Blog 4

11 January 2008 was the first time for tutorial session with Miss Siti Nur Baiti who is the demonstrator for this subject. I had met her before during last semester when she replaces Dr. Edwin’s class. When she came to class, she brought with her a booklet full of questions related to Oedipus Rex. After I got the booklet, I just looked at it and I didn’t know what to do even though it was obviously full of questions that required me to answer. It was not me who didn’t know what to do, there were some of my friend also just stair at the paper. The response that some of my friend and I gave was because of we didn’t know how to answer the question and what the question needed. All of this happens maybe because this was first time I saw that kind of question for drama. Before this, the question for drama was given an extract and we answer the question based on the extract. Luckily, Miss Siti Nur Baiti gave us guidance on how to answer the question and discuss with us how to find the answer from the text.

Blog 3

Learning how to teaching the language of drama is different if compare to teaching the language of short story. For short story, I don’t have to know about the history of short story. Just focus at the short story and writers. As for drama, I have to know a little bit about the background of the drama and theatre itself. Before this I always think that theatre only divided into two types which are modern theatre and older version of theatre. Now then I know that in “older version” of theatre there are a few types. There are Greek Theatre, Roman Theatre, Medieval Theatre and 20th century drama. Before this, I just consider all these as “older version” and “modern version” without knowing it has appropriate term. When Dr. Edwin taught about all these, I feel lucky because I actually can imagine and visualize how the theatre looks like during medieval theatre because I had watched the movie “Shakespeare In Love”. Setting in that movie really show how theatre looks like during medieval era and it make me have clear view about it when Dr. Edwin mention about it.

Blog 1

Literature? During my secondary school, that word was a nightmare to me. I started learning literature when I was in form four in 2002. It was a horrible experience for me at that time. This is because, I don’t really familiar yet with English words and suddenly I had to learn literature which using difficult words. Make thing worst, the first lesson was Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare. At first, I felt really terrify but after a few months, I was able to catch up. However, during first test, I got zero mark for literature. How embarrassing. After that, I tried hard to understand what I learnt in literature and made a lot of exercises. The effort that I put really worth it because finally I can answer literature’s question and I also didn’t get zero anymore. Now, as a TESLian the word literature is a complement to me. This is because being in this course makes me have to take variety of subjects related to literature. For example, during my first semester, I took Survey of prose, Malaysian Literature in English during second semester and Teaching the language of short story in third semester. For this semester, I meet with another subject related to literature which is Teaching the language of drama.

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