It's a never ending journey..... For Me!!!

I’ve submitted my research paper today… Such a relief! Phew… After 14 weeks of lectures and along come the assignments and everything... I still feel that it’s a never ending journey for me now. However, I have realized that blogging actually give me more freedom in me expresses myself. This is a space with no barriers that I could pour everything out…!! Hope, in my teaching in the future, I can introduce to my students to use blog as a form of them to practice their writing skills. That would be interesting. Of course, some motivation to them would do a better idea for them to work on. Also, writing of position paper and research paper has actually helped me in working on the literary text critically and at connotative level. The requirement of this subject EDU 3234 is a challenging task. However, in doing this will in a way give us the idea on how to write a research paper when furthering our studies. A lot of things need to be learnt… So whatever it takes, I need to go on and overcome it!! I simply put it this way….An ongoing process with everlasting knowledge…! Thank you…!

Speech...

Today, the speech by Martin Luther King. Jr. really powerful and inspiring. I read it before but have not got the chance to really analyze the text. The uses of rhetoric in his speech brought a kind of 'realization' to me because one thing, I do like to read about politics and the issue like discrimination, equality and sacrifice interest me to read more of his works. In Malaysia, there are not much of speeches being produced by our prominent icons that can be use in analyzing in the classroom. Although the speech is in a form of writing product, this can also be used in speaking lesson because teacher can actually adapt this speech to be analyzed in the English Literature classroom in terms of the sentences structures, theme, personality traits and imageries. Also, it is a good example of using authentic text in helping students to get the idea of the issues more clearly. See, just by using a speech, I can actually develop a teaching lesson on Literature.... Wonderful... Isn't it???