Saturday, June 26, 2010
Friendship Travelling
this clip is taken by Mr. Sovannarith We were traveled with
each other on June 15, 2010
My History
MY HISTORYMy name is Soem Sovannarith is a second year student at Cambodian Mekong University, major is English for Business. Nowadays, I stay at Butomvatey Pagoda, Sangkat Chakttomuk, Khan Doun Penh, and Phnom Penh. I was born in Kampot Province on August 08, 1988. There are seven members in my family: my grandma, parents, older sister, and two younger brothers, and me. My parents are farmers.
After I was born 4 year in 1992, my mother sent me to live at my grand parents of father in rural area. It is 40 kilometers from my house. Over there I live with 7 members: grandparents, three aunts, uncle, and me. I lived there about two years, my mother takes me back. After that, my parents left to work at Prah Sihanou Vill (now province), so I lived with my grandmother and three siblings in 1994. My grandma is a yellow noodle with soup seller at primary school that I studied. It is Pichey U dong Primary school from my house about one kilometer. In that time, I always get up early to assist my grandma. My grandma gives me 400 riel per day to buy something I think that it is enough to spend during the child and for my study is good in the primary. I am very happy with my studying because it no need a lot for support in the school. And I also had free time for traveling with my friend and especially with my grandma. For example, my grandma brought me to Phnom Chiso, Phnom Tamou (Takeo Proving) and also we went for a walk with each other during big celebrates like Bun Pchum, Khmer New year, and chines New Year.
In 2000, I am a secondary student at Prah Reach Sampea Secondary School. In this time, my parent back home to live with us, my mother stays at home and father is a taxi driver. I am very so sad, because the father is turnover the car. During my family is poor than before nothing to pay back the passenger, so my grandma and my mother loan the money 2500$ to pay back for the passengers. Fortunately, my father has alive yet. Studying at secondary school is better, and I have ever got the compliment letter in grade seven. I also visited Prah Sihaknu vil with my father and grandma (Ochher Teal beach), dock and other places.
In 2003, I am a student of Prah Reach Sampea High School. In this year I started making a lot of friends, we were walking with each other like went to Kep Beach, Toek Chhou, and other resort. After I graduated grad 12 prepared to get nation examination to success in high school.
After I got pass in 2006 I stayed at home for six months, I applied for a job in Svay Reang Province. The information of this job was known by my uncle lives in Phnom Penh who his friend worked in this company. He called me to apply and complete application form on the end of November 2006, and he told me that pleas wait for calling because the company was still building. So I wait for the job for five months just he called me to work there on April 11, 2006. When I heard this inform, I am so happy and tomorrow I left my family to go to get the first job. I left home from 6:00 AM arrived Phnom Penh at 10:00 AM and had lunch at Botumvatey Pagoda that place of my uncle. I continued to the Svay Rieng Province After I have lunch already. I got svay Reang Province at 4:00 PM. I went to see the manager of human resources of this company that call Las Vegas Sun Hotel and Casino. When I saw it first I think that it is so large and modern place. During I saw the manager, he gave me an application form to fill again, and he told me that wait for tomorrow to interview. I just finished high school, so I did not know what position that I should apply. Because he was interviewing the staff of food and beverage department, I applied for the waiter.
Unfortunately, the sun got down to the west and night is closer and closer. Where can I stay? I am very afraid, because I have a lot of thing and some money to support my living. It is time for having the dinner I walked to find the restaurant to have. It is so happy because I saw the small restaurant next to the company. I entered this restaurant and have a plate of fry rice with lok lak with two candidates who I had know during complete the form of application. During the eating I told life line to the owner. After she listened to me, she pitied very for us, because she is from other province like us, so she let us stay for three day. But we have to serve the customers until 4:00 AM that I have never before. After that, I rent the room is far from company about 2 kilometers. Fortunately, I got pass of this position that make me so happy and stay at this rent room for three months just company give us a room for staying.
In my mind think about studying at the university but I do not have enough money for pay for school. So I have to struggle to work to save the money for continue studying.
After I worked a half of the year, my uncle requested the scholarship’s Sor Kheng Excellency minister of ministry of the interior who he gave to Human Resources University for poor students. So I stopped working to continue studying on October 15, 2008 at Human Resources University, major is banking in afternoon shift. It is not easy to learn at University in Phnom Penh, I stay at the pagoda. I learned at HRU for three months, my uncle requested scholarship one more university is Cambodian Mekong University that is Sam Dech Heng Samrin’s Scholarship. I started studying on the end of February 2008, major is English for Business.
