REFLECTION WEEK 9 (TREE DIAGRAM)

TREE DIAGRAM

Another task in our coursework is to design a worksheet with two sentences for analysis using tree diagrams and its suggested answers. For this task, we need to give the worksheet to one of our friends and make sure that they completed the worksheets. And then, I need to correct up those answers with my own answer scheme.

In order to do that, I had already search for further information on tree diagrams and then I started to create my sentences which are two sentences. Then, I need to create my own answers best on the sentences.

I found that it is hard to prepare a worksheet because this is the first time I had to prepare it. Moreover, I need to make sure that the worksheet is able to be answered by my friend. That will prove that my worksheet has its reliability. Besides, it is not easy to analyze a sentence into a tree diagram without further understanding on the sentences. If you do not know what types of phrases does each phrases stated, you might going to have a wrong answer for the analysis.

However, through this task, I feel more confident in developing my own creativity and of course in my understanding towards sentence structures. It is not that easy to create your own worksheets, but with determination and further analysis, I am sure all of us can do it. Thank you.

The following are the example of my worksheet:

My coverpage

My Example

My empty question

REFLECTION WEEK 8 (TREE DIAGRAM, PRESENTATION)

TREE DIAGRAM

This week, we had learned on tree diagram in syntax. For me, I'm quite familiar with tree diagram because I had learnt it during my foundation in Bahasa Melayu. For me, tree diagram is not difficult because the structure that we have between English and Bahasa Melayu is quite the same. So I think that it is not that difficult to do and understand on the topic.

For our task, we were required to construct a question on tree diagram to be done by our classmates. I had chosen two sentences which I found it is equivalent with the level of my classmates. The following is one of the examples that we have on tree diagram.

PRESENTATION ON HOW MALAYSIAN CULTURE AFFECTS ENGLISH LANGUAGE

One of the tasks in our coursework is discuss how Malaysian Culture affects English Language. There are six major points given for us to elaborate on. However, we discussed with Madam Ira to divide each points to one group for elaboration. So, withdraw had been done and our group got the first point which is multicultural society – major ethnic groups and dialect groups.

We did some further research on how Malaysian culture affects English language especially on the multiracial society in Malaysia. Besides, we also met with Madam Ira to get some information and rough ideas on the topic. Further research enables us to find more information and we had divided it to three main parts in the presentation which are definition of multicultural, the history and mastery of English level in Malaysia during and after British colonial era and major common mistake by Malaysian when using English language.

Then, we started to analyse the points that we get and transfer it into PowerPoint. And then, we handed in the draft for checking. We get positive feedback; however, we did not submit the supporting details, made Madam to criticize us and reminded us to hand in the supporting details for our final assignment. We then edited back all the mistakes that we did in the draft and add in some new information and videos for our presentation.

The day for presentation had come. At first, I feel so nervous about the presentation. I need to present on the introduction of our presentation and a brief history on how English acquisition among Malaysian during the era of British colonial in Peninsular Malaysia. It is quite hard for me to explain the point in fluent English. However, I'm proud of myself that I can speak out anything related to the point in English.

What I get from the presentation is that multicultural society in Malaysia really affect in English language. The Malaysian English or Manglish is the example of how the other language such as Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Cina and others mixed up with English language and it becomes widely used throughout Malaysian. If we really notice that only the English speakers will speak and pronounce the correct pronunciation for standard British English. I am not in that group yet, but I will try to reach it because I will be teaching English soon or maybe in future.

I feel so happy because our group did our best to impress Madam Ira and the others about our findings in that area. I also hope that the findings can be used for our revision for our examination later. That's all from me, thank you.

TASK 1: HOW MALAYSIAN CULTURE AFFECTS ENGLISH LANGUAGE

One of the tasks in our coursework is discuss how Malaysian Culture affects English Language. There are six major points given for us to elaborate on. However, we discussed with Madam Ira to divide each points to one group for elaboration. So, withdraw had been done and our group got the first point which is multicultural society – major ethnic groups and dialect groups.

