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Post 3: Literature-review-ACTIVITIES

To complete this course you need to write a brief literature review on the topic of your course paper. It should be based on the discussion of 3-4 articles you have collected for your course paper and contain 600-650 words. You should demonstrate your understanding of the topic area your course paper is devoted to and the connection between various sources you have chosen to review. You will be assessed on how thorough and detailed your literature review is and how well you have managed to find the connection b/w various resources you have selected for your work. In addition, the criteria common for the assessment of written works will be used as well. They include the mechanics of writing, vocabulary use and style. Here is a list of resources for you to get acquainted with how to write your literature review better and what to take into account: http://guides.library.yale.edu/content.php?pid=129904&sid=1114223 What you should do today then is choose one of the resources...
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Post_2: Database-of-Open-Access-Journals

Dear All, today you are going to get acquainted with an online collection of open access journals ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_journal ) in linguistics. Your task will be to do the following: 1. Choose one of the jourmals with open access from them directory at  http://doaj.org/ . 2. When in the directory, search for Linguistics and you will get about 30 000 hits. Look through the first couple of pages of hits and choose a journal that seems to be more interesting. In the thread provide its brief description, indicating its specific area of interest and giving some basic information about it. The purpose of doing it is to have a collection of different journals which you can use for your research. 3. Find an article connected with the topic of your course paper in the journal you have chosen and write its summary. Include a brief explanation of why you think this article can be useful. Add a couple of questions you have as the result of reading the a...
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Post-1_Website-evaluation

Are you sometimes overwhelmed with the amount of information on the internet? Do you feel it necessary to understand how reliable the information you are reading is? Do you think your students should be made aware of the internet safety and security? If you answered "yes" to these questions, then it would be useful for you to get acquainted with the criteria for web-site evaluation and then practise using them yourselves first and then teach your students how to stay safe and secure online. Have a look at the list of criteria for web-site evaluation created by M. Krauss and Anholt from the USA who specialise in teaching courses of ICT in the language classroom for Ts around the world. Then use them to evaluate the resources listed after these criteria: Answer the following questions "yes" or "no". If you have more than 9 "Yes" answers, you can use resource you have found or were recommended to use. OBJECTIVITY/ADVOCACY: Some articles are...
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