http://llt.msu.edu/vol11num1/ramirez/default.html
In the article, the author mentioned that how the Internet-based technology could improve children’s listening and the ability of language comprehension. Listening comprehension ability plays a vital role in language learning. According to the study, it is proficient and useful for children to learn a foreign language if the website was designed well organized. That would increase the efficiency of children’s learning.
Listening is originally the basic aspect of learning foreign language. It is not merely listening, when the learner is listening something, they must concentrate on the sounds for these are not like text record that can offer the transcripts or record when listening. So the learners must do thinking and organize the information that just came into their mind.
When the training skills combined with the development of Internet, which became welfare for learners. The learners could easily get the materials they want and would be tested soon after they finished the listening. The questions would evaluate how much they can understand the content.
In primary stage of learning, the texts would tend to be easier tales. Even the children have not learned that much vocabulary; the topics would attract them to keep listening, so that the learners would absorb lots of new concepts unconsciously. Thanks to the promotion of Internet, materials could be available anywhere and anytime, that broke the limitation of learning.
However there is still something imperfectly on Internet-based learning. The contexts might not suit every learner. The speed of reading the contexts and the technology problems are such difficulties the learners would meet.
2009年1月2日 星期五
2008年12月31日 星期三
http://llt.msu.edu/vol6num3/brandl/default.html
In Klaus Brandl’s article, he mentioned that the popularity of using Internet in recent decade. Internet is not just for student to idling around, but is a good resource for both teachers and students to learn well and conveniently. As the promotion of Internet, the WWW world is just like a treasury of knowledge. The class could even be held on the Internet in any kinds of way. Like in Second Life, it’s also a miracle of the development of Internet. The students could be the players and had the meeting with teacher online. The Internet now could provide many techniques for learners to learn online, including voice and text, even the visual aspect.
Due to the development of Internet, that enables teachers to have alternatives on their lectures. The author divided the ways into three parts. It is a approach from teacher to student-centered process. First is “teacher-determined lesson”. Namely, the teacher would select the materials for students to learn and lecture by the teacher himself/herself. The students just accept what teachers teach them. In my opinion, most students would be passive if they get used to accept new knowledge.
The second process is “teacher facilitated lesson”. That is the teachers assign a certain topics and select some of the materials for students to read and listen.
In this way, students would try to realize the texts themselves that would enforce them to think instead of just accepting by others. That would increase the interactions between the teachers and the students for they both got some ideas to share with each other.
The third approach is “students-determined lesson”. For instance, the final project of online English learning is kind of this approach. The students decided their own topics of the project. And collect the materials according to their themes. The teacher now just provides the guidance for the searching of materials on the Internet. This would give students much more freedom to choose what they are really interested in.
Before the promotion of internet, the way tends to be “teacher-determined lesson” because of the laggard access of information. The approach is just like the process of Internet development.
In Klaus Brandl’s article, he mentioned that the popularity of using Internet in recent decade. Internet is not just for student to idling around, but is a good resource for both teachers and students to learn well and conveniently. As the promotion of Internet, the WWW world is just like a treasury of knowledge. The class could even be held on the Internet in any kinds of way. Like in Second Life, it’s also a miracle of the development of Internet. The students could be the players and had the meeting with teacher online. The Internet now could provide many techniques for learners to learn online, including voice and text, even the visual aspect.
Due to the development of Internet, that enables teachers to have alternatives on their lectures. The author divided the ways into three parts. It is a approach from teacher to student-centered process. First is “teacher-determined lesson”. Namely, the teacher would select the materials for students to learn and lecture by the teacher himself/herself. The students just accept what teachers teach them. In my opinion, most students would be passive if they get used to accept new knowledge.
The second process is “teacher facilitated lesson”. That is the teachers assign a certain topics and select some of the materials for students to read and listen.
In this way, students would try to realize the texts themselves that would enforce them to think instead of just accepting by others. That would increase the interactions between the teachers and the students for they both got some ideas to share with each other.