We did some further research on how Malaysian culture affects English language especially on the multiracial society in Malaysia. Besides, we also met with Madam Ira to get some information and rough ideas on the topic. Further research enables us to find more information and we had divided it to three main parts in the presentation which are definition of multicultural, the history and mastery of English level in Malaysia during and after British colonial era and major common mistake by Malaysian when using English language.

Then, we started to analyse the points that we get and transfer it into PowerPoint. And then, we handed in the draft for checking. We get positive feedback; however, we did not submit the supporting details, made Madam to criticize us and reminded us to hand in the supporting details for our final assignment. We then edited back all the mistakes that we did in the draft and add in some new information and videos for our presentation.

The day for presentation had come. At first, I feel so nervous about the presentation. I need to present on the introduction of our presentation and a brief history on how English acquisition among Malaysian during the era of British colonial in Peninsular Malaysia. It is quite hard for me to explain the point in fluent English. However, I'm proud of myself that I can speak out anything related to the point in English.

What I get from the presentation is that multicultural society in Malaysia really affect in English language. The Malaysian English or Manglish is the example of how the other language such as Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Cina and others mixed up with English language and it becomes widely used throughout Malaysian. If we really notice that only the English speakers will speak and pronounce the correct pronunciation for standard British English. I am not in that group yet, but I will try to reach it because I will be teaching English soon or maybe in future.

I feel so happy because our group did our best to impress Madam Ira and the others about our findings in that area. I also hope that the findings can be used for our revision for our examination later. That's all from me, thank you.

REFLECTION WEEK 7 (ALLOMORPH, WORD STRUCTURE, LANGUAGE GAMES)

ALLOMORPHS, WORD STRUCTURE, WORD FORMATION

This week, we learned about Allomorphs, Word Structure and Word Formation. I learned that allomorph is one of two or more complementary morphs which manifest a morpheme in its different phonological or morphological environments. For example, the plural morpheme in English, usually written as '-s', have at least three allomorphs:

• [-s] as in 'hats'

• [-z] as in 'dogs'

• [«z] as in 'boxes'

Besides, in allomorph, there is also zero allomorph. Zero allomorph is is a special kind of allomorph which has the form of a null morpheme. An example of zero allomorph in English is the phrase two fish-Ø which can also be two fish-es. In addition, the forms of many auxiliary verbs such as do may have null allomorphs, especially in children's language.

Then, we also learned about word structure. Word structure is breaking down a word to understand its meaning, to break it down is to separate the prefix, the base/root word, and the suffix or whatever. For example, the word ‘unlocks’. The prefix is un and the base/root word is lock. Un means not, so the word means not lock. It’s like taking one part of the word, such as the prefix, and then finding out what the prefix means. Then taking the base word and finding out what that means. It goes the same for suffix.

Word formation in linguistic is creating a new word. Word formation is sometimes contrasted with semantic change, which is a change in a single word's meaning. There are 8 ways of word formation which are:

• Affixation

• Compounding

• Reduplication

• Clipping

• Acronymy

• Blending

• Onomatopoeia

• Antonomasia

Affixation is the addition of one or more affixes to a root, as in the word derivation itself. For example, “unbeatable”. Compounding forms a word out of two or more root morphemes. The words are called compounds or compound words. For example, staffroom.

Reduplication are consists of compounding from two rhyming words. Examples, lovey-dovey. Clipping is a type of abbreviation of a word in which one part is 'clipped' off the rest, and the remaining word now means essentially the same thing as what the whole word means or meant. For example, spectacles into specs. Acronyms are formed by taking the initial letters of a phrase and making a word out of it. Most of it is in IT areas.

LANGUAGE GAMES: WORD SCRAMBLE

The fifth task in our assignment is to design a language game on word formation, for example compound words, stems and affixes. This is also one of our tutorials. Last week, we had discussed on our games and was been approved by Madam Ira.

Then, in our tutorial, we need to conduct our language game that we prepared last week in front of the classroom. The name of our game is "Word Scramble".

