ONLINE TEST

MY EXPERIENCE

In my last tutorial class with Datin Norizan Abd Razak, I need to do online test. When I'm doing the online test, I get a lot of experience. For your information, for the first time I'm doing test using online. I does not have any experience before. The online test that I need to do can improve my information about information technology (IT) that I have a little bit slow about it. The online test also can improve my knowledge on to use computer for taking a test. When I' m doing the test, I can find that many information that I never know before. I can learn many things about this topic. I hope that I can doing any online test when I have free time. I'm not fully satisfied with my marks that I get in the online test. I only get 18/30. But, I can get it better if I do it properly.

COMMENDS/ SUGGEESTION

I'm glad to learn for this subject because I can improve my knowledge about information and communication technology (ICT). I give 8/10 for rating to this course. I think that this subject is not so difficult to take by the students. This subject is suitable for every students in the university because if can introduce a lot of information and communication technology (ICT) that every students must know it.

Online Test

Online Quiz Results :: Kemahiran Asas ICT
Your Score : 18/30
Online Quiz Results Summary
Your #Attempts
: 1
Total Class #Attempts
: 422
Your Quiz Score
: 18/30


Your Average Score/#Attempt

: 18


Class Average

:

Your Highest Score Ever
: 18

Overall Highest Score

:

Note: This may not be your final marks. Due to some of the subjective and semi-objective questions (short essay and fill in the blank).

Online Language Proficiency Assessment

ONLINE LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENT-page 299 (OLT book)

Summary

The rate of innovations in information technology (IT) has hastened the rise and spread of the English language as an international language for global communication. The profiling of the UKM academicians language proficiency can be conducted for the purpose of placement of English training modules is very valuable indeed. Many limitations with present web-based system especially in the test design and reporting of the scores has been found. Furthermore, it is necessary to be reminded at this junture that the role of English language, at best, is to complement and supplement but never to substitude for or compete with the sociocultural role that have been well imbedded and well enterenched in the national language, Bahasa Malaysia.

COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE TESTING : IS IT PROFITABLE ?

Summary

Computers using has infiltrated many areas of education, including the fields of the language instruction and testing. Computers-assisted testing (CAT) includes any use of the computer that aids in the testing process. We can see that there some advantages about Computerized Adaptive Language Testing (CALT) such sa computer-assisted testing reduces test administrations cost and greatly diminishes the concern for the test security and compromise. However, there also some disadvantages and limitations like the expense of providing a full-scale CAT program, limited screen size and since computers judge responses on a right-wrong basis, computer-assisted testing uses objectively scored item types almost exclusively.Computer-assisted testing (CAT) also have some possible problems.

My experience

I feel quite happy when I learned about this topic. It can show me the important of English language in our studies. Besides, I can learned more about English language and doing practices in the test that had given in the topic. It can improve my English language especially in grammar and writing.

The applications of ICT in language learning

MY EXPERIENCE ON HOW TO FIND JOURNAL

It is quite difficult for me to find journal using an internet because before this, i does not have any experience about this. At first when leturer want us to find the journal in the internet, i think it is difficult thing that I have to do. When I try to find the journal at cyber@ptsl I can't find any information about the journal that I should find it. The next day when I ty it again, I successfully find that journal. I can see that there are a lot of journals that I can find using EBSCOhost, Emerald, Proquest,Lisa Net and others. I can see that there are a lot of informations that I can find using an internet. So, I did not have to refer to any books when I need to find any journals. It can make my work easily and sav my time. I'm so happy and glad to learn about this course because it can make me more knowledgeable in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

SUMMARY ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Emerald

The unprecedented advances in interactivity and multimedia capabilities together with a myriad of emerging technologies have enabled the creation of virtual learning environments that could be utilized to boost the development of English language skills among Malaysian primary and secondary school students.

EBSCOhose

The program prepares students to succeed anywhere in the IT students gain realistic, hands-on training in Computer Architecture, web development, communications, and software development. Interdisciplinary team projects reinforce technical competence employability skills. The program prepares students to pursue internationally recognized IT- industry certifications.


