For the last assessment post, I was given a questionnaire on blog.
BLOG QUESTIONNAIRE-SKBP 1023
Age: 20 years old
Tutorial Group:
Lecturer: Associate Prof. Datin Dr. Norizan Bt Abdul Razak
1. Do you enjoy blogging?
Yes. it is because by blogging it gives a chance for me to write something. Any possible topic can be written and the best part you can share with others
2.Based on your experience what is the benefit of blogging?
My command of language has increase especially from vocabulary aspect.
3.Do you need more assistance to set up your blog ?
No.
4.Do you have any memorable/favorite topic in your blog?
No
5.List 5 advantages of blogging for you
Advantages for me is it helps in improving my language, fills my time. it make me confident whether in writing aspect or in myself, it improves my knowledge in blog and it connects me with other bloggers.
6.List 5 disadvantages of blogging.
Disadvantages of blogging is it shrinks the chance of people to socialise with other person face to face. Blogger can not maintain their personal in the blog and in the real world because sometimes people cheat about themselves in the cyber world. It make introvert people stays like that. Peolple will lose their confidence to confront with others. It advocates forgery in terms of identity.
7.Will you continue blogging after the course?
Yes. It is because blogging is an exciting thing to do.
8.Do you think that blogging improve your writing?
Yes
9.Do you think that we should continue with blogging activity for the next batch of students?
Yes
10.Will you recommend your friend to blog
Yes
11.Can you teach a friend to set up his or her blog
Yes
Goodbye for now and I will definitely continue blogging in this blog and I do hope there are people that will read all of my posts. BYe!!!
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
~FiFtH PoStInG~
I"m back for the fifth posting and the next task is to find 2 articles about concordance and its applications in language learning and provide the links for readers to get to the articles online. Then I need to post the summary of these two articles and give my own own personal view on the benefits of concordance to language learning and language teachers.
What is concordance?According to Wikipedia, concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, with their immediate contexts. Because of the time and difficulty and expense involved in creating a concordance in the pre-computer era, only works of special importance, such as the Bible, Qur'an or the works of Shakespeare, had concordances prepared for them. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordance_(publishing)]
First article
TotalRecall: A Bilingual Concordance for Computer Assisted Translation and
Language Learning
This paper describes a Web-based English-Chinese concordance system, Total-Recall, developed to promote translation reuse and encourage authentic and idiomatic use in second language writing. Weexploited and structured existing highquality translations from the bilingual Sinorama Magazine to build the concordance of authentic text and translation. Novel approaches were taken to provide high-precision bilingual alignment on the sentence, phrase and word levels. A browser-based user interface (UI) is also developed for ease of access over the Internet. Users can search for word, phrase or expression in English or Chinese. The Web-based user interface facilitates the recording of the user actions to provide data for further research.
To read the full article please click this link. http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/acl2003/posterdemo/pdf/Wu.pdf
Second Article
Can Google Concordance Language?
By Tdol
In language discussions, results taken from search engines are often quoted as examples to show whether something is used as a form or to compare forms to see which is more common, etc. GoogleBlogoscoped has run 27,000 words from a dictionary through Google for popularity- the full results of the study can be downloaded here. The table below shows the top thirty words from the 2006 and 2003 surveys, together with the top thirty words from the British National Corpus (BNC).
The method used in the Google study does not count multiple occurrences in a single page, so the presence of a copyright message at the foot of a page will count for the same as all the times that the occurs, which accounts for the presence of copyright, contact, site, home, etc. However, the other entries suggest that the contents of the Google databases, and therefore any other reputable search engine, are likely to give a fairly accurate reflection for terms that are not related directly to the language of the layout of a webpage. As a rough and ready tool for checking, it seems that search engines can be used as basic concordancing tools.
http://www.usingenglish.com/profiles/tdol/archives/000302.html
In my opinion, concordance is a good method to ease the process of language learning. As a language learner, one should master the usage of concordance so that it will be applied and one can takes advantage of it.
What is concordance?According to Wikipedia, concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, with their immediate contexts. Because of the time and difficulty and expense involved in creating a concordance in the pre-computer era, only works of special importance, such as the Bible, Qur'an or the works of Shakespeare, had concordances prepared for them. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordance_(publishing)]
First article
TotalRecall: A Bilingual Concordance for Computer Assisted Translation and
Language Learning
This paper describes a Web-based English-Chinese concordance system, Total-Recall, developed to promote translation reuse and encourage authentic and idiomatic use in second language writing. Weexploited and structured existing highquality translations from the bilingual Sinorama Magazine to build the concordance of authentic text and translation. Novel approaches were taken to provide high-precision bilingual alignment on the sentence, phrase and word levels. A browser-based user interface (UI) is also developed for ease of access over the Internet. Users can search for word, phrase or expression in English or Chinese. The Web-based user interface facilitates the recording of the user actions to provide data for further research.
To read the full article please click this link. http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/acl2003/posterdemo/pdf/Wu.pdf
Second Article
Can Google Concordance Language?
By Tdol
In language discussions, results taken from search engines are often quoted as examples to show whether something is used as a form or to compare forms to see which is more common, etc. GoogleBlogoscoped has run 27,000 words from a dictionary through Google for popularity- the full results of the study can be downloaded here. The table below shows the top thirty words from the 2006 and 2003 surveys, together with the top thirty words from the British National Corpus (BNC).
The method used in the Google study does not count multiple occurrences in a single page, so the presence of a copyright message at the foot of a page will count for the same as all the times that the occurs, which accounts for the presence of copyright, contact, site, home, etc. However, the other entries suggest that the contents of the Google databases, and therefore any other reputable search engine, are likely to give a fairly accurate reflection for terms that are not related directly to the language of the layout of a webpage. As a rough and ready tool for checking, it seems that search engines can be used as basic concordancing tools.
http://www.usingenglish.com/profiles/tdol/archives/000302.html
In my opinion, concordance is a good method to ease the process of language learning. As a language learner, one should master the usage of concordance so that it will be applied and one can takes advantage of it.
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