Yes and absolutely yes. Computer can provide me so many useful knowledge. By using computer I could search any information about language learning. I also could test my knowledge by answering test question that been provided in several website. That’s why computer could assist me to become a better language learner. Internet has everything but unfortunately it is not human. I think that learning something from human being such as our lecturer is also effective to help me to become a good language learner. If I don’t understand something, I just need to ask them. Communicate with human being is more rational right? Be cause I cant ask computer if I don’t understand it….= )

(b) How effective is blogging in assisting you in the followings:

1.Building confidence in writing:
Honestly…blogging really build up my confidence in writing. Usually I made so many simple mistake in my writing. When I post something in my blog I can feel that I am indirectly improved my confidence in writing. I am free to write anything that i want to. At the same time blogging also can indirectly improved our grammar.
2.Confidence in publishing my work.
In my opinion, everytime i published my post it does really improved my confidence in publishing my work. If at the very first time I doing it, it feels quite awkward….but now I almost can say anything that comes into my mind to my blog. I think it just a natural way of learning like people says “practice makes perfect”.
3.Getting ideas to write.
This one is very hard to answer. Because at first when I am about to start posting in my blog, I want it to be a formal, full of information and interactive blog. But now i just like it to be more informal so people can visit my blog and read the post without boring. I’m also very lucky to do this blog because the more I write, the more ideas comes into my mind.
Some informations in my blog also are usefull in my other subject like “ICT for social sciences” at the faculty.

(c) If you are going to use computer to teach language one day which language learning website will you recommend?

I think, I will refer to the website below for teaching language using a computer. This website provides user many applications such as grammar explanations, grammar exercises, download sheet and many more. There are also another language can be learned in this website such as Koreans, Spanish and many more
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U can find sample of concordance here:
http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html

http://www.englishjet.com/english_courses_files/tests.htm

Advantages of OnLine EngLish Test:
1. User could get the correct answer immediately.
2. Save time cause user could use OLT anywhere.
3. Save paper using budget.
4. More friendly environment.
5. Student will not boring.

Disadvantages of OnLine EngLish Test:
1. The questions are same.
2. Always looking to computer could hurt our eyes.
3. If the user answer with wrong choice, the explanation are not been given.
4. Simple questions…..
Try it for urseLf..Its kinda fun to kill some time..
Try it here ===> http://www.englishjet.com/english_courses_files/tests.htm

Sonnet 18
by: William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Sonnet 18, often alternately titled Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?, is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises sonnets 1-126 in the accepted numbering stemming from the first edition in 1609), it is the first of the cycle after the opening sequence now described as the Procreation sonnets. Most scholars now agree that the original subject of the poem, the beloved to whom the poet is writing, is a male, though the poem is commonly used to describe a woman.
In the sonnet, the poet compares his beloved to the summer season, and argues that his beloved is better. The poet also states that his beloved will live on forever through the words of the poem. Scholars have found parallels within the poem to Ovid’s Tristia and Amores, both of which have love themes. Sonnet 18 is written in the typical Shakespearean sonnet form, having 14 lines of iambic pentameter ending in a rhymed couplet. Detailed exegeses have revealed several double meanings within the poem, giving it a greater depth of interpretation.

In conclusion, based on the research found that student enjoy the idea of E-Forum and Blog but still there are many weakness that need to be recover.

• Like conversational speech, it uses short, back-and-forth statements, sometimes consisting of single words. Its vocabulary is relatively small. It’s relaxed about the rules of grammar. The smiley faces and other so-called “emoticons” help compensate for the lack of face-to-face contact.
• Instant messaging, or IM, “looks more like speech than it does like writing,” said Naomi Baron, a linguistics professor at American University in Washington who analyzed more than 2,100 such conversations at her university.
• It’s become “a mainstay of online communication, especially among teenagers and young adults,” she said. The exchanges often involved multiple partners at the same time, much like a group conversation in a room.
• The college students Baron studied usually were doing something else – listening to music, watching TV, talking on the telephone, writing memos or letters on the computer – while they were exchanging instant messages.
• Contrary to purists’ fears, only 171 of the 11,718 words she collected were misspelled – less than 2 percent. Unusual abbreviations and symbols were relatively rare. The most common was the letter “k” standing for “OK.”
• Another branch of Netspeak is blogs, periodic messages posted on the World Wide Web, usually with the latest entry on top. Blogs range from individual journals to accounts of presidential campaigns. Many of them allow visitors to leave comments, which can lead to a community of readers centered on the blog.
• Blogs are “already providing evidence of a new genre of diary writing, which a few years ago was though to be dying out as a literary domain,” Crystal said.
• Crystal took issue with “prophets of doom” who complain that new technology is corrupting the language, as other critics did when printing was introduced in the 15th century, the telephone came along in the 19th century and broadcasting took off in the 20th. In fact, the Greek philosopher Plato said more than two millennia ago that talking was more important than writing.
• Thanks to the Internet, the language’s “resources for the expression of informality in writing have hugely increased, something which hasn’t been seen in English since the Middle Ages, and which was largely lost when standard English came to be established in the 18th century,” Crystal said.
• “Rather than condemning it, we should be exulting in the fact that the Internet is allowing us to once more explore the power of the written language in a creative way,” he added.
• So far, Netspeak is mainly a dialect of English. More than 90 percent of the conversations on the Internet in Europe are conducted in English, said Susan Herring, a researcher at Indiana University, Bloomington.
• “For the foreseeable future, English will be the lingua franca of the Internet,” she said.
• But foreign variants of Netspeak are cropping up, especially in Japan. According to Herring, Japanese use emoticons – called kaomoji, meaning “face marks” – more than Americans do.
• Males and females differ in their use of Netspeak, as they do in spoken English.
• “Men are more likely to engage in sarcasm, sexual humor and swearing than women,” said Simeon Yates, an expert on computer communication at Sheffield Hallan University in Sheffield, England.
• “Conversely, women are more likely to offer support, to be affectionate or to use emotion,” he said.
• Internet conversations between females lasted much longer than between males, Yates reported. Male-female chats tended to be of intermediate length.

FB and MS both are popular social networking sites nowadays.
Plenty of different between those 2 sites.
For FB got a lot of applications and more fun than Myspace..
Its not like Myspace is not fun but surely that Myspace lack of applications and games than Facebook.
Eventhough in Myspace u can customize ur wall but it still lack of fun..For Facebook u cant customize ur wall..u cant put on layout or decorate it. U can only use default layout,.
But i believe soon Facebook will change the layout..
Myspace is like try to imitate Facebook aplications..Like shout out post,comments and many more..
SimiLarities between these 2 are both are social networking sites which we can connecting wif other people or our friend by using it..
We also can uploaded our pictures to let people know us beter.
For Me i reaLLy prefer Facebook than Myspace becoz its lot of fun and interesting..!!