語言學導論 Entries

  Today, my groupmates and I held a review activity with my fellow classmates about the Malaysian words they learned last week. We started our lesson by reviewing those vocabularies first, including vocabularies for food, hobbies and places. By listening to them pronouncing those words, I can see that all of them were hard-working and attentive students. I truly appreciated that. After the quick review, I showed them a few pictures representing those vocabularies and asked them to point out that food, place or activity by saying its Malaysian name. Gladly, despite having a little bit difficulties recognizing the food, they all did a very good job. Through linking the vocabularies which they have learned to pictures, my groupmates and I hope that this method can help our classmates memorize the words easier. After that, we prepared an interesting game for them. In the game, one student from each group needed to look at the vobulary and draw it on the whiteboard. Their groupmat...

  After learning Malaysian for almost a whole semester, it was my turn to teach my classmates the things, which I have learned, today. I was in charge of leading the Kahoot game and teaching the dialogic part. The Kahoot game was about Malaysian culture. It served as an intro to the teaching. There were questions regarding Malaysian food, Malaysian national flag, etc. All of my classmates were participating in the game enthusiastically. Three of the classmates answered many questions correctly and made into the top three. They were given a bag of snacks as presents. For the dialogic part, there were five dialogues in total for me to teach. The first one was " halo, saya_______。Selamat menemui anda/awak" meaning "hello, I am… . Nice to meet you,". The second one was about the preference of Malaysian food including teaching the Malaysian name of the food. The third one was about asking someone whether he or she has certain talent. The fourth one is about asking for d...

  Last week, my professor invited a girl working at Funday to come to our class and have a sharing. She has not worked in that company for a really long period of time but she has already got a lot of experience to share with us. She talked about her working experience like her interaction with the learners. All of the experience were fun and interesting. By knowing her experience, many questions regarding online teaching have been answered. She used a video of her teaching as a demonstration of the real situation happened during online teaching. I admire how the teacher remained calm and was quick when they have to check the answers of the students. Meanwhile, I can start to understand the necessity of having online teaching. Most of the students are adults. They do not usually have that much time and patience to learn a new language by their own. By having online learning methods, these students are re-offered the opportunity to learn again in their ages. This helps prove t...