ENG517 Final Term Solved Papers Set 2

ENG517

ABSTRACT This comprehensive collection of notes is accurately crafted to empower students to excel academically, ensuring they achieve a minimum of 80% marks in their examinations. The content is organized with clarity and precision, focusing on key concepts, critical analyses, and practical applications tailored to the syllabus. These notes serve as a reliable resource for both thorough preparation and last-minute revision. Designed to inspire confidence and mastery, this guide is an essential tool for students striving for academic excellence.

Maha Malik Computer Assisted Language Learning

Q3. workload controlled protocols for student counseling

•  Set strict parameters for responding to emails and other online messages and make these clear to your students in both your syllabus and your class. For instance, make sure your students understand that although you will accept emails from them, you will not necessarily respond to each one immediately and that you may provide responses to a question in the classroom if you see it is one that has been repeatedly posed.
•  Specify which kinds of problems you will respond to: for example, personal problems, requests, or issues; or difficulties comprehending the subject matter. Steer clear altogether of administrative issues, such as dates for upcoming tests or questions about homework. Such information is either avail- able in the syllabus or more properly discussed in an online or on-the- ground discussion session.
•  Insist that you will not respond to any emails whose chief issue isn’t clearly identified in the subject line of the communication.

Q. What is action research?

Action Research asks the question Is there a better way? and usually includes three stages: planning, acting and reflecting. In planning, the classroom researcher tries to imagine a teaching/learning problem and think of ways in which intervention might solve it. Consultation is encouraged, both with teaching colleagues and the learners or subjects of the action. Although planning a timeline is encouraged, Action Researchers should also be open to adapting their plans and actions, depending on the feed-back and results they receive along the way.

Q. Book creator

Use Book Creator to make, publish, and share your own book, complete with texts, images, audios, and videos. With this application, teachers and students can create interactive stories, instructional manuals, research journals, and multimedia-assisted reports.

Q. Blackboard Vista

Blackboard Vista is an integrated set of educational tools for developing and delivering courses or course components over the WWW and is now used at universities and colleges all over the world. There are many advantages, the greatest being standardization. Students who learn Blackboard Vista in one course can transfer that learning to another course. The teacher can track students’ progress through and participation in the online material – including the number of minutes spent using the course materials. Online quizzes can be timed for release at a specific time for a specific duration then graded for quick student feedback.

Q. Hypertext

Hypertext refers to links among textual items, often indicated on a computer or website by key words set in underlined blue type, that, when highlighted by a pointer device (e.g. mouse, trackball, finger on a touch-sensitive screen) and selected or clicked, take the reader to the referent. These links are usually defined in terms of their activity and are referred to as hotlinks or hyperlinks or, increasingly commonly, simply links.

Q. Hypermedia

Hypermedia refers to similar links to those used in hypertext, but instead of simply linking text to text, hypermedia involves linking various media, such as sound, images, animation and/or video. For example, a word or picture might have a link to a sound file giving its pronunciation. A video of a language-learning opportunity, such as a shopping excursion, might be linked to an animation that shows the same exchanges simplified, omitting the distracting elements around the interactions between the shopper and the sales clerk. Or, an animation might focus on a related aspect, such as a review of the value of different denominations of money.

Q. Wonder polis

Kids are curious about everything, and Wonderopolis harnesses this innate characteristic with a kid-friendly, non-fiction reading website. Each article is created to answer a question and students can choose from a variety of categories, including technology, science and arts and culture. Students can also take quizzes to test their knowledge after reading, and refer to a vocabulary list when they come across a word they don’t know.

Q. Advantages of internet

The web expands the basic advantages of the computer dramatically, making it possible to give students the exposure to authentic language which is essential for the acquisition of native-like listening ability, either through access to materials or electronic contact with actual native speakers (NSs). Moreover, the multimedia capabilities of the web facilitate the creation and implementation of listening comprehension activities.

Q. Quicktionary

It is a pen-like device. It allows the reader to easily scan the word and get its definition and translation on its own LCD screen. Technology such as Enounce and Sound-Editor enable learners to adjust the speech rate of listening materials to assist their comprehension, and present spectrum of speech waves and visual depictions of mouth and tongue movement to ease the learning and refine pronunciation.

Q. Radio as listening Skills.

One of the most accessible ways a learner has of developing listening skills

•  Low-tech and radio broadcasts are continuous
•  Listening to the radio is not an activity that is often used in class time.