I study two universities at the same time is very difficult for me but I think that my life is very lucky that I have learned two universities by no need money for paying. I would like to show gratitude for my grandma, parents, and uncle. They always provide me good advices and support me for studying, would like to thank all lecturers; they always spend a value of time, power, and moral force to lecture me. I wish all get 4 kinds of Buddha are age, class, comfortable, strength and successful in life.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Advantage and disadvantage of studying English grammar
Advantage and disadvantage of studying
English grammar
I. Introduction
We learn grammar because the public wants us to, indeed demands it. For if there is a literacy "crisis," then he obvious solution must be to get "back to the basics." And what could be more fundamental to language arts instruction than a rigorous component of "grammar"? But that's not good enough. The wide and uncritical public acceptance of the need for ram- mar instruction should not make the question "Why?" A moot one for us, the language instruction professionals. We must have academic answers to justify spending the time, a rationale which explains how studying grammar fosters skills or enriches content we want students to learn.
Learning English grammar is not easy to learn because it has many forms and differences usages especially in the macro skills of English, so some students say that study English grammar is not importance for our macro-skills and some say that study English grammar is very importance for our macro-skills. Because of these ideas I would like to discus some reasons about this topic whether studying English is more advantages or disadvantages.
II. Discussion and finding
- What is Grammar?
the word grammar has to mean "the set of organizing principles which native speakers intuitively follow." In this sense grammar is the unconscious knowledge which we learned as very young children during language acquisition. Why should we study English Grammar? you know how to put words together in a sensible order and add the right endings. Whether or not you've ever opened a grammar book, you know how to produce combinations of sounds and of letters that others can understand. After all, English was used for a thousand years before the first grammar books ever appeared. But how much do you know about grammar. Grammar is the system of a language. People sometimes describe grammar as the "rules" of a language; but in fact no language has rules. Grammar provides the rules for putting words together, and instruction often focuses on the form and inflection of wordsThe following is the six reasons for study English grammar.
- Accepting the Challenge: "Because It's There." People are constantly curious about the world in which they live, and wish to understand it and (as with mountains) master it. Grammar is no different from any other domain of knowledge in this respect.
- Being Human: language is involved with almost everything we do as human beings. We cannot live without language. To understand the linguistic dimension of our existence would be no mean achievement.
- Exploring Our Creative Ability: Our grammatical ability is extraordinary. It is probably the most creative ability we have. There is no limit to what we can say or write, yet all of this potential is controlled by a finite number of rules. How is this done?
- Solving Problems: Nonetheless, our language can let us down. We encounter ambiguity, and unintelligible speech or writing. To deal with these problems, we need to put grammar under the microscope, and work out what went wrong.
- Learning Other Languages: Learning about English grammar provides a basis for learning other languages. Much of the apparatus we need to study English turns out to be of general usefulness.
- Increasing Our Awareness: After studying grammar, we should be more alert to the strength, flexibility, and variety of our language, and thus be in a better position to use it and to evaluate others' use of it.
III. Advantages and Disadvantages of Grammars
1. Advantage of Grammars
The learning a foreign language was considered to be merely a part of a liberal education or an intellectual exercise through the study of grammar and literature. It was automatically assumed that anyone studying foreign language as a major field was going to be either a teacher, an interpreter, or a translator and had no other career options. There is still a need for people in those professions. There is also a growing need for individuals who possess advanced skills in foreign languages and are trained in various technical areas. This is a result of increased activity in international business, the inflow of large amounts of foreign capital to the United States, increased internationalization, and an expanded awareness of the need to conduct not only business but also diplomatic relations in the language of the host country. . Given that some kind of formal grammar seems to be taught in most school systems outside the Anglo-Saxon world (Hudson 1998), and given that it is usually taught for the sake of its effects on writing, there must (one would think) be some research on its effectiveness. This bibliography is meant to grow, so I welcome suggestions for addition or correction. When talking about language skills, the four basic ones are: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
- Writing Skill
Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system). Writing may use abstract characters that represent phonetic elements of speech, as in Indo-European languages, or it may use simplified representations of objects or concepts, as in east-Asian and ancient Egyptian pictographic writing forms. However, it is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as magnetic tape audio.
