Islamic Awareness

Nazira
- The one thing I gained after entering IIUM is that I've changed to a more independent person. But there is a change that I do not like which is the lack of fun. IIUM is pretty much a boring place to study. I spent most of my times in my room doing assignments and stuff and went outside of IIUM to relax. I won't lie, I am glad that I am finally graduating this year. But I will forever be grateful to the lecturers and friends here for the knowledge and experiences. For this class, on the other hand, since we had to search for a Youtube video for our CMC task, we did not put much thought into choosing it. However, we did realize that we had to follow through the Islamic guidelines and not pick a video that could be deemed as un-Islamic. We avoided the ones filled with violence and profanity and ended up choosing a video that talks about dirty stuff like poop. We did not consider it as a bad video since we thought that people would not be put off by the video. The only bad word that was used in the video was 'shit' and we thought it was still okay and mediocre in the profanity section. But throughout the presentation, we noticed that the only person who had a strong reaction to the bad words is Madam Rozina. And then we reflected on this. Although most of the class were okay with it, we thought that we need to consider other people's feeling as well.This taught us that there are certain border that we should probably not cross especially in front of the lecturer.

Sahi
-Alhamdulillah i am mostly thankful to Allah who put me in this class with very knowledgeable and motherly Dr. Rozina and later put us three together in a group. While i have always heard that learning is to take place everyday whether we are in learning institution or not, graduated or not, its an ongoing process and somehow through this ENGL 4740 class and nearing graduation i have come to realise that it is true. For that i thank IIUM, lecturers, friends, and everyone for making my on going learning process fun and memorable. InsyaAllah i hope that me, nazira and sofi as well as the rest of the class will never stop learning and tadabbur.    


Safiyyah
- throughout this course, not only did I get to learn more about CALL but also about myself as well as my friends. Getting along with my groupmates to work on the assignments given to us has taught me a lot about appreciating the people around me. I think that this is one of the many Islamic values I received during the class. As a Muslim, being thankful is important because not everyone gets what we get and it might not last long. Then there are the occasional tazkirah Dr. Rozina sometimes delivered randomly during class time. I remember her saying something along the lines of making a boring class Islamic is better than trying to make it seem fun. And I can't agree more as we are in an Islamic university after all.

Reflection of BLOG

Reflection of the whole project:

• taught us more about CALL and its function in language learning

• we learned how to manage our time in doing the tasks and blog while trying to finish other course's assignments

• the process of finishing the blog is challenging since it is not easy as expected

• teamwork is very important

• we realized the significance of computer as a tool in language learning and teaching

Reflection of Graded Task 3

Since this is the the second proposal that we are assigned to, it makes things easier as we already know the steps and ways to construct a proposal. last research proposal we made was on CMC, and this time its on CALL. we tried to link the topic with IIUM and decided to test out ot proposal on CELPAD students as they are all still learning language either English or Arabic. what can we reflect on this research proposal is that, there actually lots of ways that teachers and lecturers can use to teach language aside from the conventional ways of power point presentation and exercises from books. this somehow make one of us become motivated to be a teacher and apply what we have learned here in IIUM towards her students.

Reflection of Graded Task 2

  Upon finishing the task, we have learned that Youtube video is a great CMC mode to analyze human's sound speech in the basis of phonetics and phonology. Youtube video is an asynchronous which takes place outside of real time. Since our literature review does not match our data analysis which is on the differences of British and American accent, we had a hard time relating them both. It is difficult to find a research that studies Youtube by connecting it with phonetics and phonology. We felt sorry for this but we did not have any other choice.

Reflection of Graded Task 1

 This task is probably one of the hardest tasks ever given by a BENL lecturer to a student. It is complicated because all three of us in the group do not have the interest to go in the teaching area thus resulting to our lack of knowledge on how a proper lesson plan is to be conducted. As we struggled to create a proper lesson plan, we soon realized how hard it is to be a teacher; how a lesson plan should be thoroughly thought of and how we should consider the age and mentality of our own students and so many more. I therefore applaud all teachers in the world for being patient and most of all, amazing. I, for one, would not be going near that area because I know deep down I do not belong in the teaching world but who knows what will happen in the future anyway. This task has made me reflect so much about this. 

Reflection 1

1.) Which courses incorporate the use of computer in the teaching and learning.

We chose 'Twentieth Century Literature' taught by Dr. Mahmudul Hassan as one of the courses that uses computer in the teaching and learning process


2.) Were the computer-based activities related to any of the THREE stages of CALL?

Yes, this course uses a mix of behaviorist and integrative CALL approach.


3.) What are the important concepts in the THREE stages related to the activities?


 Dr.Mahmudul uses the computer as a tool when he gives out link to the students a day before the class to let them study about the topic first. And he would ask the students question to see if they have read the link or not. The uneasiness of not being able to answer his answer forces the students to study the topic thoroughly before entering the class. He also would give out tasks to do through emails and the use of Google Group. Thus the learner-teacher-computer interaction was emphasized.