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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Let's do the Phonetic~~~Bombastic
Here are some video to teach us to sound the english sound in a correct way....
Let's do the Mime
In this task, we were asked to do a mime on a situation that we have choose. This task helps us to understand better the way of transferring of idea through non-verbal communication. Non-verbal communication does not involve the use of language as it only uses body language and etc.
Non-verbal communication.....
In this task, we will use our body to express our idea and we already recorded it. Here is the video:
We
use every part of our body to express the idea. For example through our action,
mimic and face expression. For me communication is not only is the type of
speaking words or creating sound, communication also can be others like body
expression, picture, drawing, action and others. That is why I believe that
sometime people also can misunderstood even though they are not saying any
single words at all.
For
our own mime video, what we are trying to say here is there is a misunderstood
between two guys. One of the guys flirt with the other guy's girlfriend.
from that, these two trying to prove who is stronger. Even though we do it in a
creative way where we put some funny element inside it but what we are trying
to say is really happening in our daily life in our community. Some people
fight for just a simple matter. I know maybe some of my classmate or even our
lecturer maybe cannot catch a glimpse of what are the main idea or main moral
value but I still happy and proud for our product.
Wow let's Role Play~~
Role playing is very useful in teaching language skills. It can integrate speaking and listening in one activity. Apart from that role playing activity is very useful in language learning as it can make the learning environment become enjoyable.
In most role-playing exercises, each student takes the role of a person
affected by an issue and studies the impacts of the issues on human life
and/or the effects of human activities on the world around us from the
perspective of that person. More rarely, students take on the roles of
some phenomena, such as part of an ecosystem, to demonstrate the lesson
in an interesting and immediate manner.
Role play can bring benefits as follows:
1. Motivating students
2. Save time in learning language
3. Integrates few language skills in one activity
4. More student participation
5.Connect student with real life situation
For this role playing task, we were asked to do a role play and create a conversation which can show the uses of form and function in our everyday life.
Here is our conversation:
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)
I hope we can do better next time.....
In learning, we must take it slowly to understand it better...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Class 003: Morphology
In this lesson, we were taught about Morphology. Basically, we already learn about Morphology during our pra-PISMP but of course not for the same subject. For me there is no differences between Morphology for Bahasa Melayu and Morphology for Bahasa Inggeris, both are related under linguistic studies.
What exactly is Morphology? What it related to? And What is it's function?
Morphology on linguistics aspect mean the identification, analysis and description of the structure of a given language's morphemes and other linguistic units, such as words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or implied context (words in a lexicon are the subject matter of lexicology). Morphological typology represents a method for classifying languages according to the ways by which morphemes are used in a language —from the analytic that use only isolated morphemes, through the agglutinative ("stuck-together") and fusional languages that use bound morphemes (affixes), up to the polysynthetic, which compress lots of separate morphemes into single words... based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphology_%28linguistics%29.
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| morphology |
Morphemes: free and bound
In linguistics, a morpheme is the smallest semantically meaningful unit in a language. The field of study dedicated to morphemes is called morphology. A morpheme is not identical to a word, and the principal difference between the two is that a morpheme may or may not stand alone, whereas a word, by definition, is a freestanding unit of meaning. Every word comprises one or more morphemes.
Every morpheme can be classified as either free or bound. These
categories are mutually exclusive, and as such, a given morpheme will
belong to exactly one of them.
- Free morphemes can function independently as words (e.g. town, dog) and can appear with other lexemes (e.g. town hall, doghouse).
- Bound morphemes appear only as parts of words, always in conjunction with a root and sometimes with other bound morphemes. For example, un- appears only accompanied by other morphemes to form a word. Most bound morphemes in English are affixes, particularly prefixes and suffixes. Bound morphemes that are not affixes are called cranberry morphemes, their nomenclature derived from the bound, non-affix function of cran- in the word cranberry.
Derivational morpheme and Inflectional morpheme
Bound morphemes can be further classified as derivational or inflectional.
- Derivational morphemes, when combined with a root, change either the semantic meaning or part of speech of the affected word. For example, in the word happiness, the addition of the bound morpheme -ness to the root happy changes the word from an adjective (happy) to a noun (happiness). In the word unkind, un- functions as a derivational morpheme, for it inverts the meaning of the word formed by the root kind.
- Inflectional morphemes modify a verb's tense or a noun's number without affecting the word's meaning or class. Examples of applying inflectional morphemes to words are adding -s to the root dog to form dogs and adding -ed to wait to form waited.
