:: 4th Posting :: Online Database :: Lisa Net and EBSCOHOST ::

EBSCHOHOST is one of the online database that Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia had subscribed to helps the student in finding information about the article or information regarding what they want to find oe seek. Rather than spending hours searching through the internet, it's more effective searching the information through the online database as long as they had the internet connection to find it. Searching through this site might be a bit difficult if we does not search through it with specific title, author, journal name, or subject terms. The subject that we want to search through EBSCHOST also need to be precise to avoid getting the wrong information during searching through this database.

Lisa Net (CSA ILLUMINA) is also a online database that helps the user in finding an information regarding what they want to find. In addition, through Lisa Net, the user can find the information through three method; Quick Search, Advanced Search or Search Tools. Finding information through this site a bit tricky if the user do not know how to use it in finding the information. In helping the user in finding information easily, this site provided search tips, technology search area and date range of the information that the user want to find.

For the article summarizing, I had choose the topic that I familiar with; "Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)". From both EBSCHOST and Lisa Net, I found articles that involved the use of CALL in "Intelligent computer assisted language learning as cognitive science: the choice of syntactic frameworks for language tutoring by Matthews C" and "A Software Development Approach for Computer Assisted Language Learning by Steve Cushion". Both this article related to CALL in term of using it for cognitive science and software development.

For summarizing the first article, the article is " A software Development Approach for Computer Assisted Language Learning" by Steve Cushion. This article I found in EBSCHOST online database.

Computer Assisted Language Learning is a field which computers and language play an important part in area of computational linguistics. Argument about highly interdisciplinary nature of the field and influence of different currents of psychology that's involved the history of CALL projects. Error Analysis and Description describe the analysis of regular parsers in CALL context includes grammar and spelling checkers eventhough learnererror is not the same with the native speaker error in language learning. Feedback on history before CALL being design discuss the problem that the learner faced including human interaction, general learning and general problem of language generation. Student Modelling in parser-based CALL explored the problems in the latter of Intelligent Tutoring System for areas other than a second language.

As for the second article, I found it in Lisa Net online database. The title is "Intelligent computer assisted language learning as cognitive science: the choice of syntactic framework for language" by Matthews C. However, the article that I found only shows the outline of the article itself.

Part of a special issue based on the workshop SCIAL'93 (cognitive Science, Computer Science and Language learning), held Oct 93 in Clermont-Ferrand, France, which considered the development of interactive language learning environments. The development of Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) has often tended to proceed in an ad hoc fashion. Questions relating to ICALL Should be asked and answered within a principled framework. Considers which grammar framework might best form the basis of the syntactic component of an ICALL system. Compares 2 frameworks, Definite Clause Grammars and Principles and Parameters Theory, with respect to a number of criteria of adequacy. Although there are various reasons for preferring the latter framework, illustrates the types of questions that ICALL should be raising rather than providing any precise answers.

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About Fourth Posting

Posting 4 : Dear students, this week we are already in week 11. I really hope that all of you are learning a lot of new skills in this course and apply them in completing all the assignments and postings in your blogs. For this week tutorial is not in our usual lab. All students are required to go to Tun Sri Lanang library during your tutorial times and do the following: Go to the Internet lab section of the library at the main entrance. Ask the librarian where is the DOA- Dissertation online and find out what it is and also find out the online databases subsribed by TSL libraries. Then you need to search for EBSCOHost,and Lisa Net. Find 2 articles related to one of the following topics from any online databases subsribed by TSL. CALL Bridging Digital Divide Women and ICT E-Learning Summarize these articles and post them as fourth posting. Happy surfing.

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:: 3rd Posting :: Mamma.com :: google scholar :: eric digest :: yahoo.com ::

Hello....

Mamma.com

Mamma.com is a metasearch engine owned by Copernic Inc. that helps in finding information from directories, and deep content sites. It properly formats the words and helps in finding the things that we want to know with specific information. Moreover, Mamma.com compiles their results in a virtual database, eliminates duplicates, and displays them in a uniform manner according to compatibility of the information that we want to seek.

http://www.mamma.com/info/about.html

Google Scholar

Google Scholar helps in finding information that involved scholary literature. In addition, through this site we can find information like; peer-reviewed papers, thesis, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and also other scholary organizations. Google Scholar features; Search which diverse sources from one convenient place, Find papers, abstracts and citations, Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web and Learn about key papers in any area of research.

http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html

Eric Digest

Eric Digest helps improviding an access towards the ERIC Digests (education articles) produced by the former ERIC Clearinghouse system. This site provided :-

- short reports (1,000 - 1,500 words) on topics of prime current interest in education. There are a large variety of topics covered including teaching, learning, libraries, charter schools, special education, higher education, home schooling, and many more.

- targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community.

- designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic, plus references to items providing more detailed information.

- produced by the former 16 subject-specialized ERIC Clearinghouses, and reviewed by experts and content specialists in the field.

- funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), of the U.S. Department of Education (ED).

- The full-text ERIC Digest database contains over 3000 Digests with the latest updates being added to this site in July 2005.

http://www.ericdigests.org/

Yahoo.com

Yahoo.com helps in providing images, videos site, shopping site, news and research database. Moreover, it also provide site like news, music, movies, map, and business site. This site function as same like google.com in helping finding information but it have it's own site which combine all links to all site that we want to visit besides its search engine.