Writing is an extension of human language across time and space. Writing most likely began as a consequence of political expansion in ancient cultures, which needed reliable means for transmitting information, maintaining financial accounts, keeping historical records, and similar activities. Around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of trade and administration outgrew the power of memory, and writing became a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions in a permanent form (Robinson, 2003, p. 36). In both Mesoamerica and Ancient. Egypt writing may have evolved through calendrics and a political necessity for recording historical and environmental events.
- Speaking Skill
Speaking a language, whether it is our first or second language, grammatical mistakes will be made. The aim of this essay is to look into what kinds of mistakes some Swedish learners of English make when speaking English and to analyze why these mistakes are made. The essay also aims at looking into what grammar teaching can look like in Sweden and how some teachers look upon their students’ oral proficiency.
The method used for this study was a qualitative one, namely interviews. Twelve students, eight in grade seven and four in grade nine, and two teachers were interviewed. During the interviews with the students a Dictaphone was used. When interviewing the teachers notes were taken, and these have been the foundation of the analysis. results showed that many of the mistakes made by the students seemed to originate in transfer from their first language.
- Listening Skill
Listening is a critical part of communication, and poor listening can contribute to a host of interpersonal and organizational problems. Because a great deal of communication time is spent listening, errors are often costly. Communications research indicates that listening errors are common; organizational members often listen inadequately, hindering personal and organizational success.
There are two major types of listening: recall listening and empathic listening. With recall listening, a person attempts to correctly interpret and remember the content of what another person says. Recall listening can be improved greatly by minimizing distractions and practicing other good listening habits. Empathic listening involves expressing certain attitudes toward the speaker, such as openness to their message, enthusiasm, and concern. A good empathic listener will use nonverbal signals like nodding and eye contact to indicate a willingness to hear the message.
- Reading Skill
Reading of difficult classical texts is begun early. Little attention is paid to the content of texts, which are treated as exercises in grammatical analysis. Often the only drills are exercises in translating disconnected sentences from the target language into the mother tongue. Little or no attention is given to pronunciation.
2. Disadvantages of Grammars
The Grammar may make the language learning experience uninspiring and boring. The Grammar Translation Method may also left the students with a sense of frustration when they travel to countries where the studied language is used (they can’t understand what people say and have to struggle mightily to express themselves at the most basic level. This method neither approaches nor encourages the students’ communicative competence. This method requires few specialized skills on the part of teachers. Grammar rules and Translation Tests are easy to construct and can be objectively scored. Many standardized tests of foreign languages still do not attempt to test communicative abilities, so students have little motivation to go beyond grammar analogies, translations and other written exercises.
Writing the paper on different types and forms of teacher and peer feedback in writing instruction for the purposes of understanding their advantages and disadvantages to improve the process of learning. I'm writing this entry in the hope of both sharing the ways it is done in my classroom and having some discussion about your approaches to giving feedback on your students writing. Students receive different types of feedback on their writing, such as peer feedback on their first draft and teacher commentary on the second one. Peer feedback is given to students in class and has to address the questions about the content, organization and the mechanics of their peers’ essays at a basic level.
Reading so far shows a number of directions in which the system of feedback might’ve described can be improved. The teacher feedback should be made more specific and focused. Being selective is very important not to overwhelm the students with the amount of correction made in their drafts and to let the teacher save some time on commenting on the students' papers, which is one of the most time-consuming activities anyway. Make good use of peer feedback they should be systematically trained how to do it, with one of the suggestions being the teacher using one of the student's papers to model good examples of giving feedback.
Conclusion
Indeed I studied and researched by internet and some books that writing about Grammar I can assess that the advantage of studying grammar is the language that makes it possible for us to talk about language. Grammar names the types of words and word groups that make up sentences not only in English but in any language. As human beings, we can put sentences together even as children, can all do grammar. But to be able to talk about how sentences are built, about the types of words and word groups that make up sentences that knows about grammar. People associate grammar with errors and correctness. But knowing about grammar also helps us understand what makes sentences and paragraphs clear and interesting and precise. Grammar can be part of literature discussions, when I and other students closely read the sentences in poetry and stories. And knowing about grammar means finding out that all languages and all dialects follow grammatical patterns.