The third approach is “students-determined lesson”. For instance, the final project of online English learning is kind of this approach. The students decided their own topics of the project. And collect the materials according to their themes. The teacher now just provides the guidance for the searching of materials on the Internet. This would give students much more freedom to choose what they are really interested in.
Before the promotion of internet, the way tends to be “teacher-determined lesson” because of the laggard access of information. The approach is just like the process of Internet development.
Online text-based facility
http://llt.msu.edu/vol7num2/kotter/default.html
When playing a role in Second Life, I met a lot of people from the countries around the world. The common language we use to communicate is English. Some are native speakers of English but some are not. When we were in the conversation, I found that I tended to use those sentences “Do you mean…?” or “What do you mean by…?” These are kinds of negotiate of meaning. When there was something I don’t understand I would keep asking until I figure it out.
English is not the language we use in our daily life, thus it would generate some misunderstands during the conversations, both for native and non-native speakers. Text chat through the Internet is a good way for learner to improve the language and do the peer interaction when chatting with another. In these situations, the learners would work hard to figure out the real meanings so that he/she could avoid the misunderstandings due to the use of language.
However, a thing always gets two sides. When the learners are chatting online in the text chat room, the number of speakers is a big problem. People could not afford to talk to too many speakers at the same time. Indeed the effects would decrease when the numbers are over than someone could bear. According to the research, two to five is the average.
Despites text chat room, E-mail message is one of the text-based facilities. It is convenient to make the content more complete and the system would take the record for the learners. However there comes a big problem that I always get is that people would not make sure whether the receiver would get the mail or not.
Online text-based facilities now become a new good way for language learners to get resources online, because they would contact with many other learners, so that they would start to think what the correct answers is. Finding out the mistakes is find of learning itself.
When playing a role in Second Life, I met a lot of people from the countries around the world. The common language we use to communicate is English. Some are native speakers of English but some are not. When we were in the conversation, I found that I tended to use those sentences “Do you mean…?” or “What do you mean by…?” These are kinds of negotiate of meaning. When there was something I don’t understand I would keep asking until I figure it out.
English is not the language we use in our daily life, thus it would generate some misunderstands during the conversations, both for native and non-native speakers. Text chat through the Internet is a good way for learner to improve the language and do the peer interaction when chatting with another. In these situations, the learners would work hard to figure out the real meanings so that he/she could avoid the misunderstandings due to the use of language.
However, a thing always gets two sides. When the learners are chatting online in the text chat room, the number of speakers is a big problem. People could not afford to talk to too many speakers at the same time. Indeed the effects would decrease when the numbers are over than someone could bear. According to the research, two to five is the average.
Despites text chat room, E-mail message is one of the text-based facilities. It is convenient to make the content more complete and the system would take the record for the learners. However there comes a big problem that I always get is that people would not make sure whether the receiver would get the mail or not.
Online text-based facilities now become a new good way for language learners to get resources online, because they would contact with many other learners, so that they would start to think what the correct answers is. Finding out the mistakes is find of learning itself.
Voice chat generate more repair moves
Jespon, K. (2005). Conservations--and negotiated interaction--in text and voice chat rooms. http://llt.msu.edu/vol9num3/jepson/
When we discover there is something wrong when chatting with other people, what would people mostly do? In Kevin Jepson’s experiment, the members were divided to take two kinds of chat room: text chat and voice chat. And the results found that voice chat would generate more repair moves.
Both text chat room and voice chat room are the online tools that enable people to chat with strangers. In other words, the participants would not know the background of those people in the chat room. Here is the question that because of the reasons that the participants are not familiar to each other, the participants would reconstruct the inner code between their conversations. It is quite different when we talk to someone that is totally a stranger to us than talking to a friend. The conversations between friends would not generate more repair moves than the conversations between strangers. There may be some mistakes but we could still understand the meanings the speakers want to convey because the interlocutors and the speakers got the consensus of the code in a certain degree. But as to the strangers, the speakers would spend more time to confirm the meanings.