The following are the terms and regulation on the games:

• Seven letters will be shown on the screen.

• Using the provided seven letters, create as many words as you can, at least 3 letters, and at most 7 letters within a time limit of 2 minutes.

• One group will be made up of four people.

• Each of the letters may be only used once per word. For example, if there are 2 “A”s among the seven letters, the word must use either one or two “A”s.

• After 2 minutes are up, the full list of words will be shown.

• In order to advance to the next round, the group must achieve the goal of number of words need to be created.

• Any group who fails to achieve the number of words required will be eliminated from the game.

• After 2 minutes are up, the full list of words will be shown.

• In order to advance to the next round, the group must achieve the goal of number of words need to be created.

• Any group who fails to achieve the number of words required will be eliminated from the game.

Every group has good games that can be used for classroom activities especially for class activities. Everyone seemed to enjoy all the games and as usual, there will be a winner for the best games. For this time, Madam Ira said, every group had prepared good games and the winner of all the activities wins the price.

I think that, this week lecture and games are the most attractive week for me because I had learned a lot of things such as word formation and word structure and we can build up a lot of activities so that pupils will attract to learn English only through word formation

Besides, from language games, we not just only for the purpose of fun, but we can learn directly from the games. The games will help us in develop our thinking skills as well as our communication skills which might I think as an important skills nowadays. Without communication, I believe that we are going to be in trouble as we could not get involve in someone conversation and communication is also one of the important skills in job interview. That is why I think that language games will motivate pupils to get involved in the classroom. I think that’s all from me. Good bye and thank you.

TASK 2(a): LANGUAGE GAME

The fifth task in our assignment is to design a language game on word formation, for example compound words, stems and affixes. This is also one of our tutorials. Last week, we had discussed on our games and was been approved by Madam Ira.

Then, in our tutorial, we need to conduct our language game that we prepared last week in front of the classroom. The name of our game is "Word Scramble".

The following are the terms and regulation on the games:

• Seven letters will be shown on the screen.

• Using the provided seven letters, create as many words as you can, at least 3 letters, and at most 7 letters within a time limit of 2 minutes.

• One group will be made up of four people.

• Each of the letters may be only used once per word. For example, if there are 2 “A”s among the seven letters, the word must use either one or two “A”s.

• After 2 minutes are up, the full list of words will be shown.

• In order to advance to the next round, the group must achieve the goal of number of words need to be created.

• Any group who fails to achieve the number of words required will be eliminated from the game.

• After 2 minutes are up, the full list of words will be shown.

• In order to advance to the next round, the group must achieve the goal of number of words need to be created.

• Any group who fails to achieve the number of words required will be eliminated from the game.

Every group has good games that can be used for classroom activities especially for class activities. Everyone seemed to enjoy all the games and as usual, there will be a winner for the best games. For this time, Madam Ira said, every group had prepared good games and the winner of all the activities wins the price.

I think that, this week lecture and games are the most attractive week for me because I had learned a lot of things such as word formation and word structure and we can build up a lot of activities so that pupils will attract to learn English only through word formation

Besides, from language games, we not just only for the purpose of fun, but we can learn directly from the games. The games will help us in develop our thinking skills as well as our communication skills which might I think as an important skills nowadays. Without communication, I believe that we are going to be in trouble as we could not get involve in someone conversation and communication is also one of the important skills in job interview. That is why I think that language games will motivate pupils to get involved in the classroom. I think that’s all from me. Good bye and thank you.

TASK 2(a): TONGUE TWISTERS

The third task in the assignment is tongue twisters. We need to find two tongue twisters and presents it in class. The aim of the task is that to promote and helps us as pronunciation drills. This drill will help us to pronounce the word correctly without mistakes. So, each group already choose their own tongue twisters and checked among each other so that there will be no groups with the same tongue twisters.

Our tongue twisters are:

If you can't can any candy can,

how many candy cans can a candy canner can,

if he can candy cans?

And

A big black bug bit a big black dog on his big black nose!

