Maizura's Blog

Assignment 2 is coming through~ Who's excited? (Definitely not me, nuh-uh) 😂 Okay, peeps, on this week, we are required to create a free topic podcast which is absolutely not my forte but it sounds fun! Before I spill the link to my podcast, let starts with the introduction of this week's topic - Using Podcast and Digital Storytelling in Language Learning. So, what is podcast? Podcast is: audio/video file broadcast via the internet can be downloaded to a computer or mobile device terms  'podcast' comes from 'iPod' (Apple portable MP3 Player) and 'broadcast' Furthermore, there are two main uses of podcast in Language Teaching. They are: students can listen to any existing podcast students can create their own podcast Now, the best part, as promised,  here  we go! I would like to apology in advance if I am being too loud. Thank you for your time, people!

Okay what's up, gang? OMG! I just realized that we are about to step into Week 4. How time flies... 😥 So, in this post, I will be sharing about CMC which is stands for Computer Mediated Communication. On this week, Madam Azida asked us to choose between two articles and we have to make a short summary on what we have read. Let me just put the links here. Check this out, people! CMC is a term used to communicate between two or more people who can interact with each other through different computer.  However, computer is not used as much and often now.  Around 90's, computers began to spread in  community and came the term Computer Mediated Communication because people started to  use w ebsites, emails, and the internet at the time.  Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) is any form of human communication gained or aided by computer technology.  In addition, communication with computer media (CMC) can also be defined as communication transactions ...

 Ola, people! How are you doing?  In this second week of class, let me introduce you what is CALL all about, which is being used from top-notch universities around the world by the educator or teacher. As defined by Mark Warschauer, Computer Assisted Language Learning or simplified as CALL is divided in three phrases, which are- Behaviouristic CALL, Communicative CALL and Integrative CALL. CALL is an approach to language teaching and learning in which computer technology is used as a tool for presentation, reinforcement, and assessment of material to be learned. The factors that determine the characteristics of any CALL program include: the language taught the language of instruction the language writing system (both roman and non-roman character based) the level of the language to be taught (from absolute beginners to advanced) what is to be taught (grammar, informal conversation and pronunciation)  how it is to be taught Moreover, the p...

Good day, beautiful people! So, this will be my online journal for Internet Technologies for Language Learning subject. Oh wow I am officially a blogger now! 😜 So... before you go further reading my entries, let me share you few things about myself. I will start with my full name. My full name is Nur Maizura binti Zainal and I prefer to be called as Mai. I was born and raised in Kemaman,  nanananana Teranung kiterrrr  on February 5th, 1995.  To be honest, when I first told that I have to create a blog and write at least a blog per week, I am so clueless and doomed as I am very bad(lazy) at writing. But, I will try my very best to commit and think as this is one of the great way to improve my writing skill.  Actually, I did not know anything about blog. Thanks to Madam Azida, today, I get to know what blog is. Based on what I learned from the first class, there are four types of blog. They are: 1) Weblog 2) Tutor Blog 3) Class Blog ...