SIXTH POSTING- BLOG EXPERIENCE

Hello everyone. Welcome to my blogger again. This is my sixth and last posting regarding to this subject. In this posting, I need to explain about my experience on blog from the day I start posting and until this moment. Regarding to blog and based on my experience, I can say that blog is one of the base forms of a website. There are a lot advantages and benefits that I get by doing posting in blogger such as understand the requires of questions, the way to get information’s, improve my reading skills and improves my writing skills. Now I am going to explain briefly about the benefits that I get by posting in blog.

Firstly I want to explain about capability of understanding the require of questions and would say that blog improves my capability of understand the require of questions. Regarding to this subject, almost every week we are give assignments or questions. So that I need to read all the questions given and answer it. Sometimes I get confuse or unable to understand the require of the questions such as do not know the meaning of certain words or really do not know what is the requires of that question and how to answer it. In this type of situations, mostly what I will do is refer to dictionary, ask friends or ask lecturers. When I refer to dictionary, I get to know new words and its meaning. So when I do like that each week I learn many new words and able to remember it. Besides that when I ask or discuss about the questions to my friends or lecturers, I able to exchange many ideas and information’s. Therefore, it has made me to answer all my questions easily and confidently.
Secondly, I would like say that by doing blog I have learn the ways to get or find information’s to answer a question. Mostly if I want to get information regarding a question I will find it through books, internet and ask well-known persons. For this (blog) the way to get, information’s is still the same but I have learned a new way to find information. The way is still using internet but the place and procedures to get it is quite different. Here, what I’m trying to say is regarding my third posting where I have to get the information’s based on findings in Perpustakaan Tun Sri Lanang (PTSL) - electronic journal. My findings are based on few sites such as SCOPUS, EBSHOST and Pro Quest. I should click on the specific field and it will take to those references and click on the given space about the topic. Within few seconds, I able to get the information. Before this I never been heard and get information’s in this way. This is the first time I do it and I really enjoy it. Some more it helps me to get information for other subjects. Thank you for my beloved lecturer Datin.
Thirdly I want to explain about reading skills and would like to say that blog have improved my reading skills. Normally to answer a question we need search information’s from books or internet. After get information’s we have to make sure or confirm the correct information according to given questions. So, in this situation we have to read each information to write the right answer. When I do so, its help me to improve my reading skill. Some more, almost every week I have to do my blog so I need to read a lot of information’s for every week. By this, I get to know how to find the main ideas and points in a short time. Apart from that, I can improve my pronunciation of certain words and the way to skip unnecessary point’s elaboration. So that I no need to waste my time.

Lastly, I would like say that blog improves my writing skill and I want to explain about it. As what I mention before this from the first to third ways will be apply in this last step, which is writing. Almost every week I need to do assignments regarding blog. Therefore, I need to write about something for each week. When I do so, I can learn a lot mistakes that I done when writing. So that I can make correct and try to do a best or good writing. When I do it for every week, it becomes as a practise for me. We cannot deny that practises make us perfect so for sure it plays a role in my writing. Here, I have to say that I have actually improve my vocabulary skills and able to express my ideas and thoughts easily. As I know, people around me will read my posting in blogger. So when I’m doing my each posting I will keep it in my mind and come up with the best as far as I can do it. When I do like that I feel more confident and proud of myself.
Now I’m going to discuss or explain about the contains in a blog. I have to post something to make my blog interesting. So, if I want to edit or add some information in my posting was already published I can always edit it at anytime of the day. Apart from that, I can decorate my blog with variety of background, pictures and colours. I can add music, links and almost whatever I want in my page. However, at first I had difficulties on it. I did not know how to upload song into my blog. After several tries, I managed to get through with it. Blog offers option of enabling a comment field to posts where viewers or readers can actually give their own feedback. This comment-enabling section will not only make the viewer and readers to comment back on my work but at the same time it is giving me a great change to get to know them better on what they prefer in my blog.

I’m really enjoyed doing my blog. It’s very interesting but we have to spend our time to create a better blog. All this is a very good experience for me. Creating blog is really fun so I will ask my friends to create a blog. Blogs are free and the space given is unlimited. I can make as much as posts I want in my blog. It can be thousands or maybe millions, blog will still support it all. Besides that, I can even upload numbers of videos and images that I want. Here, definitely I can say that I will continue using my blog forever by posting interesting information that can be view by people of all ages. If not it’s waste to keep it without any changes. Many people have dreams or interest to create and possess own blog after read this can do it now. Blogs are the simplest to have and easy to create. Within few minutes, you can create it. All you need to do is to sign up to any of the blog providers such as Blogger, Word Press and Type pad. Just follow the 3 simple steps which is first- name the blog, second- choose the template where varieties of templates will be provided by the blog provider and third- start posting.

At last, I would like to say thanks to everyone who helped me in create a successful blog and especially to my respected and beloved Datin. I’m going to miss you. Thank you very much.

FIFTH POSTING : ONLINE TEST

Electronic Malaysian English Competency Test - Reading Test (Set 1)
Score: 23 out of 35 - 66%
Time Taken: 37m 45s


Online Quiz Results :: Kemahiran Asas ICT


Results Summary

Online Quiz Results :: Kemahiran Asas ICT
Your Score : 20/30
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Online Quiz Results Summary
Your #Attempts : 3
Total Class #Attempts : 639
Your Quiz Score : 20/30
Your Highest Score Ever : 41
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).