And

Did Dick Pickens prick his pinkie pickling cheap cling peaches in an inch of Pinch or framing his famed French finch photos?

I found out that these tongue twisters are very hard, especially when we say it in a faster way. Sometimes you can say it wrongly, and it is terrible if you say it wrongly. Besides, we need to say it in a correct intonation so others can understand on the meaning of the tongue twisters. I, myself still need more practice to speak good English. So, I need to practice more on tongue twisters so that I will be able to master good pronunciation in English.

Tongue twisters really help me especially to speak in the correct pronunciation. I admit that before this I would always not interested in tongue twisters because I found it is hard to pronounce it correctly and meaningfully. But now, I would love to read more on tongue twisters so that I can improve my pronunciation in English.

Anyway, we also learned about pronunciation again after the tongue twisters. I think this week was an enjoyable week for us.

TASK 2(a): WORKSHEET ON TREE DIAGRAM

Another task in our coursework is to design a worksheet with two sentences for analysis using tree diagrams and its suggested answers. For this task, we need to give the worksheet to one of our friends and make sure that they completed the worksheets. And then, I need to correct up those answers with my own answer scheme.

In order to do that, I had already search for further information on tree diagrams and then I started to create my sentences which are two sentences. Then, I need to create my own answers best on the sentences.

I found that it is hard to prepare a worksheet because this is the first time I had to prepare it. Moreover, I need to make sure that the worksheet is able to be answered by my friend. That will prove that my worksheet has its reliability. Besides, it is not easy to analyze a sentence into a tree diagram without further understanding on the sentences. If you do not know what types of phrases does each phrases stated, you might going to have a wrong answer for the analysis.

However, through this task, I feel more confident in developing my own creativity and of course in my understanding towards sentence structures. It is not that easy to create your own worksheets, but with determination and further analysis, I am sure all of us can do it. Thank you.

The following are the example of my worksheet:

My coverpage

My Example

My empty question

TASK 2(a): A SHORT MIME (THE DUEL)

The second task in the coursework is to design a short mime which represents the non-verbal communication. The mime must either taped or directly in front of the classroom. However, everyone decided to tape the mime into video which will be added up with music and animation.

So, each group had discussed on their topic. We had chosen a topic which we think it is funny where the situation involved two men that were fighting against one another for two women. Each everyone of us given a character where I am as a judge in the battle, Tiong and Shahrol are the one who battle for the women and Khairul as the cameraman as well as a massager. You should watch the video rather than I summarize it here. The film making took about 3 hours to finish the recording parts and it took about 3 hours to complete it in a video.

So, in the second period of the week, we watched the mime prepared by each group. All the mime was funny and attractive. I enjoyed watching all the mime. It is so amazing and I can see that the entire group trying their best in order produced a good mime.

The following is the video of our short mime.

I think everyone should watch this video because of the idea of this mime. In this mime, the people are always trying to compete on something so that they will be number one. But, there will always be one winner and the other will be losing. It motivates me on keep on trying to be a better person in future as well accepted any results in my life because life is just like a wheel, sometimes you are on the top and somehow you at the bottom side.

I love to do some short video. This type of activity helps us, especially me, so that I can be able to cooperate more with my group members. And this will strengthen the bonds between us as group members.

REFLECTION WEEK 6 (LANGUAGE GAMES)

LANGUAGE GAMES DISCUSSION

This week, we do not have any lecture, since Madam Ira had an important business to do. So we were given a task on language games about word formation. This game is about some scramble letters given, and the player needs to make how many words from the letters.

We had already hand in the games for checking and correction. So far, Madam Ira already approved our games with the term and regulation that we had already stated. We are still checking for any errors that we did in the language games.

I cannot wait to play the language games on word formations because I think that this type of games is really important for us to develop on our vocabulary.

TASK 2(a): DIALOGUE/ROLE-PLAY (LANGUAGE FORM AND FUNCTION)

This is the first task of our project for Task 2 in the coursework for ELE3103 English For Language Teachers. So, my group (Tiong, Mohd Shahrol, Khairul and I) decided to choose a topic on beauty pageant. We discussed the function of each sentences so that we know the reason of each sentences and how it is effect the conversation.

