Friday, May 25, 2012

Syllibafication - Bananasplit...

Can syllabification improve pronunciation by analogy of English?

Estuary English (EE) vs RP / C - Never underestimate the power of passion. Eve Sawyer

Singaporeans' reactions to Estuary English

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. Erich Fromm

An Exercise in ear training: Listening to margaret thatcher > received pronunciation.

Margaret Thatcher's pronunciation: An exercise in ear-training

Received Pronunciation - Black Bitter Coffee - after Iftar sips

The nature and significance of English as a global language

Gutenberg n bbc English learning today...

Learner autonomy: a guiding principle in designing a CD-ROM for intonation practice





GUNTHER KALTENBĂ–CK (2001).


ReCALL, Volume 13,
Issue 02, November 2001 pp 179-190

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=89635

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. - Benjamin Franklin

A review of technology choice for teaching language skills and areas in the CALL literature

"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that catch the heart". - Ancient Indian Proverb

Martha C. Pennington, Phonology in English Language Teaching. London and New York: Longman, 1996. Pp. xvii + 282. Pb. £15.99. ISBN 0-582-22571-X.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. - Nelson Mandela

COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHING AND RESEARCHING PRONUNCIATION

Puzzle

The teaching of English pronunciation: The model accents

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Breakfast Coversation - Rishwah

yes! Bribe! bribery!

Rasuah.

I was reading harian metro while having my morning tea and saw an article on N9 JPJ director found not guilty of bribery charge in court.

He was accused of taking favour from a driving school in form of plane ticket worth 298$ and a hotel room accommodation 380$.

What I have in mind, the amount in bribery cases would involved hundreds of thousand ringgit.

Daaahhh...!!!!

So if you call a book supplier who is having a booth at the book festival to book and pay for your a hotel room since you're not selected by your boss to go buy books this year, would it be accepting favour ....

Suddenly, the defining line between what is considered bribe, goodwill and gift becomes very thin indeed!

For example, you are on the board of directors of a company and your know your company is going to start a construction project. You mention about it to your nephew who is in construction business who later put in a bid for it. Then, during lunch time you mention to the officer who is responsible for the bid that your nephew, Mr. X is tending is his bid for the project and remind the officer to look after your nephew, Mr. X ... woah! Are you then misusing your position to gain favour for your nephew?

Sadly, it's how business is done nowadays. It is who you know or to whom you are related, how big is your cable etc.

Refusing to use any 'cable' eventhough being offered the biggest and strongest cable, I refused to use it and my job confirmation with KUSZA never did came through.

I guess, I was just wanted to see how far would 'they' go about it.

Their own son, family members, relatives or someone they know with cable get confirmed on the post swiftly - 3 months, 7 months, 9 months or even a year after started working. - but that was old news - in the past - nothing can be done anymore!

Bribe, accepting favours, and cronyism are just the tip of the iceberg!

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Voki Animation

Here is the outcome of today's classwork!





Animation is one part of multimedia elements!

Another web2.0 learning tool to be integrated into the classroom.

Not just the use technology in the classroom, when e-Learning is concerned, web2.o learning tools are almost a must! :)

Enjoy!

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Citing Online Photographs and images used in our multimedia projects

found this voicethread posted by one of my student in our secret facebook group for the class... I think you might find it useful in writing references for images used in the multimedia project! :)



hope this embed works... other wise, you may use this link :
https://voicethread.com/share/100536/

You have to register an account with voicethread first though. This shouldn't be a problem since all of the students in my class must register to create a voicethread project for the classwork! :)

Happy Exploring!

:) Ummabdrahmaan :)