POSTING 6- CONCORDANCE
This posting is done by Kuan Chai Lai (A119584) and me, Khor Hei Ling (A121138).
Purpose of this article is let us know that the use of a corpus in language teaching and learning and also efficiently of it without analyzing the concordance lines. The data is taken from EMAS corpus that was collected in 2002 and involves around 500,000 words in it. This research was done by using the students that involved Primary 5, Form 1 and Form 4 students to write an essay to investigate the language development. A different topic of essay was given to different group of students. The topic of the essay is for elicit the amount of language as much as possible. Hunston (2002), says, “The essence of work on learner corpora is comparison.” So, we can say that language development in this article is compared with the three different ages of groups. In this article, the study on language development includes the language productivity, range of vocabulary and also sophistication of vocabulary. Language productivity is indicated by the number of sentences per essay and the words per sentence. The result shows that older students can produce longer essay and also more complex sentences compare with younger students. Besides, range of vocabulary is determined by calculating the type to token ratio. This article defines that a larger type to token ratio is an indication of a wider range of language used. On the contrary, lower ratio maybe is an indication of an over-reliance on a limited set of words. According to this study, the type to token ratio gradually increases from the younger to the older age groups. This represents that the older students use a wider range of vocabulary in their essays. This article also shows that two possible reasons contribute to the low type to token ratio that is the nature of the written text itself and the nature of the data itself. A modified type to token ratios for the three age groups is done due to these two possible reasons. The result shows that the type to token ratios became more acceptable and the values also show an increase in higher age groups. We can use Range (Nation, 2002), a vocabulary analysis program, to determine the sophistication of vocabulary. The program uses several base lists of frequently used words to compare the text. The first base lists includes the most frequent 1000 words in English. The second includes the second most frequent 1000 words and the third includes words not in the words in the previous lists but are frequent in upper secondary and university levels from a wide range of subjects. These three base lists include the base form of words and derived forms. The result shows that a clear development in the sophistication of vocabulary used. Primary 5 students (63.5%) used more words in the first category of most frequent 1000 English words compared with Form 1 students (57.9%) and Form 4 students (44.5%). Form 4 students had higher percentage of words used in the academic base list (5.2%) and in the unlisted category (28.1%) than other age groups. It can be say that older students prefer to use a wider range of words and more sophisticate words. In conclusion, this article tried to show the relevance and also efficacy of corpus data in investigating language development. Corpus data is very useful to tell us the language development. We can use this present data to compare with the future data to assess the development of the language program in Malaysia in the future.
CONTENT ANALYSIS
Content analysis can also be known as the analysis of text with the aid of algorithmic techniques. Content analysis included of qualitative analysis and it is used primarily in the social sciences. According to Stemler, 2001, content analysis is a systematic, replicable technique for compressing many words of text into fewer content categories based on explicit rules of coding. Furthermore, the words extracted from the textual data for concording or statistical computation is involved in building and applying a concept of dictionary or fixed vocabulary of terms.
This technique is used because we often unable to analysis a whole long text systematically. This is because we often left out some important or others detail because of the text tend to be too large. In content analysis we often analysis it through some aspect, there are:
- Genre – Analysis about the kind of text such as novelistic, poetic, bureaucratic or legal. Moreover we analysis whether it is originally written or delivered orally. We can also analysis what features the text has whether it is formal or informal and where we can spot this features.
- Rhetoric and vocabulary – This will define a particular way of speaking, writing and to shape the vocabulary. For example, how frequently particular words appear.
- Social or psychological circumstances – Familiarity with the social circumstances surrounding the creation of the text can be relevant. It also known or suspected psychology of the author or speaker.
- Historical circumstances– The more you know about the historical circumstances under which the text was produced the better.
- Nature of the artifact– The physical object, from which the text has been taken, usually a printed book, may be relevant. These, give reason to press about the analysis, and more clearly about the religious character assemblies to which it spoke direct to the corresponding language.
THE SAMPLE OF ARTICLE ABOUT CONTENT ANALYSIS.
The lying game
Don’t write off David Irving just yet – he’s seen this all before
The David Irving libel trial: special report
- Richard Ingrams
- The Observer,
- Sunday April 16 2000
- Article history
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This article appeared in the Observer on Sunday April 16 2000. It was last updated at 23:23 on April 15 2000.
After a lengthy High Court libel action culminating in a massive five-figure award of damages, the judge made a devastating attack on the historian David Irving, whom he described as ‘a slippery and fly character’. In spite of everything, Irving announced his intention of lodging an appeal.