Recommendation
Students benefit much more from learning a few grammar keys thoroughly than from trying to remember many terms and rules. Experiment with different approaches until you find the ones that work the best for you and your students. Some teachers focus on showing students how phrases add rich detail to sentences. Other teachers find that sentence diagrams help students see the organization of sentences. Some use grammar metaphors some emphasize the verb as the key part of speech, showing students how the sentence is built around it and how vivid verbs create vivid sentences. Whatever approaches you takes to grammar; show students how to apply it not only to their writing but also to their reading and to their other language arts activities.
English grammar
I. Introduction
We learn grammar because the public wants us to, indeed demands it. For if there is a literacy "crisis," then he obvious solution must be to get "back to the basics." And what could be more fundamental to language arts instruction than a rigorous component of "grammar"? But that's not good enough. The wide and uncritical public acceptance of the need for ram- mar instruction should not make the question "Why?" A moot one for us, the language instruction professionals. We must have academic answers to justify spending the time, a rationale which explains how studying grammar fosters skills or enriches content we want students to learn.
Learning English grammar is not easy to learn because it has many forms and differences usages especially in the macro skills of English, so some students say that study English grammar is not importance for our macro-skills and some say that study English grammar is very importance for our macro-skills. Because of these ideas I would like to discus some reasons about this topic whether studying English is more advantages or disadvantages.
II. Discussion and finding
- What is Grammar?
the word grammar has to mean "the set of organizing principles which native speakers intuitively follow." In this sense grammar is the unconscious knowledge which we learned as very young children during language acquisition. Why should we study English Grammar? you know how to put words together in a sensible order and add the right endings. Whether or not you've ever opened a grammar book, you know how to produce combinations of sounds and of letters that others can understand. After all, English was used for a thousand years before the first grammar books ever appeared. But how much do you know about grammar. Grammar is the system of a language. People sometimes describe grammar as the "rules" of a language; but in fact no language has rules. Grammar provides the rules for putting words together, and instruction often focuses on the form and inflection of wordsThe following is the six reasons for study English grammar.
- Accepting the Challenge: "Because It's There." People are constantly curious about the world in which they live, and wish to understand it and (as with mountains) master it. Grammar is no different from any other domain of knowledge in this respect.
- Being Human: language is involved with almost everything we do as human beings. We cannot live without language. To understand the linguistic dimension of our existence would be no mean achievement.
- Exploring Our Creative Ability: Our grammatical ability is extraordinary. It is probably the most creative ability we have. There is no limit to what we can say or write, yet all of this potential is controlled by a finite number of rules. How is this done?
- Solving Problems: Nonetheless, our language can let us down. We encounter ambiguity, and unintelligible speech or writing. To deal with these problems, we need to put grammar under the microscope, and work out what went wrong.
- Learning Other Languages: Learning about English grammar provides a basis for learning other languages. Much of the apparatus we need to study English turns out to be of general usefulness.
- Increasing Our Awareness: After studying grammar, we should be more alert to the strength, flexibility, and variety of our language, and thus be in a better position to use it and to evaluate others' use of it.
III. Advantages and Disadvantages of Grammars
1. Advantage of Grammars
The learning a foreign language was considered to be merely a part of a liberal education or an intellectual exercise through the study of grammar and literature. It was automatically assumed that anyone studying foreign language as a major field was going to be either a teacher, an interpreter, or a translator and had no other career options. There is still a need for people in those professions. There is also a growing need for individuals who possess advanced skills in foreign languages and are trained in various technical areas. This is a result of increased activity in international business, the inflow of large amounts of foreign capital to the United States, increased internationalization, and an expanded awareness of the need to conduct not only business but also diplomatic relations in the language of the host country. . Given that some kind of formal grammar seems to be taught in most school systems outside the Anglo-Saxon world (Hudson 1998), and given that it is usually taught for the sake of its effects on writing, there must (one would think) be some research on its effectiveness. This bibliography is meant to grow, so I welcome suggestions for addition or correction. When talking about language skills, the four basic ones are: listening, speaking, reading and writing.
- Writing Skill
Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system). Writing may use abstract characters that represent phonetic elements of speech, as in Indo-European languages, or it may use simplified representations of objects or concepts, as in east-Asian and ancient Egyptian pictographic writing forms. However, it is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as magnetic tape audio.
Writing is an extension of human language across time and space. Writing most likely began as a consequence of political expansion in ancient cultures, which needed reliable means for transmitting information, maintaining financial accounts, keeping historical records, and similar activities. Around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of trade and administration outgrew the power of memory, and writing became a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions in a permanent form (Robinson, 2003, p. 36). In both Mesoamerica and Ancient. Egypt writing may have evolved through calendrics and a political necessity for recording historical and environmental events.
