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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Assignment 1

~ Choose 1 of any skills :
1) Reading
2) Listening
3) Writing
4) Speaking
5) Grammar

~ Then, creates lesson plan based on the skill that you have chosen

~ Lesson plan :

.LESSON PLAN

Subject      :    English                                                                          Date     :  10th march 2014
Class          :    Standard 5 ( Primary school )                                      Time    :   8.30am – 10.20am
Level          :    Beginners
Language Skills
Listening and speaking.
Themes
Friendship
Objectives                                        
The objectives of this lesson are:
1.       To improve listening skills in English language among the students.
2.      To familiarize the students with different ways of intonation.
3.      To make the students understand the correct way of pronunciation.

Learning Outcomes
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1.      Discriminate sounds in English language.
2.      Identify grammatical units.

Values
1.      Cooperation.
2.      Politeness.
3.      Respect.
4.      Be kind to others.
5.      Helping each other.
6.      Teamwork.
7.      Friendship and Appreciation.
Prior Knowledge
Students have been exposed to basic sound systems.


Steps
Teaching and Learning Activity
  
Induction
( 5 minutes)

1.      Ice breaking session. ( 1 minute)
2.      Teacher starts the class with the recitation of Al-Fatihah.( 1 minute)
3.      Teacher introduces topic for the first lesson. :
( 3 minutes)
·         Teacher guides the students to open the webpage for the first activity.


Activity 1
( 45 minutes )


1.      Teacher briefly explains the instruction of the activity.  :
 (  6 minutes )
·         Teacher divides class into groups consist of 4 people per group.
·         Teacher mentions to the class that every video will be played TWICE ONLY.
·         Teacher will play the video using the computer, projector, and also the speaker in front of the class.
·         Students will only use their computer for answering questions.
2.      Teacher starts to play the first video.  ( 2 minutes )

3.      Teacher plays it again for the second time. ( 2 minutes )
4.      Students start to answer the questions ( 5 minutes )

5.      Teacher starts to play the second video. ( 3 minutes )

6.      Then the teacher plays it again for the second time. ( 3 minutes )
7.      Students start to answer the question. ( 5 minutes )

8.      Teacher starts to play the third video. ( 4 minutes )

9.      Teacher plays the video again for the second time. ( 4 minutes )
10.  Students start to answer the questions. ( 6 minutes )


11.  Teacher allows students to raise up questions ( 5 minutes )


Activity 2
(25  minutes)

1.      Teacher gives instruction for the second activity (  4 minutes )
·         Teacher asks them to watch and try to find any values which can be found in the movie clips.
·         Students need to write the values in the blank sheet that have been provided earlier.
2.      Teacher plays the movie clips ( 10 minutes)

3.      Teacher discusses with the class. ( 5 minutes )
·         Students point out moral values that they have found and share it to the class.
·         Teacher corrects it or adds some.
4.      Teacher states and writes all the answers given by the student in the board.  ( 5 minutes )


Closure
( 5 minutes)

1.      Teacher randomly asks the students on what they have learnt in today’s lesson. ( 3 minutes )
2.      Teacher recaps the lesson. ( 2 minutes )



Evaluation
Activity 1  and 2 :
1.      The students will be able to pronounce words according to the correct or standard ways of pronunciation.
2.      Students will be able to find and state some moral values from both activities.
3.       The students will be able to work in groups.
4.      The students will be able to develop their soft skill and leadership.

Reflection



Teaching aids:
1.      Computer
2.      Projector
3.      Speaker
4.       A4 Paper
5.      Stationaries
6.      Cd player
7.      Cd-Rom
 (Language sites)
Activity 1:
Activity 2:




Reflection


Questions:

1) Reflect on your experience in the BENL courses that you've taken.

2) Think of your assignments which acquired you to apply the computer to assist in their completion

3) Relate the applications to the 3 stages of CALL and name the key concepts associated to the assignment.

Answer:


Monday, March 31, 2014

Introduction to Pragmatics

Introduction A branch of linguistics concerned with the use of language in social contexts and the ways in which people produce and comprehend meanings through language. The term pragmatics was coined in the 1930s by the philosopher C.W. Morris.

Pragmatics was developed as a sub-field of linguistics in the 1970s. "Pragmatists focus on what is not explicitly stated and on how we interpret utterances in situational contexts. They are concerned not so much with the sense of what is said as with its force, that is, with what is communicated by the manner and style of an utterance." (Geoffrey Finch, Linguistic Terms and Concepts. Palgrave Macmillan, 2000) Pragmatics and Human Language Behavior "What does pragmatics have to offer that cannot be found in good old-fashioned linguistics? What do pragmatic methods give us in the way of greater understanding of how the human mind works, how humans communicate, how they manipulate one another, and in general, how they use language?

 "The general answer is, pragmatics is needed if we want a fuller, deeper, and generally more reasonable account of human language behavior. "A more practical answer would be: outside of pragmatics, no understanding; sometimes, a pragmatic account is the only one that makes sense, as in the following example, borrowed from David Lodge's Paradise News: 'I just met the old Irishman and his son, coming out of the toilet.' 'I wouldn't have thought there was room for the two of them.' 'No silly, I mean I was coming out of the toilet. They were waiting.' (1992:65) How do we know what the first speaker meant?

Linguists usually say that the first sentence is ambiguous, and they excel at producing such sentences as Flying planes can be dangerous or: The missionaries are ready to eat in order to show what is meant by 'ambiguous': a word, phrase, or sentence that can mean either one or the other of two (or even several) things. "For a pragmatician, this is, of course, glorious nonsense. In real life, that is, among real language users, there is no such thing as ambiguity--excepting certain, rather special occasions, on which one tries to deceive one's partner or 'keep a door open.'" (Jacob L. Mey, Pragmatics: An Introduction, 2nd ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2001)