What an amazing boy!

For those who were in my Language Acquisition class on the day we discussed "What is language?" I'm sure you could remember a boy singing Jason Mraz's song "I'm Yours". I happened to find more songs by this boy on a website and I think you may love to see his talent so I put this link for you. http://www.youtube.com/user/uke3453#p/u/0/ErMWX--UJZ4

Moreover, there's another boy who is younger than the first one but sings the Beatle's song "Hey Jude" nicely. Amazingly, he really sings the song not just utters it. Check this out and you will understand why I'd like to share this with you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgrrQwLdME8&feature=player_embedded

For those who have never heard the original song. Please follow this link to see Paul McCartney sings Hey Jude: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEKgYKpEJ3o&feature=fvw.

If we have time after we finish 'How Languages Are learned', we may discuss about these 2 kids in the field of Language Acquisition, what do you think?

Annotated bibliography

What we discussed today in a our seminar course is how to write an annotated bibliography or annotation. This is what we agreeed upon.


Annotated bibliography (Annotation)

What to be in there?

1. Title of the text Write the title and its citation

Task-based language teaching: sorting out the misunderstandings
Ellis, R. (2009) Task-based language teaching: sorting out the misunderstandings. International of Applied Linguistics. 19.3: 221-246

2. Brief content

Research
- Research questions & objectives
- Methodology (quantitative or qualitative or mixed design)
- Population & sample
- Results/ findings
- Application or other thing(s) you found interesting and useful to your work

Theory/ Review
- Brief content
- Samples/ topics

3. Your reflection

-Reflection of how (and why) you want to use this article/ text

And we did some practice in writing those annotations from 3 different articles.

Homework assignment:

1. Write outline of chapter 2 and make some annotations according to that outline.
2. Present some part of chapter 2 using your annotations next time we meet.

You can see more details from this link: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/

Welcome to my courses

This blog is written for my students in Burapha University. I hope that this can be an easy way to communicate among us while we're away from the class. The links below are supposed to help you find more articles related to the courses.