Differences

The differences between all of the is every search engine has their own way in helping the user in finding what they want. For yahoo.com and and Mamma.om, both helping the user in finding all sort of information from document, pictures to news. As for Google Scholar and Eric Digest, it helping the user in finding specific information in what the user want to find. Google Scholar helps in finding information about literature whereas Eric Digest is a site that goods for education field in finding information about helping teachers to teach in the class.

Similarities

The similarities between all of the search engine are they help the user in finding what they want and helping in an easy way to locate certain information without needing to browse through the internet for hours just to find specific information about something. Google Scholar and Eric Digest have similarities in form of both helping in finding a certain information about literature world and specific information for educational method.

About Third Posting

Posting 3 : Dear students We really hope that your blog is up and running. For the third posting you need to write about the search engine. Write briefly each of these and discuss the differences and similarities. Mamma.com; google scholar; eric digest and yahoo.com. Happy surfing and blogging. Make sure this week you will add in in your blog your picture and also audio/video files.

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:: 2nd Posting :: Blogging can assist language learners to improve and enhance their writing skill ::

In improving our writing skill, we need to improve our writing skill. In assisting language learners, writing skill they would think critically while writing on blogs. Their way of thinking involved in how to create an interesting topic to discuss in their blog, how to make it lively, how to make the readers would be trill in reading more about whats contain in the blog and the most important thing is the writing skill itself.

Eventhough writing seems out of date to certain teenagers, writing bring a lot of advantages in terms of improving the writing skills and grammar building.

Blogging appears to be helping teens become more productive writers. This is a promising finding that has important implications for schools. A survey recently conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project explored the links between the formal writing that teens do for school and the informal, electronic communication they exchange through email and text messaging.

The report also confirms my findings about the ambiguity in computer usage at home and at school. Educators seem perplexed when it comes to assigning blogging assignments because many students do not have computers at home. But computer ownership increases daily as prices go down and the need or want of these machines rises. Teens who use a computer at home for their non-school writing believe computers have a greater impact on the amount of writing they produce than on the overall quality of their writing.

http://suptfelix.blogspot.com/2008/05/teen-writing-skills-improve-with.html

Other blog that I found which discuss Cultivate Your Writing Skills to Improve Your Blog, it enhance in writing skill.

Blogging is about communicating first and foremost, and to get started communicating you only need to get your idea across.

On the other hand, if you want to be remembered, in part you need to be distinctive. You need to better than every other mediocre writer with good ideas. You need to find your own voice. And some of the great writing advice you can get will help you find yourself - cutting out the excess and leaving the worthy.

I think the best way of taking advantage of your blogging schedule to improve your writing skills, is to write your post and then edit it. Writing on it’s own, won’t improve your skills, it will only display them as they are. Improving your writing skills, I think, means improving your editing and rewriting skills. Once the ideas are in place, improving and rewriting your language to better communicate those ideas just takes practice.

http://www.blogthority.com/47/cultivate-your-writing-skills-to-improve-your-blog/

2nd Post

Posting 2: Discuss how blogging can assist language learners to improve and enhance their writing skill. You need to add in articles or list url and links related to blogging and share blogs that you enjoy reading. Articles on blogging is also in spin. Read and understand them. Happy blogging

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:: 1st Posting :: Reading for Information ::

Mental Illness

http://www.nami.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Inform_Yourself/About_Mental_Illness/About_Mental_Illness.htm

Reading for Information. For this 1st blog post, I want to talk about what is Mental Illness. Moreover, I’m one of many people who love to find many topics to increase my knowledge about things that not usually involved in my subject of study. When we read, it does not matter if it accidental reading or for finding information, it depends on the person themselves to find what they want in the internet.

People might know that mental illness causes by that person mental state that is not stable at that time or having personal problem. However, causes of mental illness also cause by physical state. From what I’ve learn in this article, mental illness mean ‘medical conditions that disrupt a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning’. It shows that a person medical conditions also effects from their way of thinking, feeling, mood and the most important thing is daily behaviour.

Mental illness can effect a person in any age, race, region or income. The depression that person feel not only felt to a person who have a difficult life but also a person who have everything from healthy body to prosperous life. The types of mental illness that I’ve learn from reading this article are major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and borderline personality disorder. Although people might say that mental illness taking a long time to recover, but as long as it can be cure, there’s hope, right?

These articles also state some important facts about mental illness and how to recover from it. For examples, the fact that mental illnesses usually strike individuals in the prime of their lives, often during adolescence and young adulthood. Moreover, all ages are susceptible, but the young and the old are especially vulnerable. It shows that during young and old age, the consequences of getting mental illness is bigger that during mature age.

The method to cure mental illness also being state in this article, and I have more knowledge in how to overcome with a person who in mental illness problem. However, the best method to cure mental illness is early identification and treatment is of vital importance; and by ensuring access to the treatment and recovery supports that are proven effective. Recovery from Mental Illness is accelerated and the further harm related to the course of illness is minimized if we take precaution about this problem seriously.

Finally, the exercise that could be form from this article is basically involved in classified the meaning of Mental Illness, to whom the Mental Illness would effect, types of Mental Illness, and facts about Mental Illness.

That's it for now..please enjoy the video that's involved Mental Illness...