- Auxiliary verbs
- Biography
- Broucher
- Characteristics of a Good Read
- Characteristics of New Journal
- Clause
- Cohesion in english
- Conjunctions
- Determiners
- Interjections
- Journalism
- Kresian theory
- Language acquisition Noun phrase
- Noun phrase
- Prepositions
- Pronouns
- Sentences and Clauses
- Varieties of English
- Verbs
- Handout 8: X-bar syntax and adverbials
- Adverbs and Their Function
- ADVERBS ADVERBIALS
- Verb Phrase Recognition Practice
- What Are Helping Verbs
24 July 2011
Language notes
23 July 2011
Assignments semi I 2011
- Computer Assisted Language Learning I (CALL) (EN 1110)
- English Literature -1 (EN 1108)
- Effective Communication Skills(EN 1104)
- Language Structure, Usage and Linguistics I (EN 1105)
- Listening in English 1 (EN 1103)
- Vocabulary Development I (EN 1106)
- Practical and Professional Writing I (EN 1101)
- Study Skills I (EN 1109)
- Listening in English I
- Practical Criticism
- Listening
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
See
- Warschauer, M and Healey.D.1998. Computers and Language learning: An overview. In Language Teaching 31.
- Websites:
Project-Based Learning
What is it?
•Project-based education is an instructional approach that seeks to contextualize language learning by involving learners in projects, rather than in isolated activities targeting specific skills.
•Project-based learning activities generally
–integrate language and cognitive skills
–connect to real-life problems
–generate high learner interest
–involve some cooperative or group learning skills
–integrate language and cognitive skills
–connect to real-life problems
–generate high learner interest
–involve some cooperative or group learning skills
Desktop Publishing & Project-Based Learning
Introduction
- Desktop Publishing is an example of a technology application that can be integrated into Project Based Learning (PBL).
- This module presents the process of designing and planning PBL with desktop publishing and multimedia
Project Based Learning
- Project Based Learning (PBL) combined with multimedia is a powerful teaching and learning strategy engaging students in complex activities that can seamlessly integrate technology into curriculum and instruction.
About
Project Based Learning
- Project-based learning (PBL) is an approach to instruction , focuses on problem-solving and/or product development.
- Learners generally work collaboratively in groups to solve a problem, accomplish a task, or both. PBL helps students see how the skills and content they learn in the classroom can apply to real-life
21 July 2011
English Victorian Poetry Group Project
- Objectives
- To provide students with direct experience with reading and understanding poetry
- To expose students to English Victorian poetry
- To encourage group learning, sharing and responsibility
- To provide students with opportunities to read poetry aloud in front of an audience
- To require students to express their thoughts and knowledge about a specific poem in a well- organized essay.
- Project Overview
- Students are assigned to work on the project in groups.
- Students will make a presentation to the entire class on the poems assigned to them.
- This presentation must cover the areas indicated below.
- The style and manner of presentation is left to the discretion of the group.
- Students will also write an individual essay on one of the poems assigned to them.
- Group Presentation All members of the group must be involved with the planning and presentation of the report. Every member in the group will receive the same score for the group presentation. At least one full class period will be devoted for group preparation on the project.
Groups must complete and submit to the teacher a completed “Poem Analysis Form” (see below) for each poem. In addition to covering the technical aspects of the poems, the group must address the meaning of each poem during the course of their 20 minute presentation. Each poem must be read aloud to the class by a member or members of the group during the presentation.
Groups must also formulate five True/False and five Multiple Choice questions for use on the test/exam.
The method of presentation is up to the decision and creativity of the group. Audio and visual aids, such as slide shows, original videos, etc. will enhance the presentation and are most welcome.
IV. Essay Assignment
Each student must write his/her own individual essay concerning one of the poems assigned to his/her group. The essay must be a five paragraph essay with separate introductory and concluding paragraphs. Typed essays must be double-spaced. Students are to answer this question in their essays:
William Wordsworth remarked, “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings (it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility).” Choose one of the poems from those assigned to your group and demonstrate how it is or is not a good poem according to Wordsworth’s definition.
V. Grading
Group Presentation – 50 points
Personal Essay – 30 points
VI. Assigned Poets and Poems
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3
Tennyson Browning Hopkins
“Ulysses” “My Last Duchess” “God’s Grandeur”
“Break, Break, Break” “Home Thoughts from “The Windhover”
“The Eagle” Abroad” “Pied Beauty”
“Crossing the Bar” “Prospice” “Spring and Fall:
To a Young Child”
Group 4
Housman
Eliz. Browning
“To an Athlete Dying more or different poets and poems may be
Young” selected depending on number of students
“Is My Team Ploughing” in the class and availability of poems
Sonnet 14
Sonnet 43
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