ProQuest

According to Templeton et al. (2002), management information systems (MIS) can be used to aid and enhance the three OL modes of Argyris and Schon (1978), SLL, DLL, and deuteron-learning. Baets (1998) has proposed case-based reasoning systems, expert systems, group decision support systems (GDSS), cognitive mapping, and artificial neural networks to support various aspects of OL. In a study of executive support systems (ESS) and learning. Vandenbosh and Higgins (1995) found a connection between ESS use and mental models to accommodates new information. Hines and Goul (1998) report their effort in designing, developing, and validating a knowledge-based organizational learning support system that facilities OL by supporting the sharing of opinions, assumptions, and environmental interpretations between units of an organization

Blogging And Trainee Teachers' Professional Development

BLOGGING AND TRAINEE TEACHERS' PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Writing of blogs is a reasonably new phenomenon. Even teacher trainers, teachers and trainee teachers are coming to understand the phenomenon of blogging. This development gives more cause for considering blogging as part of our trainee teacher's course work and professional development. Studies indicate that teacher trainers enjoy blogging and it was found to be useful by their instructors. They observed that their trainee teacher found blogging easy and recommended it for future use.

My opinion about Blogs and Blogging.

As we know blog is a ' web page that serves as a publicaly accessible personal journal for and individual. Writing blog is a better way for me to express my feeling about many things. It helps me in writing skills because when I usually writes in blogs, it can improve my English Language either in reading or writing. As I know, blogs and blogging are the purpose of study. This is age where I will build my professional reputation word by word. It was amazed to create my own blog. It need our creativity on how to create our own blog.

There are some advantages and disadvantages about blogs.

Advantages.

Writing blogs can give many benefit for us. Blogging is to be useful in our learning process. It can help us to more understand what we are learning abou. Besides, it can gives us opportunity on how to share our ideas with another person. Writing our own blog can give us a chance to communicate with our lecturer without worry that other person will know. It give us the opportunity to say things that we would not have ask questions that would not have asked or sometimes we feel uncomfortable to talk about something personals in face to face dicussions. Blogging also gave us opportunity to express to our opinions, share ideas and help us to develop our confidence.

Disadvantages

Most people don't have very much to say that interesting or unable to write down our ideas in a compelling and clear manner. I have often found that the people who have much time to write here, least to say, and the people who have most to say don't have enough time to write it. Thus, the real expertise within the organization lays hidden, as you get drowned in trivia.

Beyond Concordance Lines: Using Concordance To Investigate Language Development.

On my 9, Language and ICT lecture focused on the topic of concordance program. It was a new experience for us as students when we were first introduced to this topic which is quite new to us. In our second posting of blog, we are given with a task to accomplish. We need to make a summary about "Beyond Concordance Lines : Using Concordance To Investigate Language Development which is in the text book page 70.

From our reading, we conclude that concordance help much in analyzing words. Concordance is very useful in language teaching and learning. However, there are still weakness in this program because it is not that easy to analyze huge amount of data available. This chapter talks about the relevance of corpus data in investigating language development without being to analyze concordance lines.

Based on the research in this article which taken from EMAS Corpus collection in 2002. Concordance and analyzing indicate same form of development of language production vocabulary range and sophistication. We can also analyzed corpus data to inform language educators of language development. All in all, concordance lines are very useful in analyzing words.

From the text, we can analyze the word such as "the,a, language, and and are usually used to described noun and adjective.

a useful resource : noun
a large majority : adjective

the present day : adjective
the use and analysis : verb
the Malaysian learners : noun

language produce : verb
language proficiency : adjective
language educators : noun

and Microconcord : noun
and large unavailable : adjective
and analysis : verb

Assignment

The differences and similarities among SMS, chat, and e-mail.

Differences

1. Language

• E-mail : Usually the messages in the e-mail are too long than others. It contains some important information. The language of e-mails are more polite than others.
• SMS : Usually the message in the SMS are too short. It's contains some important information or urgent matter.
• Chat : The messages in chat also short. It contain unimportant information.

2. Subject

• E-mail : In e-mail, the subject usually use by the sender in writing. For example ; hello, hai and others.
• SMS : There are no subject in SMS. The senders just straight to the point or thing that they want to talk about. It shows that the information that the sender want to talk are important.
• Chat : There are also no subject in chat. There are unimportant thing that can be talk about in chat.

3. Lenght

• E-mail : In e-mail, the body of e-mails are too long. It's contain some unimportant messages.
• Chat: The body of chat is too short. It's contain unimportant thing.
• SMS : The body of SMS is also short. The sender just straight to the point or thing that they want to said.. The information in the SMS are liked some important thing.

Similarities

1. Salutations

• In e-mail, chat, and SMS the users usually used salutations. The salutations that usually being used are ; hello, hai and others.

2. Short Forms

• In e-mail,chat, and SMS the users use short forms in writing.The short forms usually used because it's can make them write as fast as they can. For example :'mlm' for 'malam', 'bttr' for better.

3.New Spelling

• In e-mail, chat, and SMS, new spelling usually used in writing. New spelling can make the senders used because it can make them write fast. For example ; 'bz' for 'busy'.