       

3. If you are going to use computer to teach language one day, which language learning website will you recommend? Elaborate why do you recommend that website. If you dont have any recommendation and would like to develop your own website explain what, why and how.

Ehmmmm. I will surely introduce the websites or url in my third tutorial activity (locate resources for learning English) posting. (You can click the url above to view my third tutorial activity) 

 http://abangazlan89.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/third-tutorial-activity-locate-resources-for-learning-english/

One of the website that I want to introduce is

http://www.free-english-study.com/

Why I recommend this website? This website is very complete as it contains all the English learning skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. We can get everything about English through this websites. we can learn and practice all the English learning skill through this website too. Futhermore, this websites has many exercises which students can do. This website also contain many pictures which can easily attract people.  If I am to teach English one day, I will surely recommend this website.  

That all from me. Bye………

Sixth Posting (And this is our final posting…… Concordance/Concordancer)

“Da Jia Hao”……. Hi. Its me again, Azlan updating my wordpress. Time passes really fast and this will be my final posting or task for the course SKBP1023 ”Language And Information Technology”. I will like to take this chance to thank Prof. Madya Datin Dr. Norizan for teaching and guiding me throughout this semester. I really learned lots of new things through this course. To all my coursemates, good luck in the coming final examination. Let go on to my final posting.

Once again, we are required to answer few questions. This week, we learned something about concordance or concordancer in our lecture. What is concordance??? Do you have any ideas? It is something about dance as we can see the word “dance” in concordance……. Stop guessing, I’m going to define the word concordance for you now.

Concordance is

 A concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, with their immediate contexts.                                                                                                                                                                                         Reference/Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordance_(publishing)

An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word: a concordance of Shakespeare’s works.                                                                                                                                 Reference/Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/concordance

An alphabetical list of the chief words used in a book or by a writer, with the passages in which they occur identified or cited.                                                                                                                                                                                                 Reference/Source: http://www.yourdictionary.com/concordance

An alphabetical index of all the words in a text or corpus of texts, showing every contextual occurrence of a word: a concordance of Shakespeare’s works.                                                                                                                               Reference/Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/concordance

After defining what is concordance, I’m going to introduce a website contains concordancer……..

Concordancer: http://www.edict.com.hk/concordance/

How to use the concordancer.

1. Click on the website. (The url provided)

2. Then, click on the word “Simple Search” and you will get this page. Its the concordancer.  

3. Type the word that you want to search into the search string column. After that, select the corpus and click the “search for concordance” button. For example, I want to search occurence of the word “Alice”. I type the word “Alice” in the search string column. Then, I select the corpus “Alice In The Wonderland by Lewis Carroll” and I click the button.

4. This is what I got……

That all about concordance and concordancer…….. Click on the links that I provided if you want to use the concordancer. The information above are taken from the internet. I do not own any of the information. Do click on the links for further reading. All credits go to the links provided. Thanks for viewing my final posting. Do drop some comments…….