Encountering problems...

This was the first class with Mr. Omid, at first I myself encountered some problem to understand one word that he said at that time (which later I found out that few of my coursemates also have the same problem – trying to understand one word that he uttered). The word was “thesis”! So, basically on the first day of our meeting, we learned what thesis statement is. Many of us confuse on the term of thesis statements with the topic sentence. Mr. Omid had explained the differences between those two terms. In giving us to the better understanding, he gave quite a lot of examples of the best thesis statements which did at least make me understand what thesis statement is. So, basically, it is something that becomes the umbrella issue of the story which involves arguments and opinion on certain issues raised. Hmm…now it gives me the ideas on what and how am I going to do for my position paper ~

The first unexpected class

Today was the first class of EDU 3234 “Readings and Project Work for English Teaching Literature in ESL Contexts” lectured by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Malachi Edwin Vethamani. Basically for the first lecture of this subject, I didn’t expect many things. Anyhow, to my surprised, we were given the assignments of the whole semester! Wow, I was tremendously astounded. He actually gave concise explanation of this subject for the entire semester. I was quite happy to know that for this course, there will be no mid-semester exam and final exam, replaced by two assignments that carry major marks for this subject which are writing the position paper and project paper.

Not forgetting, the online assignment (writing blogs) does contribute 20% of the total marks. Well, apart from reading, I guess a lot of writing need to be done. Moreover, there will be an individual presentation of the position paper before its submission. Hurm…integration of three language skills; speaking, reading and writing. That’s grand! Apart, Dr. Edwin had assigned supervisors for our project work where I’ll be under Dr. Noreen’s supervision =). Dr. Edwin then introduced us to a PhD student, Mr Omid where he’ll be tutoring us for our “amali”. It was a funny thing happen when Dr. Edwin unintentionally called Mr. Omid as Ovid as in a title of a text, Ovid Metamorphosis. So, what else can we do? We were laughing out loud. Terrible, aren’t we? =D