good site to practice pronunciation

this site offers the most difficult phonemes to pronounce :)
that's what I really need


http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/

What type of learner am I?

Recently I take the course which is conducted to help students develop their autonomy and it's never difficult to say this course is quite useful. One of the most valuable experiences is that I came to know what type of learner I am. Of course to judge someone(or even myself) is not such a easy thing. That's why I can tell just one thing.

In terms of orientation, there are many of them; visual, audio, and kinesthetic and so on.
But I think one's learning orientation can be change easily depending on particular situation.
So I just wanna tell you I'm a lonely boy! What that means?

I usually do work by myself. Assignments, projects, presentations, and everything. I never enjoy working with any other people. I think even the outcome of any tasks is better when I do by myself than when doing with others.

my reading strategy

I tried to check my reading strategies through the checklikst given in the clss.
Since the page did not provide the result of the test, I just marked the checkbox and counted by myself.
Only a finding is the number of checked list is greatest in "During reading strategy".
and... nothing! That's all!





http://englishnet.or.kr/class/L2Reading/Reading_Strategy_Checklist.htm

Plan your days!

The topic of journal for this week is the plan of mine. Prof. Kim required us to explicit our 10-year-after career goal. To be honest, It's not easy question for me cause that question is the reason why I have beeen through these tough days. I just mention here two options.
1. to be a teacher?
2. to get another job.
The latter doesn't limit the range of variables while the former asks me to be a teacher.

10-year-study plan

I worked with this "plan" as part of an assignment and the final outcome of course came out !
But as you know, it's written in Korean. :)
So I just posted summary of that. In the "macroplan" part which is the 10-year-after goal, I set up 3 goals.
1. Bookworm
2. Be stylish!
3. Do actively!

Treasure Hunt!

start from the website below.
http://www.vladimirashkenazy.com/


find the treasure for three questions!

1. How many composers has he played so far, as a conductor?
25 composers

2. In autumn 2005, who did he take the Europe tour with?
NHK Symphony Orchestra

3. Where did he played Rachmaninov in 2002?
the Lincoln Center, New York.

The process of reading: three levels of description (Adapted from Lunzer et al. (1979))

Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
Decoding print	Identifying letters, words, phrases	Scanning, fixating, anticipating, categorizing, testing, matching, verifying
Making sense	Assigning meaning to phrases and sentences	Anticipating syntactic and semantic categories, matching, verifying
Questioning	Noting discrepancies between different statements or between what is read and what is known	Retrieving material from long-term memory, comparing, inferring

Gordon's (1982) three sets of competencies

Reading Skills development
Names of Letters Introduce words Consonants Vowels Sight words Blends Word division Consonant diagraphs	Vowel Diagraphs Silent letters Plurals Compound words Context clues Contractions Rhyming words Hard and soft ‘c’ and ‘g’	Root words Prefix and suffix Synonyms Antonyms Homonyms Multiple meaning Pronunciation key Word definitions
Reading comprehension development
Categorizing Sequencing Follow directions Read for facts Retell story Main idea Key words	Summarize Predict outcomes Recognize emotions Make inferences Reliability of source Compare and contrast Make judgments	Figurative language Literary forms Evaluate characters Evaluate settings Factual conclusions Fact, fiction, and opinion
Reading research and study skills
Alphabetize Table of contents Dictionary skills Encyclopedia	Classify books Information from various sources Use of glossary	Atlases, maps, graphs Cross-referencing Use of index

The reading skills which I don't use

I realized that I've used only a few skills when I read any kind of text.

study goal of this year

Since I'm not so greedy person I've set just two plans for this year.
1. getting "computer utilizing ability" certificate
2. studying English harder.

that's so simple huh? ;)

miscellaneous collection for Romero

about author: Dagoberto Gilb
http://alkek.library.txstate.edu/swwc/archives/writers/gilb.html

interview with Gilb
http://www.pitt.edu/~nidus/archives/fall2002/gilb.html

the book which has something to do with the novel
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:78081

a kind of review from someone's blog
http://thexenofiles.blogspot.com/2007/01/early-daysgood-damn-im-preachy.html

information about El Paso
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paso%2C_Texas

1 mile = 1.609344km

location of El Paso
http://maps.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTExNmIycG51BF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEc2VjA2ZwLWJ1dHRvbgRzbGsDbGluaw--#mvt=m&lat=31.762376&lon=-106.476851&mag=11&q1=El%20Paso%2C%20TX%2C%20United%20States

about the name of "Romero"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romero

language skills

(in language teaching) the mode or mannaer in which language is used. Listening, speaking, reading, and writing are generally called the four language skills. Sometimes speaking and writing are called the active/productive skills and reading and listening, the passive/receptive skills. Often the skills are divided into subskills, such as discriminating sounds in connected speech, or understanding relations within a sentence.

Jack C. Richards, Richard Schmidt., Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics, p.293