Learning  Log 7

    16 August 2016

To day , I learned about  many Thai false friends words. 

It is very important when  I learn the true meaning of each word. 

Then I do exercise about  Thai false friends that Thai people used in many way. After that I presented Applying Innovative Spirit to Multimedia Foreign Language Teaching  by Zhuo Zhu from China. 

           Group 1  presented about  Abstract and Introduction

           Group 2  presented about  Multimedia  Teaching  and  the  Innovative  of  Education Ideas

           Group 3  presented about  Exerting the advantages of  Multimedia Teaching and Exploring New Patterns of  Language  Teaching

           Group 4  Problems and Solutions  Related to Multimedia Teaching

This article  make me know new knowledge and can should the Multimedia for teaching in the future.

     Learning Log 6 

     9  August 2016 

This week , I learned about how to collect the data into my corpus and the method to English language for teaching methodology  such as Terminologies and collocation ,local grammar , style and content knowledge.I learnt about how diffidence between English corpus and Thai corpus that make me know the all of the words the native speaker used, and tell me where to find all of the examples of that word. Concordances can help me look for words in different contexts, and suggest other words that may be related to the word I have learned.Finally , I learned about false friends word in corpus and translation.

    Learning Log 5

    2  August 2016

This week , I learned about built my corpus linguistics. I can download free program antconc  from  http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software.html. Then, I learned information and process for built my corpus from my teacher. Finally, I found information from many website and into notepad and I can check information with antconc.

Encouraging Learner Independence and teacher ask me  7 importance question in this article is 

  1.What is the purpose of this project?
     
     This project aimed at motivating students to take advantage of authentic environment outside the classroom in order to practice language skill and communicate with others.

  2.How was the data collected?

      

     Data were collected from learn.

  3.What were the results of pre-project questionnaire?

  

   No students had a blog prior to the class,and only two learner had any knowledge of blogs.  The learners responded that they wanted t communicate, make friend, develop writing skills, and learn about classmates. 

  4.What were the results of post-project Questionnaire?

    The learners spent 30 minutes/week working on the project.Three learner spent between 10-15 minutes,and two spent more than one hour blogging each week.

  5.What are the advantages of blog?

• The students enjoyed using blogs in the classroom.Eight learners agree that they enjoyed interacting.Seven learners cited that they thought their writing skill and improved from participating in the project.Five learners responded that the project assiste them in learning and using  new vocabulary.Two learners practice in technology. Two learners thinking in English. One learner practice in grammar skill and  last learner practice typing.     

  6.What are the disadvantages of blog?

• 1. picture software was too difficult to understand and use
• 2.The assignment was too time - consuming and or should have been done in class
• 3. The website was only in English and it was difficult to understand 
• 4. Free- writing is too difficult 
• 5. Teacher should give fewer topics and allow more free writing 
• 6. Teacher should assign more assignments to be done on the blog 
• 7. There should be a listening option where students can talk and share music.     

  7.What are the suggestions to improve the project?

• Blogging is a writing activity and therefore it is not  surprising that learners perceivved that the project helped their writing however is that every learner responded that the reason they took the course was to improve their speaking and comunication. 
  

Learning Log 4

25  July  2016

            

                 To day,I learned about Corpus Linguistics by Teacher Kriangkrai Vathanalaoha from Language and Academic Service Centre, Srinakharinwirot University. He taught me about collect word in my corpus and teaching methods for my student in future.

what is corpus?

               Corpus is a large collection of texts. It is a body of written or spoken material upon which a linguistic analysis is based. The plural form of corpus is corpora. Some popular corpora are British National Corpus(BNC),COBUILD/Birmingham 

Corpus, IBM/Lancaster Spoken English Corpus. Monolingual corpora represent only one language while bilingual corpora represent two languages. European Corpus Initiative (ECI) corpus is multilingual having 98 million words in Turkish, Japenese, Russian, Chinese, and other languages. The corpus may be composed of written language, spoken language or both. Spoken corpus is usually in the form of audio recordings. A corpus may be open or closed. An open corpus is one which does not claim to contain all data from a specific area while a closed corpus does claim to contain all or nearly all data from a particular field. Historical corpora, for example, are closed as there can be no further input to an area.