That was 30 years ago when Irving was found to have libelled Captain John Broome RN in his book The Destruction of Convoy PQ 17. Anyone like myself who remembers not only that action but other similar episodes – such as that surrounding General Sikorski (when Irving helped to promote the absurd idea that Winston Churchill had ordered the murder of the Polish wartime leader), or the Hitler diaries (revealed by Irving in quick succession to be fake and then genuine) – must find it strange that Irving is still considered to be a man with a reputation to lose.
‘Journalists are supposed to be slapdash,’ wrote the late A.J.P. Taylor, ‘academics to be cautious scholars. I do not think this distinction has any validation.’ Even in these degenerate days I doubt very much with a record like his whether any newspaper editor would touch David Irving with a bargepole. For a start, the risk of expensive libel damages would deter them.
Fellow historians, however, are even now, after all that has happened, still prepared to put in a good word for him. Sir John Keegan, the Daily Telegraph’s military historian, seemed to value Irving higher than his victorious opponent in the recent libel action, Professor Deborah Lipstadt. Lipstadt was boring but Irving, he wrote, ‘has many of the qualities of the most creative historians’. He ‘still has much that is interesting to tell us’. Professor D.C. Watt seemed to think Irving had somehow done us all a good turn by questioning the reality of the Holocaust. ‘The truth,’ he concluded mysteriously, ‘needs an Irving’s challenges to keep it alive.’
In the light of such tributes, anyone who naively thinks that David Irving has somehow been finished off by last week’s libel verdict should think again. Journalists may damn him but the professors, the so called ‘experts’, will help to keep the flame burning. We need a liar; it seems, to help to lead us to the truth.
Greedy bankers
Along with most business operators, the Government has discovered how much money you can save by paying or charging people directly via their bank accounts.
I predict that sooner or later we will be told that we have to pay more for, say, our annual TV license, if we refuse to pay by direct debit and insist on sending an old-fashioned cheque.
Meanwhile, small post offices are in a state of crisis because the Government want to stop them paying out cash benefits to pensioners and others because, they say, it will be easier and cheaper to pay them directly into their bank accounts.
The trouble with this argument is that it coincides with the news that Barclays Bank, for one, is busy closing down its branches all over the country, leaving people, especially in rural areas, without any kind of banking facility. So the real possibility exists that many of these people will eventually be left with neither post office nor bank.
It is pointless for critics to rail against Barclays Bank for their anti-social behavior, as if bankers had some kind of obligation to the community as a whole. The object of banks is to enrich themselves by whatever means possible – and to hell with the well-being of the punters.
In the old days when greedy capitalists failed to provide for the needs of the public, the Government would be urged to step in and do something about it by, for example, providing its own bank or at least allowing the Post Office to expand its operation to include banking. Such a solution, however, would smack of socialism – and we don’t want anything like that again, do we?
Funny old world
When I had to launch the Oldie magazine some years ago, I remember being interviewed by Canadian television about my attitude to old people and what we termed the youth culture. Afterwards the interviewer told me that I wouldn’t be able to talk gaily, as I had done, about oldies if I had been in Canada. Old was now considered to be a dirty word there, like blind or fat. The old folks were nowadays referred to in public as ‘mature Canadians’.
It is a general rule that any ludicrous idea thought up by Americans (or Canadians for that matter) sooner or later will be adopted on this side of the Atlantic.
We are not yet faced with a Fattist Rights movement but that may only be because we don’t have anything like the number of serious fatties that they have in America.
With oldies, however, changes are already afoot. Mr Alistair Darling is about to be appointed by Mr Blair as a Minister for the over-50s and it has simultaneously been reported that civil servants are even now trying to ‘rebrand’ the old with a new name that will appeal to younger people. Outsiders too have been invited to come up with suggestions.
But the Government, of all people, ought to know that you cannot alter the public’s perceptions just by changing a name. If the youth despise the oldies they will go on despising them even if they are taught to call them senior citizens or ‘mature English persons.’
Some time ago, faced with the bad image of Windscale, the nuclear re-processing plant in Cumbria, they changed its name to Sellafield and hoped that no-one would notice. But now Sellafield is just as dirty a word as Windscale ever was.
