Emir Dean's Blog

  Assalamualaikum and a very good day again everyone. This is my fifth entry and I am going to talk about podcast. In recent class, I learned that with using podcast and digital story telling can aid students in improving and achieve something in language learning.  First of all, let I give the definition of podcast. Podcast is a digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or mobile device, typically available as a series, new installments of which can be received by subscribers automatically. Students can listen to existing podcast anywhere via application such as soundcloud. They even can make their own podcast by recording and publish it on soundcloud for free. Students can choose any genres that they like and listen them anywhere. By listening to the podcast, they might improve their language efficiency.  For your information, I had been given a task which is I need to make may own podcast and post it on my blog. At the ...

      Assalamualaikum and a very good day everyone. Today I will continue my writing on the topic how to design a course ware. The part that I most interested in this topic is on Addie Model Framework. It is the generic process traditionally used by instructional designers and training developers. This framework will assist course ware designer to design and give their best to make a course work. They are five components of Addie Model. Which are analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation. Below is an info graphic on Addie Model to make things clearer. As conclusion, with Addie Model, it can aid most course ware builder. They can create quality and effective course ware that can help teachers and students to succeed in their life.

Assalamualaikum and a very good day everyone. Today I am going to proceed with my third entry. I hope my writings can help and give a bit of something to all of you. This is may late post because I redo all my posts because I want to make better blog. In my previous class, Madam Azidatun taught me about computer mediated communication (CMC) and ESL. First of all, I would like to give the definition of what is computer mediated communication. Computer mediated  communication is a type of communication that use two or more electronic devices to communicate. For example, people use mobile phone to communicate with others via communication application such as Whatsapp, Gmail and Wechat.  Besides, CMC is also used in language learning process. For example, teachers use forum or specific group to give students notes and exercises. By using this forum, students and teacher can communicate instantly. Teacher also can give students soft copy materials or link...

Assalamualaikum and a very good day everyone. Today I am going to talk about Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). On my recent class, my lecturer taught us about the evolution of CALL. First of all, what is CALL? CALL is an approach to language teaching and learning in which the computer is used as an aid to the presentation, reinforcement and assessment of material to be learned, usually including a substantial interactive element. Next I would like to give a light briefing on the history of call. It started back in 1960s' and CALL was used widely on 1970s' by American Universities such as University Of Illinois. CALL was used on a mainframe computers at that time. When the arrival of personal computer (PC), CALL get into its booming era. Most of the program at that time was associated with programmed instruction. CALL had been updated since then and helped a lot of people. There are a few types of CALL which are behaviorist CALL, communicative CALL ...