Monday 23 December 2013

Reflection on week 4 & 5 tutorial

For week 4 & 5 tutorial, we formed a group of 5 to discuss and present on an article. There were several articles given and we only need to present 1. Not knowing the difficulties of the articles, we chose an article which was by Andrew Littlejohn, in which it was the most difficult among all the articles given.

On our first meeting as a group, which was the same day we got the article, we decided on when and where will our next meeting be. Also, all of us in our group agreed that for our next meeting, we would at least finish reading up the article which did not went according to plan. This is because it was hard for us to understand the article. Andrew Littlejohn's article which is about analyzing material for evaluation was quite in-depth, thus we needed to read it several times to understand what it was all about.

So, after we read it several times and also discuss among ourselves what the article was about, we were able to understand it quite well. It was interesting to know how in-depth analyzing a material could be, by taking into consideration its framework which are "Publication" and "Design", and also the author stated about the 3 levels of analyzing a material.

Hence, Andrew Littlejohn's article really helped us, myself definitely, on what to consider when evaluating a material. The knowledge that I have gained will allow me to apply it later on when I am to evaluate a material myself, especially language learning material.