REFENRENCE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/apr/16/irving.comment
http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/legacy/teaching/av1000/textanalysis/method.html
1 comment April 7, 2008 khorheiling
POSTING 5-RESULT OF UJI ICT TEST
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My experience in doing uji ICT test is very interesting because I learn some new term about computer system and program. It is kind of hard for me because we have to do it in Malay language where the computer term is totally different from the English. We have not been taught or come up with Malay term before. Therefore it is really confusing for me when I see those terms in Malay. The ability of this test to provide immediate feedbacks helps us to define our mistakes on the spot and we get to learn from our mistakes. Furthermore, it helps us learn the term that we have never seen before. The score given immediately can let us know what level we are in the ICT area. The randomization in the question can avoid us from getting the same set of question when we overdo the test. Moreover we can avoid cheating from happening when we taking the test given. While the security features were safe and fair to everyone who takes this online test. This test is really different from our actual written examination.
1 comment April 3, 2008 khorheiling
4th POSTING-MY EXPERIENCE USING BLOG
Through all the posting that I have done I found that it really helps me in my writing skill. In the process of blogging I have been searching for a lot of information about the posting title or assignment given from the library and via Internet. With this, I manage to increase my knowledge level about some articles or information that I have never read before. Through this it can helps me to write well in my writing by giving me a lots of ideas and new vocabulary. Furthermore, blogging helps me a lot in my SKBE1033 Written Communication where I need to write some chronological order, cause and effect and argumentative essay. I can also find information easily via Internet because I have been taught of it through blogging. It has improves my writing skill in many aspects such as the new vocabulary that I have never use before, the organization of my writing, the grammar aspects, paraphrasing or summarizing an article that I have read and many more.
On the other way, I think that blog is a useful learning experience for me because it improves my writing skills. Blogging is also very enjoyable experience for me because I can post music, pictures, videos and many more. It entertained me because I enjoyed the procedure in finding of the videos music or making the slideshow even when I choosing the pictures that I want to post. I can even share my pictures or videos with my friends and other blogger. Meanwhile, I will receive comment about the posting that I have done whether they love it or criticized it and make improvement towards it.
I think that I need to know about computerized reading, computer assisted writing, the impact of using ICT/wireless technology in education, concordances and many more before I can complete the blogging activity successfully.
There are some problems that I faced when using blog such as how to upload a song or videos and even decorate the blog to attract readers or bloggers. I have to examine the function in the blog and try every function so that I can know what I can do with it. On the other hand, I was given a limited time to finish up my posting so it is kind of difficult for me but I managed to overcome it. Sometimes the topic given confused me what it’s really wanted and how should I perform or write it. I have solved it by asking my lecturer about it and she really helps me a lot by giving me examples and instruction.
I have told my friends and also recommended them about blogging. I will continue to recommend my friends about blogging. They have visited or browse my blog earlier. Moreover, some of them already have a blog of their own. We have shared some experience in blogging and viewed each other blog.
Now that I’m able to blog online I will continue using it even after the course of SKBP is over. This is because I find it is interesting and meaningful when blogging. Continuous blogging can help me neither in my writing nor releasing my tension by expressing my feeling or telling the updated me in the blog. I can also widen my social life by blogging where I can share my happy and unhappy moment with everybody.
At last, I hope that everyone who browsed my blog is entertained by my posting and are welcome to leave your comment about my blog.
Thank you.
1 comment March 31, 2008 khorheiling
Vanessa Anne Hudgens – Baby, Come Back To Me
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3rd POSTING – THE IMPACT OF USING ICT/WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION (HANDPHONE, PDA, BLUETOOTH AND SATELITES)
i have chosen this title because there are many impact of using ICT/wireless technology that we can found whether it is beneficial or not in the educational field. I have gone to Tun Sri Lanang and get information from online databases hosted at the Tun Sri Lanang library about this title at Wednesday around 12pm to 4pm.
There are a few impacts that I have found, we can see those impact in two aspects there are between the learner perceptions or the teacher perceptions. On the learner perceptions, by using ICT/wireless technology it can improve engagement in learning, increase motivation to learn, improve process skills, enable learning to be tailored to each student’s needs and interests. Furthermore, it provides an opportunity for all students to have access to computers, thereby reducing the digital divide and enhance individual learning and independence. Moreover, it fosters collaboration and teamwork among students.