Allomorphs
Allomorphs are variants of a morpheme that differ in pronunciation but are semantically identical. For example, in English, the plural marker -(e)s of regular nouns can be pronounced /-z/, /-s/, or /-ɨz/, depending on the final sound of the noun's singular form.
Word structure and Word formation processes
(http://www.putlearningfirst.com/language/05words/05words.html)
The way in which
a word is constructed, the elements of which it is made, is an important
building block in our understanding of our language. Although it is often
easy to refer to vocabulary, which is a word and its meaning, it is also
important to consider the construction of a word, its morphemes, affixes
and inflexions.
Syntax
The
green sports car is
an example of a deconstructed sentence.
The word "disappeared" from that sentence is deconstructed here.
The word "disappeared" from that sentence is deconstructed here.
Lexis
Lexis
is linguistics terminology for words - their choice and appropriateness
in a text.
Comment
on the choice of lexis in the following extracts from speeches by George
W Bush:
“No
you’re not going to see me stay put... I am not going to forsake
my responsibilities. You may not see me put as much- I mean, un-put as
much” —11/8/91
“They
misunderestimated me.” — Nov. 2000
“We
cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold
our allies hostile.’’
“It
was just inebriating what Midland was all about then.” — reflecting
in 1994 about growing up in Midland, Texas
“Well,
I think if you say you’re going to do something and don’t do
it, that’s trustworthiness.” — in a CNN online chat,
Aug. 2000
“Ann
and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must
be open.” — at the swearing-in ceremony for Secretary of
Agriculture Ann Veneman, March 2, 2001
How
to create new words
The Macmillan English Dictionary
features Words of the Year and gives examples of typical ways
to create new words:
Prefixing: deshopping,
"to buy something intending to use it once, then return
it for a refund"
Suffixing: Whovian,
"a fan of the British sci-fi series Doctor Who"
Changing the part of
speech - eg making a noun or an adjective into a verb:
supersize "to provide an outsize version"
Compounding:
gripesite "a web-site that makes consumers aware
of deficient goods or services"
Borrowing from another
language: wiki "a website where users
can collectively add or modify text" [from Hawaiian for
"quick"]
Acronyms: ICE
"In Case of Emergency contact number stored in the address
book of a mobile pohone"
Truncation:
fanfic "new stories featuring characters and settings
from a movie, book or TV show, written by fans, not the original
author"
Portamanteau
(combining the start of one word with the end of another): spim
[spam + im] "unwanted adverts sent via instytant messaging"
Metaphor: zombie
"a PC infected by a virus that makes it send out
spam without the user's knowledge"
Metonym: 9/11,
7/7 "terrorist bombing"
Onomatopoeia
and sound symbolism: sneezle words that sound
like or remind one of the thing they describe"
Monday, February 6, 2012
Class 002: Introduction on Phonology
On this lesson I have learned about phonology. In this chapter were teaches about part of speech organ, how to pronounce Engish sound correctly guided by the phonology table.
Now I have understood three important parts in this topic which are phonetics, phonetic script and phonemes. Phonetics is the study of sounds made by humans when they talk while the phonemes are the smallest unit of sound in a language which carries distinctive meaning.
I have learned that to produce a sound there are 15 part of speech organs involved. They all interconnected with each other. From the speech organs, we can produce 3 sounds which are initiation, phonation and articulation.
If one of the speech organ does not functioning well, we cannot produce a sound. For example, if our mouth does not functioning well, we cannot say the sound b, p and etc. We can refer to these following diagram. All those sound can be divided into vowel, consonant and dipthong.
For our task, we were asked to do a minimal pair of tongue twister to be presented in front of the class.
Our group had chosen two tongue twister as follows:
Tongue twister 1:
Tongue twister 2:
For me, individually this minimal tongue twister activity is an enjoyable activity for me. Apart from learning the correct pronunciation of a sound, we also can learn it through an enjoyable activity which is good in learning process.
The other groups also present their own interesting tongue twister.
Now I have understood three important parts in this topic which are phonetics, phonetic script and phonemes. Phonetics is the study of sounds made by humans when they talk while the phonemes are the smallest unit of sound in a language which carries distinctive meaning.
I have learned that to produce a sound there are 15 part of speech organs involved. They all interconnected with each other. From the speech organs, we can produce 3 sounds which are initiation, phonation and articulation.
