Thursday, October 8, 2009

Our first project - ELLCAFE

Sept 11, 2009 marked the birth of ellcafe. The idea came to me when I had to attend staff meeting which was held during class hours. It was Friday, Ramadhan the 21st. I was supposed to have four hour classes with my part 3 students: BMD3GB and ECD3KD from 8 am to 12 noon. Since it was compulsory to attend the meeting and at the same time it is my responsibility to utilise the hours given to me to educate my students. I was so blessed to have these students who are able to work independently. So I planned a project -ellcafe- for all BEL311 students, the current and the future. In order for them to fully utilise the learning hours without having me around, I divided them into groups and assigned them chapters learned in BEL311 under three components: READING, WRITING and GRAMMAR. To get the best in my students, I combined both groups BMD3GB and ECD3KD to collaborate in library research of all the chapters learned in this course. This is also a good practice for them as they did not waste their time and they learned more than what they used to learn in class. Here are the stages involved and the teams with the assignment of the chapters:



STAGE 1 LIBRARY RESEARCH (1st draft)

Team 1 (READING)
Leader: MOHAMAD AMIRULHAKIM B ABDULLAH
Assistant: NORHANI BINTI RAMLI
Members: MOHD ANUAR B MOHD SIDIK
NOOR AINUL SHAHERA BT KAMARUL ZAMAN

RESEARCH TOPICS:
Predicting
Scanning
Finding meaning from context

Inference



Team 2 (READING)
Leader: MOHD HASRI BIN ACHNI
Assistant: NUR AMARINA BINTI SUHAIMI
Members: MOHD IZAN ZHARIF BIN KAMARUDIN
NAJIHAH BINTI NASARUDIN

RESEARCH TOPICS:
Recognising an issue in an argument
Recognising views “for” and “against”
Topic sentences
Identifying main ideas
Supporting details



Team 3 (READING)
Leader: MUHAMAD HAFIZ BIN ZAKARIA
Assistant: SURIYANA BINTI YA
Members: MUHAMMAD IZZAT B NOOR EZZUDDIN
YUSZARINA BINTI MOHD YUSOF

RESEARCH TOPICS:
Critical reading
Recognizing definitions
Distinguishing facts and opinions
Identifying bias and intention



Team 4 (WRITING)
Leader: MOHD HAIRULIZWAN BIN MOHD NOR
Assistant: NURLIYANA BINTI JAMIL
Members: MOHD SHAFIQ B MUSTAPA
ANITH SYAZWANI BINTI ABDUL RAHIM

RESEARCH TOPICS:
Developing a paragraph from topic sentence
Writing an expository/explanation essay
Thesis statement
Topic sentence



Team 5 (WRITING)
Leader: KAMALBASYAH BIN MOHD HAMRAN
Assistant: AISYAH AIMAH BINTI ZAKARIA
Members: MUHAMMAD AKMAL HAKIM BIN ZAINAL AZMAN
LAYLATUL NAZEERA BINTI NAZERI

RESEARCH TOPICS:
Preparing an outline
Writing an argumentative essay
Summarising
Paraphrasing



Team 6 (WRITING)
Leader: MOHAMAD HAFIZ BIN IBRAHIM
Assistant: AZLIYATUN NAILAH BINTI AZMAN
Members: NIK ABDUL MUIZ B NIK ROMAINOR
NUR NABILA BINTI SHEIKH MUHAMMAD NURMAN

RESEARCH TOPICS:
Writing a discussive essay
Synthesising
Documenting
Editing skills
In-text citation/References



Team 7 (GRAMMAR)
Leader: MIOR AHMAD RIDZUAN B MIOR MOHAMED TAHIR
Assistant: SHAHIRAH BINTI NADZRI
Members: MUHAMMAD HAMDAN B YAACOB
NADIATUL ZAHRAH BINTI MOHD HASSAN

RESEARCH TOPICS:
Parts of Speech (Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Articles, Determiners,
Conjunctions, Prepositions)



Team 8 (GRAMMAR)
Leader: MUHAMMAD AFIQ BIN M ASHHURI
Assistant: AKMALINA BT AB RAHMAN
Members: MAZMIRA BT MOHAMED
MUHAMMAD HAFIZ BIN AMIRRUDIN

RESEARCH TOPICS:
Simple Tenses (Present, Past, Future)



Team 9 (GRAMMAR)
Leader: WAN AZRUL FAREEZUAN BIN WAN AZHAR
Assistant: NOOR ATIQA SHAHRINA BTE JOHAN SHAH
Members: AFZAN BINTI ZAINI
NIK ABDUL AZIZ BIN NIK ABDULLAH ZAWAWI

RESEARCH TOPICS:
Continuous Tenses (Present, Past, Future)




Team 10 (GRAMMAR)
Leader: HILMI BIN AWALUDIN
Assistant: SITI NORATIKA AKHMAR BINTI MOHAMAD AZLI
Members: MUHAMAD HIJAN BIN MAMAT
MOHAMAD FAEEZUDDIN BIN AMRAN

RESEARCH TOPICS:
Perfect Tenses (Present, Past, Future)


Team 11 (GRAMMAR)
Leader: NUR AIZAT BIN SAMSUDIN
Assistant: NUR ZULAIHA BINTI ZULKHAIRI
Members: HANIE AFINA BINTI AWANG SATIP
WAN MUHAMAD HAFIZUDDIN B WAN AZLAN
MUHAMMAD HILMI B AB AZIZ

RESEARCH TOPICS:
Conditionals
Gerunds
Infinitives
Modality
Passive Voice
Reported Speech
Adjectival relative clauses


STAGE 2 EDITING (2nd draft)


All teams were involved.


STAGE 3 EDITING BY QUALITY CONTROL TEAMS (3rd draft)


QUALITY CONTROL TEAMS: to edit and compile the chapters according to components




COMPONENT: READING

Team Leader: MUHAMAD HAFIZ BIN ZAKARIA
Assistant: NORHANI BINTI RAMLI

Editors:
MOHAMAD AMIRULHAKIM B ABDULLAH
MOHD HASRI BIN ACHNI
NUR AMARINA BINTI SUHAIMI
SURIYANA BINTI YA

COMPONENT: WRITING

Team Leader: KAMALBASYAH BIN MOHD HAMRAN
Assistant: AZLIYATUN NAILAH BINTI AZMAN

Editors:
MOHD HAIRULIZWAN BIN MOHD NOR
NURLIYANA BINTI JAMIL
AISYAH AIMAH BINTI ZAKARIA
MOHAMAD HAFIZ BIN IBRAHIM

COMPONENT: GRAMMAR

Team Leader: WAN AZRUL FAREEZUAN BIN WAN AZHAR
Assistant: NUR ZULAIHA BINTI ZULKHAIRI

Editors:
MUHAMMAD HAMDAN B YAACOB
SHAHIRAH BINTI NADZRI
AKMALINA BT AB RAHMAN
MUHAMMAD AFIQ BIN M ASHHURI
NOOR ATIQA SHAHRINA BTE JOHAN SHAH
HILMI BIN AWALUDIN
SITI NORATIKA AKHMAR BINTI MOHAMAD AZLI
NUR AIZAT BIN SAMSUDIN



and kudos to these two efficient, reliable and responsible class reps who have edited, compiled and submitted the final draft:

WAN AZRUL FAREEZUAN BIN WAN AZHAR (BMD3GB)

KAMALBASYAH BIN MOHD HAMRAN (ECD3KD)

note: the photos of the pioneers of ellcafe can be seen on this blog