By using ICT/wireless technology student can use computer to finish up their assignment and find information easily through the Internet. They can do many task using ICT/wireless technology. There is no more black board and chalk teaching method where it is kind of boring. Through ICT/wireless technology teachers or lecturer can assign homework or assignment through e-learning such as the national university portal. Teachers or lecturer also can distribute their notes easily through e-learning. Students can communicate with their teachers or lecturer instantly through the Internet or the other professional people. Student who are shy or have certain problem in dealing with teacher face to face now can communicate well with their teacher or lecturer. We can find more activities or program related to the education in the Internet. Thus learning becomes more interesting through ICT/wireless technology.
While towards teachers using ICT/wireless technology can increase enthusiasm for teaching, improve efficiency in lesson-plan creation; enhance collaboration and sharing of materials among teachers. Furthermore, enable structured approaches to research and improved skills in basic computer operations. Teachers utilize ICT in project-oriented, collaborative and experimental ways. Through this, the teacher becomes more of an advisor, critical dialogue partner and leader. There are two types of ICT found particularly useful by teachers are the Internet (particularly Broadband Internet) which are useful for providing structured approaches to research and to develop student’s research skills (which are transferable across the curriculum).Interactive whiteboards that are useful for enhancing interactivity in the classroom and keeping the attention of students (particularly primary-school students).
Teachers now can use ICT in teaching such as our course Language and Information Communication Technology teaches us that using ICT can improve our language, writing skill and many more. Teachers use the programs like Microsoft office, graphic calculator, electronic blackboard and etc.The Study found that the use of ICT is leading to significant changes in classroom teaching and learning. With the integration of ICT into teaching and learning, teachers no longer lecture in front of the classroom while students take notes. Instead, in ICT-integrated classrooms students are often actively engaged in “constructivist activities”, such as searching for information, designing materials, and presenting the results of their work. Such activities often involve student collaboration, within the classroom and online.
The teachers’ roles in many cases were to create structure for students by organizing student activities and monitoring student performance. In many cases, teachers collaborated with other teachers and sometimes teachers collaborated with other professionals, including scientists and business people.The amount and quality of feedback provided to the learner has an impact on the learning process. Personalized feedback is particularly important to the effective delivery of e-learning courses. E-learning delivery methods such as web-based instruction are required to overcome the barriers to traditional-type classroom feedback. Thereby, the feedback for a learner should consist not only of adaptive information about his errors and performance, but also of adaptive hints for the improvement of his solution.
Furthermore, the tutoring component is required to individually motivate the learners. In this paper, an adaptive assessment and feedback process model for personalized e-learning is proposed and developed for the purpose of maximizing the effects of learning. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
Handphone, PDA, Bluetooth and satelite
Hand phone, PDA, Bluetooth and satellite is another ICT technology that can influence the educational field. In today’s advanced technology, we can use our hand phone to surf the Internet or receiving SMS or MMS instantly. With this, we can communicate with others easily and get updated with new notes or info everyday. PDA is a hand phone which designed for those business people or others where it can store more files and surf the Internet widely. Bluetooth can help the students to transfer their files or assignment from friends, via Internet and phones easily without plugging some cable into the computer. Satellite has opened up more possibility for the local and global communication and wireless technology.
In conclusion, the impact of using ICT/wireless technology bring more advantages to the education and less disadvantages.It is just the way we use the ICT/wireless technology that can influences our lifes.If we use it in a proper way for suitable task then there is no problems will occurs.
Resources and references;
- International Journal of Education and Development using ICT – Vol_ 3, No_ 1 (2007).htm
- Alexey Semenow, Moscow Institute of New Technologies, Russian Federation Elena Bulin-Sokolova, Centre of Information Technologies and Learning Environments, Russian Federation, Information and Communication Technologies in Schools, UNESCO 2005.
- http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/wireless.html.
- www.icte.orgT99_LibraryT99_194.PDF
- Robert J. Seidel, Martin L. Rubin, Computers and Communications Implications for Education 1977(LB 1028.3.C65 1975)
- David H. Wyatt, Computers and ESL, 1984, lb 1028.5.W93
3 comments March 17, 2008 khorheiling
Posting2-Computer Assisted Writing
Nowadays because of the advances in technology the role of computer started in our educational field. Many of us who are old enough look back with incredulity on the days when we used longhand and typewriters as our composition tools and sought print materials as our reference tools.But today’s student enjoy using computer to produce text and the Internet to access information when they engage in the writing process.