In voice chat, the speakers would hear the sounds of each other, which would increase the number of repair moves. The voice chat would not take the record during the process, unlike the text chat, the words would show on the screen and the speakers could go back to check the sentences again. And there may be some problems of pronunciation.
The key point is that the speakers are faceless so that people would not dare to make sure what the exactly meaning is. And due to the aspect of technique, the equipment would play a key role that affect the result of repair moves.
When we discover there is something wrong when chatting with other people, what would people mostly do? In Kevin Jepson’s experiment, the members were divided to take two kinds of chat room: text chat and voice chat. And the results found that voice chat would generate more repair moves.
Both text chat room and voice chat room are the online tools that enable people to chat with strangers. In other words, the participants would not know the background of those people in the chat room. Here is the question that because of the reasons that the participants are not familiar to each other, the participants would reconstruct the inner code between their conversations. It is quite different when we talk to someone that is totally a stranger to us than talking to a friend. The conversations between friends would not generate more repair moves than the conversations between strangers. There may be some mistakes but we could still understand the meanings the speakers want to convey because the interlocutors and the speakers got the consensus of the code in a certain degree. But as to the strangers, the speakers would spend more time to confirm the meanings.
In voice chat, the speakers would hear the sounds of each other, which would increase the number of repair moves. The voice chat would not take the record during the process, unlike the text chat, the words would show on the screen and the speakers could go back to check the sentences again. And there may be some problems of pronunciation.
The key point is that the speakers are faceless so that people would not dare to make sure what the exactly meaning is. And due to the aspect of technique, the equipment would play a key role that affect the result of repair moves.
2008年9月30日 星期二
Blog style v.s 1.5 generation
Bloch, J.(2007). Abdullah's blogging: A generation 1.5 student enters the blogsphere.
http://llt.msu.edu/vol12num2/emerging.pdf
In the article, there are some main view points that facou on the issues that the learning of 1.5 generation, the problems of plagirism, the relations of bloggings and academic writings.Now the population of bolgging has bought some adventages and weakness to students.
Nowadays, the accesses to the platforms of bolgs are free to gain, here people can share their feelings and ideas by putting their works on the sphere. Also it also creates the bloggers’ own writing space from the readers. There’s another potential problem that emerged from the trend. That’s the damages of plagiarism.
In the author’s discussion, he divided the forms of blogs into two type, that are issues-oriented blogs(discuss social and political issues) and identity blogs (discuss person issues). In the issues of 1.5 generation student, they discover that students of these specific generation get different backgrounds from those international students. They might be influenced by their own learning experiences. When they are writing, they may focus most on the problems of grammar but that somehow gives limits to the writings.
As to the writings about personal issues, the focus should be changed to another aspects from the point of grammar. Many blogs are containing that kind of literacy that the readers can see more oral and personal style that would make readers feel comfortable and relaxed during the reading.
http://llt.msu.edu/vol12num2/emerging.pdf
In the article, there are some main view points that facou on the issues that the learning of 1.5 generation, the problems of plagirism, the relations of bloggings and academic writings.Now the population of bolgging has bought some adventages and weakness to students.
Nowadays, the accesses to the platforms of bolgs are free to gain, here people can share their feelings and ideas by putting their works on the sphere. Also it also creates the bloggers’ own writing space from the readers. There’s another potential problem that emerged from the trend. That’s the damages of plagiarism.
In the author’s discussion, he divided the forms of blogs into two type, that are issues-oriented blogs(discuss social and political issues) and identity blogs (discuss person issues). In the issues of 1.5 generation student, they discover that students of these specific generation get different backgrounds from those international students. They might be influenced by their own learning experiences. When they are writing, they may focus most on the problems of grammar but that somehow gives limits to the writings.
As to the writings about personal issues, the focus should be changed to another aspects from the point of grammar. Many blogs are containing that kind of literacy that the readers can see more oral and personal style that would make readers feel comfortable and relaxed during the reading.
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