BENL is a course about language and literature. Typically, people would think English majors only learn about how to write essays, read and listen. So yeah, they are definitely wrong.
Our experiences in this course have taught us a lot of things. Critical thinking is part of the result that we have gained throughout the process of learning. What more when it comes to understanding old complicated poems, functions of language and more. Sounds difficult already? Not yet, not until we have to integrate our learning with Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) techniques. Yup, now you can say, "That sounds intriguing and complicated!"
In the previous post, we have posted about what CALL is, the types of CALL and more. So, we don't think it is necessary for us to elaborate more on that topic.
It is a modern world, we could say that each course that we have taken actually has integrated the learning of language with the help of computers. For instance, one of our courses, Pragmatics, requires a lot of examples taken from surrounding of our daily life. Mr Ridzwan had done a good job in integrating the computer, the internet and teaching aids (power point presentation) to show real examples taken from the internet from all over the world. Sounds cool right?
Error Analysis meanwhile requires us, students, to conduct an interview with international students and present them as creatively as we can to the class. Yes, with the help of the computer, some video editing, power point presentation and more have helped us to get more marks. Thank you, Dr. Nora, you're an awesome lecturer.
It is almost impossible not to use CALL nowadays. Technology makes work easier and life simpler. But we hope it does not make us lazier.
No comments:
Post a Comment