There are many activities we can find from the internet where it can improve our writing skills such as e-mail, blogging, chat room, newsgroup and many more. We write e-mail often and when we write e-mail we did not need to worry about the grammatical aspect. What we concern about is the content or ideas that we want to write or present. This could help us develop our writing skill eventually.Blogging is a place where we express our feeling and thought. It can also can be define as a diary because we write our daily activity or a very important incident/events that happens in our life. Furthermore, writing a blog we are out of the control of formats and grammatical aspects. We are freely to write in our comfortable ways to presents our ideas and feeling.Through, this we can improve our writing skills gradually and helps us invented the best way of writing techniques. While in chat room and newsgroup, we write instantly or on the spot to communicate with others.This can practice our minds or natural reflects when we have to face under pressure writing.For example, in the examination we are given some task to write in a period of time.With this activities we can improve or increased our basic knowledge so we can think of some new ideas to write on the spot.
Not only that, by using computer assisted writing we can improve our writing easily because its motivates all students to participate, making the classroom more student-driven, reduces passivity, allows for “real-time” composing and revising,increases the chances that students will internalize the modeling that they observe, enables students to compose using the same techniques they use on their own machines, allows students to see peer work and feel more confident about their own work and it is much less expensive to implement than a writing lab.
Next, the software that I have found that related to computer assisted writing is reference and educational software, entertainment software, and application software for communications.Reference software provides valuable and thorough information for all individuals.For examples, encyclopedias, dictionaries, health/medical guides,maps and travel directories.While the educational software is a software where teaches a particular skill.This software often includes games and on the content to make the learning experience more fun and interesting.This software uses computer-based training or computer-aided instruction which student learn by using and completing exercises with instructional software.Entertainment software includes interactive games, videos, and other programs designed to support a hobby or provide amusement and enjoyment.For instance, we can use this software to play games individually or with others online, make a family tree, listen to music or fly an aircraft.Finally application software, such as e-mail, FTP, web browser, video conferencing, internet telephony, newsgroup, chat room, instant messaging and blogging.E-mail is messages and files sent via network such as internet.FTP is a method of uploading and downloading files with other computer on the internet.Web browser allows user to access and view web pages on the internet.While video conferencing is a meeting between geographical separated people who use a network.Internet telephony allows users to speak to others users over the internet.Newsgroup is a online area where users have written discussions.Chat room is a real-time,online typed conversation.Instant messaging is a real-time exchange of messages, files, audio and video with another online user.Last, blogging is a time-stamped articles, or posts, in a diary journal format, usually listed in reverse chronological order.
You can find some activities about computer assisted writing here,
· www.ericdigest.org/1995-2/computer.htm
· http://www.sunsite.utk.edu/cod/pec/products/2004/25schmit.doc
· www.ammerlaan.demon.nl/WRITING.HTM
You can find the software used at;
· Chiron.valdosta.edu/are/vol ln02/litrer/karenkelly.pdf
· Writing.colostate.edu/guides/research/observe/pop4c.cfm
· www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?article ID=10810504
· www_writing.berkeley.edu/tesl-ej/ej03/a3.html
1 comment March 11, 2008 khorheiling
Posting 1-Reading Comprehension
For this posting, Kuan Chai Lai A119584 and I have get together to do this analysis of reading comprehension. We decided to choose reading comprehension because it’s a common thing that every people will do when learning english or attending for their english classes.They will not realised that with doing reading comprehension their english languages will be improve by times.
From what I and Chai Lai found in wikipedia, reading comprehension can be defined as the level of understanding of a passage or text. For examples, normal reading rates (around 200-220 words per minute) an acceptable level of comprehension is above 75%. Proficient reading comprehension depends on the ability to recognize words quickly and effortlessly. If word recognition is difficult, students use too much of their processing capacity to read individual words, which interferes with their ability to comprehend what is read.
EXAMPLES OF READING COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES
Sample 1;
Advice for a Shy Guy
(Two friends talking over lunch)
John: I just don’t know what to do. She’s so beautiful, but I don’t know what to say…
Alan: It can’t be all that bad. She’s just a person like you or me…
John: What should I do? Should I ask her on a date?
Alan: Why don’t you go a little more slowly? Just sit down next to her in the cafeteria, or in class. Anywhere. Say, ‘Hi, how are you?’, ‘My name is John.’ You know, the simple things.
John: But she’ll just turn away.
Alan: No, she won’t. She’ll say ‘Hi, nice to meet you.’. You should be more confident.
John: That’s easy for you to say.
Alan: Would you like me to speak to her first?
John: NO, you are too dangerous!
Alan: What? Dangerous? What are you talking about?
John: Oh come on, you know all the girls are crazy for you.
Alan: Please … you’re joking!
John: Anyway, what should I do?