WHAT IS THE USE OF CORPUS?

               A corpus provides grammarians, lexicographers, and other interested parties with better discriptions of a language. Computer-procesable corpora allow linguists to adopt the principle of total accountability, retrieving all the occurrences of a particular word or structure for inspection or randomly selected samples. Corpus analysis provide lexical information,morphosyntactic information, semantic information and pragmatic information. Linguistic information is provided by concordance and frequency counts.

WHAT IS CONCORDANCE?

                Concordances are listings of the occurrences of a particular feature or combination of fearures in a corpus. Each occurrence found (or hit) is displayed with a certain amount of context, the text preceding and following it. The most commonly used concordance type is KWIC whichs stands for Key Word In Context. It shows one hit per line of screen or print-out with principal search feature (or focus) highlighted in the centre. Concordance is used to determine the syntax in which a form is embedded. Concordances can be generated with Corpus Presenter and with Corpus Presenter Flash, programs allow one to retrieve the contexts in which a word occurs.

FREQUENCY COUNTS

Frequency Counts the number of hits. Frequency counts require finding all the occurences of a particular feature in the corpus. So it is implicit in concordancing. Software is used for this purpose. Frequency counts can be explained statistically.

BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS

                British National Corpus (BNC) consists of a sample collection representing the universe of contemporary British English. BNC is a balanced corpus in the sense that it attempts to capture the full range of varieties of language use. It is also a mixed corpus containing both written and spoken ones. The spoken texts are the transcriptions of narurally occuring speech. It is estimated that BNC corpus has 100 million words. Ninety percent of the BNC is made up of written texts.

APPLICATIONS OF CORPUS

                  Corpora are used in the development of NLP tools. Applications include spell-checking, grammar-checking, speech recognition, text-to-speech and speech-to-text synthesis, automatic abstraction and indexing, information retrieval and machine translation. Corpora also used for creation of new dictionaries and grammars for learners.

From>> http://language.worldofcomputing.net/linguistics/introduction/what-is-corpus.html

Learning Log 3

22  July 2016

         This week, I  learned about  linguistics and language

teaching seminar by Budsaba Kanoksilapatham, 

Ph. D. Professor English Department, Faculty of Arts,Silpakorn University at Nakhon Pathom,Thailand.I am excited because I met first her. I like accent her very much. She is smart and joke girl.I took many knowledge about teaching methods,pedagogy and pronunciation.She taught me about different sound between British English and American English.In addition, my friends and me are happy so much. Thank you !!

Learning Log 1

       Today is 6 July 2016. I learned about how to make blog and change templates. I learned about the acronyms that are...
       
         ESOL >> English for Speakers of  Other language.
         TESOL >>Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.
         PDF >> Portable Document Format (Adobe Acrobat)
         ESL >> English as a second languages.
         ELL >> English as a Second languages.
         EFL >> English as a Foreign languages.
         ELT >> English language Teaching.

   After that I learned about the role of teacher in using technology...

        >Organizer
        >Instructional
        >Material resource
        >Instructional guide
        >Facilitator

   In class they discussed  about Asynchronous and Synchronous.

       Asynchronous                              Synchronous
      >Email                                           >Text chat
      >Message Boards                        >Audio Telephony
      >wikis                                             >MUDs,MOOs,WOOs
      >Blogs                                           >Video/teleconferencing

       Asynchronous  Tools

       Asynchronous tools enable communication and collaboration over period of time through a "different time - different place" mode.

      Synchronous  Tools
     
    Synchronous  Tools enable real-time communication and collaboration in a "same time - different place" mode.

Learning Log 2

Today is 12 July 2016. I learned about how to add a widget to my blog. I learned to add clock,calendar,counter,and video about tense and grammar in my blog for the audience take benefits about the grammar. After that my teacher taught me about how to link my friends from my blog. Finally I add my work, I learned saving my work and sharing them to my blog.