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Have neglected this storeroom and my choked up bloglines feeds for quite some time. Came upon two posts by Christopher D. Sessums@eduspaces.net. One post was him brainstorming on possible exams questions for his summer "Introduction to Ed Tech Course" (with many excellently practical questions), qn 10 was on "Serious Gaming" which used Neuromatrix, a new educational video game designed to teach neuroscience to 9-15 children. In his other post on a brief look of video/computer games, there's a comprehensive review of Dodlinger's (2007) literature review on elements that promoted learning.

As a gamer myself for over 15 years (until recent shifting of priorities to work n family), I would definitely love to engage students in games and learning CL as they play the games. Have not seen ed. games like Neuromatrix in Chinese yet. When will such games materialise, next 10 yrs perhaps? And in the meantime, any chance of learning CL while engaging in non-CL games? *hmm*

nearly 1 month ago, 20th june marks the day that i'm officially graduated from my (1st) MA course and this is the envelope that flew all the way from singapore:

besides sharing the joy, here's my research for sharing:

Title:

An Exploratory Study on a Metacognitive Approach to Teaching and Learning of Spontaneous Speaking in Chinese Language with Audioblogs

Keywords:

chinese language, speaking, audioblogs, metacognition, language learning, language teaching, educational technology, weblog, edublog, ??, ????,???,??,????,????

Summary:

Language learning involves four areas, namely listening, speaking, reading
and writing. This study focuses on speaking, an area that is often neglected by
teachers for various reasons. In many Chinese Language classrooms, which are
teacher-centered by tradition, students have minimal opportunities to actively
participate in the negotiation of meaning during lesson. To develop students to
become independent learners of speaking in Chinese Language, a metacognitive
framework developed by Goh and Zhang (2002) was adopted in this study. Twenty-five
Secondary Two Express stream Chinese Language students, aged 13 to 14,
participated in this eight weeks study. Audioblogs was used as the mediating
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tool through which the students
interacted as they developed their metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive
awareness. Through the use of scaffolding questions, the students carried out self-appraisals to evaluate and monitor their oral performances and planned for their
future speaking tasks. The students were also tasked to provide comments for peers' oral performances. Seven usable sets of data were analysed and based on inferential
statistics, the treatment may have led the students to improve significantly in their
pretest-posttest oral performance scores. Through peer commenting and self-appraisal
activities in the audioblogs, the students developed greater metacognitive
knowledge and metacognitive awareness.

and here's the thesis in PDF format. you may need to grab acrobat reader 8 or above to read the content.

and last but not least, i would like to thank the following friends once again, as without their help and encouragement, this research would not have been possible:
Dr Tan Seng Chee (my sup), Dr Christine Goh C.M., Mr. Lim Sing Gee, Mdm. Tan Hiok Keng, Mdm. Ho Fui Ling, Ms. Hoe Joe Hwee and Mr. Amos Goh Yoong Shin, Mr. Darren Anthonio Marino Nonis, Mr. John Ow Eu Gene, Ms. Jeanne Marie Ho Pau Yuen and Dr. Chua Guat Kheng. and last but not least yh2, yh3 and yh4 :)

today marks the last day of my first semester in fudan and this is my final installment for the series of (feels like never-ending) examinable essays:

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(in English): A sociolinguistics study of youths and Chinese language in Singapore

Synopsis:
This paper presents a sociolinguistics study conducted with 56 youths who have studied Chinese Language (CL) during their secondary/junior college days in Singapore and have since left and 'graduated' from the CL classroom. Two primary research questions drove this study:

1. Is there any change in the youths' proficiency level of CL after leaving the CL classroom?
2. How are the youths using CL after graduating from secondary schools/junior colleges?

Three secondary research questions were explored to provide input to the two pri qns.
Data collection was conducted through the administering of an online survey.

Keywords: singapore, chinese language, education, survey, youth, sociolinguistics

Acknowledgement:
A BIG THANK YOU to all my students and friends and students' friends who have contributed by completing the online survey, without which this study would not have been possible. And since it's still ????of the Chinese New Year, may I wish one and all "???????????/??????????"
And here's it, may I present ... (the free Acrobat Reader is needed to view the reports)
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6. and FOUR other essays (for record purpose; meaningless ones meant for self-consumption)

and here we go again ... semester 2 here i/we come ... "Live Long & Prosper"

alas, this is the 2nd last installament of my (feels like neverending) series of examinable assignments this semester.

it's entitled ??????????????, and the english title would read "Exploring the Use of Interactive Whiteboard for Teaching and Learning of Chinese Characters"

and to make this assignment INTERESTING, i have also put together a video demonstration on how the IWB lessons can be carried out. the voice/volume of the recording's not too good coz my TC1100's mic is really that lousy. choose among [Online viewing of streamed video] or [download to desktop for offline viewing, abt 20MB]

one last one to go ... and there's only less than 4 days to go ... add oil add oil ...

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chanced upon Prof Wang, William Shi-Yuan ???????'s home page in the CUHK server. and in this 1-page long home page, he has shared 38 of his publications in PDF format for download by netizens who are interested in his research work.

if only more researchers/professors are like prof wang, guess the life of students/researchers/teachers/readers would be much easier alike. until the day ... ...

finally got this completed. the topic i have chosen this time round is
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a BiG "THANK YOU" goes to all my students (and their friends too) who have helped to provide the data for analysis.

on to my next examinable assignment ... ... *life of a student*

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