- Speaking Skill
Speaking a language, whether it is our first or second language, grammatical mistakes will be made. The aim of this essay is to look into what kinds of mistakes some Swedish learners of English make when speaking English and to analyze why these mistakes are made. The essay also aims at looking into what grammar teaching can look like in Sweden and how some teachers look upon their students’ oral proficiency.
The method used for this study was a qualitative one, namely interviews. Twelve students, eight in grade seven and four in grade nine, and two teachers were interviewed. During the interviews with the students a Dictaphone was used. When interviewing the teachers notes were taken, and these have been the foundation of the analysis. results showed that many of the mistakes made by the students seemed to originate in transfer from their first language.
- Listening Skill
Listening is a critical part of communication, and poor listening can contribute to a host of interpersonal and organizational problems. Because a great deal of communication time is spent listening, errors are often costly. Communications research indicates that listening errors are common; organizational members often listen inadequately, hindering personal and organizational success.
There are two major types of listening: recall listening and empathic listening. With recall listening, a person attempts to correctly interpret and remember the content of what another person says. Recall listening can be improved greatly by minimizing distractions and practicing other good listening habits. Empathic listening involves expressing certain attitudes toward the speaker, such as openness to their message, enthusiasm, and concern. A good empathic listener will use nonverbal signals like nodding and eye contact to indicate a willingness to hear the message.
- Reading Skill
Reading of difficult classical texts is begun early. Little attention is paid to the content of texts, which are treated as exercises in grammatical analysis. Often the only drills are exercises in translating disconnected sentences from the target language into the mother tongue. Little or no attention is given to pronunciation.
2. Disadvantages of Grammars
The Grammar may make the language learning experience uninspiring and boring. The Grammar Translation Method may also left the students with a sense of frustration when they travel to countries where the studied language is used (they can’t understand what people say and have to struggle mightily to express themselves at the most basic level. This method neither approaches nor encourages the students’ communicative competence. This method requires few specialized skills on the part of teachers. Grammar rules and Translation Tests are easy to construct and can be objectively scored. Many standardized tests of foreign languages still do not attempt to test communicative abilities, so students have little motivation to go beyond grammar analogies, translations and other written exercises.
Writing the paper on different types and forms of teacher and peer feedback in writing instruction for the purposes of understanding their advantages and disadvantages to improve the process of learning. I'm writing this entry in the hope of both sharing the ways it is done in my classroom and having some discussion about your approaches to giving feedback on your students writing. Students receive different types of feedback on their writing, such as peer feedback on their first draft and teacher commentary on the second one. Peer feedback is given to students in class and has to address the questions about the content, organization and the mechanics of their peers’ essays at a basic level.
Reading so far shows a number of directions in which the system of feedback might’ve described can be improved. The teacher feedback should be made more specific and focused. Being selective is very important not to overwhelm the students with the amount of correction made in their drafts and to let the teacher save some time on commenting on the students' papers, which is one of the most time-consuming activities anyway. Make good use of peer feedback they should be systematically trained how to do it, with one of the suggestions being the teacher using one of the student's papers to model good examples of giving feedback.
Conclusion
Indeed I studied and researched by internet and some books that writing about Grammar I can assess that the advantage of studying grammar is the language that makes it possible for us to talk about language. Grammar names the types of words and word groups that make up sentences not only in English but in any language. As human beings, we can put sentences together even as children, can all do grammar. But to be able to talk about how sentences are built, about the types of words and word groups that make up sentences that knows about grammar. People associate grammar with errors and correctness. But knowing about grammar also helps us understand what makes sentences and paragraphs clear and interesting and precise. Grammar can be part of literature discussions, when I and other students closely read the sentences in poetry and stories. And knowing about grammar means finding out that all languages and all dialects follow grammatical patterns.
Recommendation
Students benefit much more from learning a few grammar keys thoroughly than from trying to remember many terms and rules. Experiment with different approaches until you find the ones that work the best for you and your students. Some teachers focus on showing students how phrases add rich detail to sentences. Other teachers find that sentence diagrams help students see the organization of sentences. Some use grammar metaphors some emphasize the verb as the key part of speech, showing students how the sentence is built around it and how vivid verbs create vivid sentences. Whatever approaches you takes to grammar; show students how to apply it not only to their writing but also to their reading and to their other language arts activities.
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