Speech production
|
Description
|
Initiation
|
· The
production of any speech sound requires the creation of an air stream
in vocal tract. Te air stream is initiated by the lungs
|
Phonation
|
· As the airstream passes through the larynx, it is modified by the vocal cords, through the introduction of voice.
· When
the vocal cords are brought together, airs passing out of the lungs
cause them to vibrate and voice is produced. If the vocal cords are
pulled back, they cannot vibrate. These sounds are called voiceless.
|
Articulation
|
· As
the air stream passes through the vocal tract, it may be modified by
the movement of the active articulators obstructing its passage through
the vocal tract to varying degrees.
· The
obstruction of the air stream may occur at any point in the point in
the vocal tract and is the result of the active articulators moving
towards a passive articulator
|
If one of the speech organ does not functioning well, we cannot produce a sound. For example, if our mouth does not functioning well, we cannot say the sound b, p and etc. We can refer to these following diagram. All those sound can be divided into vowel, consonant and dipthong.
For our task, we were asked to do a minimal pair of tongue twister to be presented in front of the class.
WHAT IS TONGUE TWISTER
- Combinations of alliteration (repetition of a sound)
- A phrase design-made very easy to slip accidentally.
- Spoonerism- words or phrases in which letters or syllables get swapped
— Tease my ears (Ease my tears)
— A lack of pies (A pack of lies)
Our group had chosen two tongue twister as follows:
Tongue twister 1:
If you can't can any candy can,
Tongue twister 2:
For me, individually this minimal tongue twister activity is an enjoyable activity for me. Apart from learning the correct pronunciation of a sound, we also can learn it through an enjoyable activity which is good in learning process.
The other groups also present their own interesting tongue twister.
Class 001: Language and Communication
On the first lesson we were teaches about Language and Communication. What is language? What is communication?
Language
"Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. . . . We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse; we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard."
(Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger, 1987)
Communication
The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.
Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence.
Association; company.
Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection.
That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.
Participation in the Lord's supper.
A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you.
Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/words/co/communication146089.html#ixzz1aF9UufW6
Communication is the activity of conveying information. Communication has been derived from the Latin word "communis", meaning to share. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. The communication process is complete once the receiver has understood the message of the sender. Feedback is critical to effective communication between parties.
As a conclusion, language is very important among us because with language we can communicate with each other. Communication can be either verbal or non-verbal communication.
Non-Verbal communication is a communication where there are the process of sending and receiving information without using word or wordless. Non-verbal can be a writing, body language, symbols and etc. People sometimes use non-verbal communication without they knowing it. Non-verbal sometime can be useful in our daily life.
Verbal communication as we all know is a communication where information is transferred by the means of using language verbally or in another word, speaking. humans speaks everyday to transfer information from one to another.
Language and culture
From what that I have learned throughout the Madam Ira's Lesson I can say that language and culture were both related to each other. Every culture in this world have their own language which become one of their identity.
Language can be constrained by Culture and also can be affected by it. In Malaysia, English Language was affected by the multiculturalism in Malaysia. All these multicultural blend their language with English to create a new form of English Language. For example Manglish ( Malaysian English ) or Bahasa Rojak.
Language
"Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. . . . We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse; we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard."
(Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger, 1987)
Communication
The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.
Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence.
Association; company.
Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection.
That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.
Participation in the Lord's supper.
A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you.
Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/words/co/communication146089.html#ixzz1aF9UufW6
Communication is the activity of conveying information. Communication has been derived from the Latin word "communis", meaning to share. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. The communication process is complete once the receiver has understood the message of the sender. Feedback is critical to effective communication between parties.
As a conclusion, language is very important among us because with language we can communicate with each other. Communication can be either verbal or non-verbal communication.
Non-Verbal communication is a communication where there are the process of sending and receiving information without using word or wordless. Non-verbal can be a writing, body language, symbols and etc. People sometimes use non-verbal communication without they knowing it. Non-verbal sometime can be useful in our daily life.
Verbal communication as we all know is a communication where information is transferred by the means of using language verbally or in another word, speaking. humans speaks everyday to transfer information from one to another.
Language and culture
From what that I have learned throughout the Madam Ira's Lesson I can say that language and culture were both related to each other. Every culture in this world have their own language which become one of their identity.
Language can be constrained by Culture and also can be affected by it. In Malaysia, English Language was affected by the multiculturalism in Malaysia. All these multicultural blend their language with English to create a new form of English Language. For example Manglish ( Malaysian English ) or Bahasa Rojak.
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