TAKING ONLINE TEST (PERSONAL EXPERIENCE)

Welcome again to everyone on my fifth posting. This is about my results that I get in online test. After I get to know that, I need to attempt an exam I feel nervous especially online test. Before start doing the test, we were given some instruction regarding that test. The test where done by us called as Electronic Malaysian English Competency Test.
All of us were given forty-five minutes to complete the test. I feel really excited to do it. There are four passages were given in this test and there are thirty-five questions all together. All the questions are regarding the four passages. I have been sitting for online quiz once before this when I’m taking my car license. Therefore, it does not make me feel difficult to understand the procedures of the test. Here I can say clearly that taking online quiz is much better than manual or normal test. Taking test online serves you the infrastructure and facilities of Information and Communication Technology in depth.

Online test is really attractive and easy to revise compare to offline test. Mostly the online test is colourful and it has made the educators or students to give more attention on it. The amount of work and unattractive way of checking answers that were written on the paper - offline test, might not be that interesting for some educators. Apart from that, the results of online test obtained are very quick and it is easy. All you have to do is to submit your answers and within few seconds, you can see the results displayed on the screen. However, the offline test is not like that, it will take time to get our result. Some more it needs human energy to mark the papers. If we want to take offline test we need to travel up and down the street but we can take online test in anywhere around the world. All you need to do is just serve the internet and accessed to the address. By this, we can save time.

There is one important thing we need to do before enter or go into the online test. I can say that online test serves very good security features whereby you can keep your results or anything has to do in the page private and confidential without having anyone to look at it Online test require the users to come up with their passwords before taking the test. The passwords are meant to be key in the provided box by those who are taking the test. Others can’t take or do the test especially those who are not having the password. Besides that, we can get the details of a person who take the test by serve internet. If offline, we have to keep all the persons details and marks in paper.

Apart from that, online test has time frame stated in the screen. So when doing online test the system will set the time and will closed or end the test at the time even though we did not complete it. So that, students or anyone taking this test will stay focus and not get engrossed in their own world as what they did in the offline test. They won’t waste their time and fully will concentrate in test. By this, they may be able to get highest mark in test comparing to offline test. Online test too can develop the technology or computer level among students or others. In conclusion, in my point of view online test is much better than offline.

FOURTH POSTING - CONCORDANCE

Hi everybody. How you all doing? This is my fourth posting on this week and wish to welcome all of you again to my blogger. On this week, my lecture has given the fourth task. Regarding it I need to discuss an article with my partner which is about “Beyond Concordance Lines: Using Concordances to Investigate Language Development” from our OTL book by Arshad Abdul Samad from University Putra Malaysia.


I need to do this assignment with one of my partner and I was done it with Allimalar. The article is about and mainly discuss about the importance of concordance. Besides that it too discuss about the benefits using software’s such as Wordsmith and Microconcord which help us in analyzing language specifically words and grammatical order which is useful for students and teachers. Concordance is software that is used to make a concordance. The listing of certain words in a row means concordance in our opinion. Concordance makes it easier for us because it will only list down the words that we want in an alphabetical order. In addition, the words can be seen clearly without any complications.

According to Schmitt (2002:34), using a corpus in language learning language captures students in a whole new way instead of making them just memorizing rules of English, as what it has been done all this while. Many studies have been done regarding concordance and how it helps but the one that is discussed in detail in this chapter is English of Malaysian School Students (EMAS) corpus, which was investigated by researchers from University Putra Malaysia (UPM), on language development using language production and lexical variety. EMAS corpus was collected in 2002 and it consists of almost half a million words in the form essays written by 800 students from year 5, form 1 and form 4. Topics that were selected were based on the amount of language certain topics could take. This is why narration topics were taken because students were expected to write better based on the things that they were familiar.

Now I’m going to discuss about concordance more deeply. Concordancer is software that is used to make a concordance. In my opinion, concordance is the listing of certain words in a row. Concordance makes it easier for us because it will only list down the words that we want in an alphabetical order and the words can be seen clearly. If we look by the side of language learning, there are numerous articles regarding to the subject of concordance. We can understand concordance and the application of it easily if an article constructed in simple English. But if the article is constructed in complicated English then difficult to understand concordance and the application of it. Concordance is something that is best to be mastered by students especially language students due to the fact that Concordancer can provide many answers regarding the usage of any language. Here I can say that Language play main role in the application of concordance. Serve it to know more : http://www.bhashaindia.com/Patrons/LanguageTech/Textanalysis.aspx

Now I’m going to give a brief explanation regarding content analysis. Regarding to my search content analysis is known as textual analysis. Content analysis is divided into two forms, which is conceptual analysis and relational analysis. Conceptual analysis shows the number of words that is occurred within a text and then gets it recorded. The text should be coded or break down into convenient content categories. Relational analysis builds on conceptual analysis by groping the relationships among concepts in a text. In the process of identifying the words or phrases, the main step that should take is to see which word is analyzed and how the word is used in the particular text. Content analysis focuses on the basic form of certain words. Relationship between words and concepts are looked into profundity, as in how does a word acts in the particular phrase. There are few steps in the content analysis. The first thing that you should be doing is to describe the area that need to be studies, secondly select the media that will be used for the data either relational analysis or conditional analysis. Thirdly, choose the category and then count either the presence or absence of the particular category and after that places them accordingly into one category. Content analysis is very good way to analyze words, phrases or even sentences. There is a link to let you know more about it :

http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/socio/kuechler/341/f95/caho.html