Sociolinguistics Paper Guide 5 April 2009
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Here you go, guys, the guide for the paper.
Remember, the deadline is Monday, 27 April 2009 at noon (12 PM) either in my box or in my email.
Good luck!
IC Students: here is the file 9 October 2008
Posted by neny in For my students.Tags: reading, reporting, teaching material
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To IC students, the file about Reporting is here. Enjoy!
To other readers, I’m alive and feeling good. The reason why I went hiatus for so long is because I’m (as usual) busy with projects and other engagements. And yes, I got your emails, messages in facebook and chat messengers. Thanks! Forgive me for being not very diligent in replying.
New Way for Finding References 20 July 2008
Posted by neny in ESL/EFL Info, For my students, Internet/Blogging/Computer.Tags: finding references, google book search
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For someone who lives in Indonesia, it’s quite difficult to find adequate references for research. Most of the times, my students and I find it very difficult to get latest journal articles. Searching in google usually brings many hits of results. The problem is, not all of them can be downloaded freely, unless your university subscribed to the journals or you pay. Getting them from university libraries is also possible, but due to the price of the books, the library simply didn’t buy them.
Today, I came across one of Google’s search engine: Google Book Search. What so wonderful about this facility is not only the search facility, but also the ability of it to display some pages of the book! Some books are available for previewing some pages only, and some even provide full book preview. It is just awesome for me! With Microsoft Office OneNote, I can always do a screen clipping of the pages for later reading and it will be a tremendous help for my research.
Round applause for Google, please!
Hilarious Collaborative Classwork for Writing 20 October 2006
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The other day, I was so confused looking for a method to engage my students in a writing activity in my IC class. Writing is usually painstaking both for students and teachers. It’s painful for students because it requires more efforts and energy to come up with ideas, check the spelling, think about the content, etc. in such a limited time like 20-30 minute slot of an IC class meeting. It’s also painful for teachers because once the essays are submitted, we have to struggle to correct and edit them. My IC class has at least 27 students and on top of other tasks that I have, correcting papers is not a task I’m excited about.
So, that morning as usual I came across Fenny Kristianti, one of my colleagues, and check the answers of the that day’s IC textbook exercise. We usually do this before the class, just to make sure that we give the same answers to students. We also discuss some techniques and methodology for teaching that day. When I talked to her about the problem of writing classwork that day, she came up with a brilliant idea, which she had applied it the week before.
For the purpose of naming, I will call the method as ’round-robin’ writing. Students form a group of 3-4 people and each group is given a piece of paper and a topic to write. The group then discusses the first sentence of the essay/story for 3-5 minutes and write the first sentence. When the time is up, the group transfers their paper to the next group. And the process is repeated again. It goes until the paper returns to the original group. The class then reads together the story/essay. Together, they correct the grammar/spelling and evaluate the content.
So I used the method for two of my IC sessions: news and tips writing. And the results are wonderful. The students came up with very funny fake news and some tips “essential “for the life of a college student in our campus. The most important thing from the perspective of language learning is the students are very motivated in doing the writing task because the success of the essay depends on their collaborative efforts and they particularly like how the essay/paper turned out to be very hillarious. They also learn to evaluate their own piece of essay in terms of mechanics and content. Please read their work and give your comments!