We need to know and understand about language form and functions. This really helps us in understand on what the person trying to show us. Through form and function, we will able to identify the reason on why the speakers wanted to told us. If there is no form and function of language nowadays, I think that, what we are talking about is no sense at all.

The following is our script.

Prepared by : Kelvin Andreas Anak Apaw Khairul Azlan Bin Mohd Faizul Mohd Shahrol Bin Matrimau Tiong Kung Ling Class : PPRMT5 Two young men are having their conversation in XXX Café. Both of them are talking about Miss Universe 2011 pageant. They are arguing about the winner of the pageant. Shah : (Approaching the café) Hey Kel, it has been a while. How are you? Kel : Wow! Look who is here? Glad you are still alive… Kay : Any drinks, gentlemen? [To ask] Kel : I would like a mango juice. Shah : Hurm… there are too many choices. I do not know which one to choose. Kel : Want me to choose for you? Shah : Sure. Kel : Just give him a glass of sky juice. [To suggest] Kay : One mango juice and one sky juice, table 2567! Tiong : One mango juice and one sky juice, coming right up! Shah : So have you watched Miss Universe 2011? Kel : Oh yes! I think Miss Malaysia, Deborah Henry should get the title for Miss Universe 2011. Her body is perfect! You know what Shah? Through my 22 years existence in this world, the judges were major major super major major biased. [To give opinion] Shah : Are you kidding me? Miss Angola, Leila Lopes deserved her title. Just look at the curves. (whistle~) The elegance, the bikini, the size, the… Kel : Yeah! Yeah! Whatever. As long as my mother is more beautiful than your mother. It is all that matters. Shah : Duh…are you insane? If your mother is more beautiful, then why did my father marry my mother and not yours? [To argue] Kay : Stop it… Here you are, sir. For your information, my parents are more attractive than your parents! Tiong : No, no, no… My parents are more attractive, okay? So do not get jealous. Kel : Hey, what’s up with you two? Do not interfere our conversation! Shah : Yeah, it’s just between me and him. (Points to Kel) Tiong : You want to know something? My mother was the Mrs Sibu for three years in a row! Kel : Humph! Perhaps your mother won because she was the only contestant for those three years! [To tease] Tiong : How dare you! She joined it fair and square! Kel : It’s so lame to promote your mother as the beauty pageant winner for just a small area. My mother is the second runner-up for last year’s Mrs Sarawak! I repeat, Mrs Sarawak pageant! Shah : Oh please. My mother was a candidate for the Mrs Earth last year! Kay : Guys, just stop it, you guys! Tiong : Humph! My mother will join Mrs Universe this year! Don’t get jealous! Kay : I said stop! Shah : My mom too! Kay : Please stop, all of you. Kel : My mother does come from a small town, but she will join the brawl too! Kay : Can you guys please stop quarrelling?! You’re disturbing the customers here! [To stop an argument] Shah : Oh, OK. Kay : We should be happy because we still have our mothers on our side! You know what? I’m glad that I’m here! Kel : Hey, you sound familiar. Kay : Do I? Tiong : Yes, the Filipino “Engrish” beauty pageant. Shah : Major major! Oh please, improve your English! [To advise] Kay : Okay okay, that’s enough. Enjoy your drinks, guys. Don’t start another debate on it. Tiong : Aaa… Excuse me? Waiter, I don’t have the drinks. How should I enjoy it? Kay : GO BACK TO WORK, YOU FOOL! I’m only talking to the customers! (Tiong runs back to workstation, and the café is as peaceful as before) - THE END -

After the presentation, we need to choose three members in our class to identify the function of the dialogue that we used. Well, I've learned that in our daily talk, we actually already use many types of functions which we never realized. We used form and function almost the time and we should know that form and function will help us expressing our points or opinions.

Nick's group was announced of the best role play by Madam Ira. This makes me more motivated in future so that we can do our best.