Alan: You should go over there now. You should introduce yourself and have a conversation. It’s as easy as that.
John: OK, here I go …
Alan: Good luck. And remember, SMILE!
Check your understanding with this multiple choice comprehension quiz.
Dialogue – Advice for a Shy Guy
Choose the correct answer to these questions based on the dialogue. Each question has only one correct answer. When you are finished click on the “Next Question” button. There are 5 questions in this quiz. Try to use only 30 seconds for each question. At the end of the quiz, you will receive feedback. If you had any problems, try reading the dialogue again: Advice for a Shy Guy
Q: What is John afraid of?
Going on a date with a girl
An upcoming test
Introducing himself to a girl
Q: What does his friend suggest?
Asking her out on a date
Sitting down next to her and making conversation
Asking her to marry him
Q: What does Alan think John needs to be?
Less confident
More confident
More dangerous
Q: Why does John not want Alan to speak to her?
Because Alan is careless
Because the girls are crazy for him
Because he’s joking
Q: What does Alan remind John to do?
Laugh
Smile
Make a joke
This dialogue is a reading comprehension activity. In this activity, we have many quizzes to test our understanding. This dialogue is interesting to read and make us know the development about the role in it. In this dialogue, we can improve our language through understanding. We an also improve our vocabulary when we recognize the words through reading.
Sample 2;
Missing Word Cloze Quiz – UK
Each question has only one correct answer. When you are finished click on the “Next Question” button. There are 11 questions to this quiz. Try to use only 1 minute per question. At the end of the quiz, you will receive quiz feedback.
Q: Great Britain, the _____ industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading _____ in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its _____ the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the earth’s _____. The first half of the 20th century saw the UK’s strength seriously _____ in two World Wars. The second half _____ the dismantling of the Empire and the UK rebuilding _____ into a modern and prosperous European nation. The UK currently is weighing the _____ of its integration with continental Europe. A member of the EU, it chose to remain _____ of the EMU for the time _____ Constitutional reform is also a significant issue in the UK. Regional
assemblies with _____ degrees of power opened in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland in 1999.
1. (a) minor (b) single
(c) dominant (d) principle
2. (a)role (b)actor
(c)plays (d)character
3. (a)best (b)high
(c)zenith (d)top
4. (a) nations (b) surface
(c) countries (d) region
5. (a) losing (b) missing
(c) depleted (d) lost
6. (a) bought (b) looked at
(c)witnessed (d)watched
7. (a) itself (b)themselves
(c)himself (d)herself
8. (a)period (b)degree
(c)heaviness (d)weight
9. (a)outside (b)far
(c)away (d)inside
10.(a)now (b)being
(c)remaining (d)at hand
11.(a)varying (b)optional
(c)various (d)varied
This quiz is a reading comprehension activity. Through this quiz, we can improve our vocabulary because we need to know the meaning of these answers and find the most suitable answer. When we do this practice, we also can learn some information about the content whether it is history or other. This quiz is online quiz, so we can get the answers immediately. Through this quiz we can improve our grammar and sentence structure.
In conclusion, we have found that reading comprehension have many types of activities. They are quizzes like article, story, dialogue, missing word cloze and etc. For example, quizzes like sample 1 and 2 where they used dialogue and missing word cloze. We can improve our language such as grammar, understanding, sentence structure, vocabulary and etc. by using these simple activities. We should practice these activities often or when we are free. We felt so relax when doing these quizzes because it is simple and straightforward.
You can also find more activities in this link http://esl.about.com/od/englishreadingskills/English_Reading_Comprehension_Skills_for_ESL_EFL_Learners.htm
1 comment March 3, 2008 khorheiling
Introduction to Weblog
As i know a blog is similar with a diary where we can express and share our feelings and thought.Therefore,through this blog it enables me to relates ICT with language learning.
My plan is to write and upload my assignments and decorate the blog interestingly and attractively to attract other people to browse it.I would complete my assignment and upload it in the space given.
I would also put some of my pictures so that other people can get to know me more.Futhermore, I would post some interesting videos or jokes and anything that are related to language learning.
About decoration,I would use different themes for different post and maybe design a brand new themes myself.With these new themes and pictures that I add, I hope this blog can attract more people to browse and comment about it.More over, I will put some interesting and lovely music to entertain the people who browse my blog so that they feel more relaxed and enjoyed.
I hope everyone is enjoyable browsing my blog and I could continue blogging even though I finish this semester courses.
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