(warning: harini punya post dalam bahasa rojak dan dalam format santai~)
Hari ni, seperti yang dijanjikan (eh, bila masa janji pulak), aku nak berkongsi cerita pengalaman pahit manis suka duka ketawa bersama menangis bersama ku bersumpah harap kita mati pun bersama (eh jap, tu lagu lol) setelah aku sambung belajar ke peringkat ijazah pula. Haaa~~
Seperti yang korang semua maklum, cita-cita, impian dan harapan aku nak masuk degree TESL UiTM terkandas dan tak tercapai. Namun begitu, Alhamdulillah bersyukur ke hadrat Ilahi dapat juga aku sambung belajar ke peringkat ijazah. Walaupun aku tak dapat apa yang aku nak, tapi apa yang aku dapat masih dalam bidang Bahasa Inggeris, sikit pun tak melencong jauh.
Alhamdulillah setakat ni masih lagi bernafas di muka bumi ini. Umur pun dah menjejak 20 tahun. Ya, kali ini aku menulis dalam bahasa Melayu pula. Niat di hati dah lama nak sambung menulis kat blog ni, tapi banyak sangat distractions sampai tak sempat nak taip apa-apa. Adalah sekali dua tu jenguk-jenguk blog ni, melayan komen-komen pembaca sekalian. Alhamdulillah, banyak soalan bernas diutarakan tentang program asasi TESL ni. Moga-moga ramai yang berminat untuk turut serta dalam program ni ya.
Post hari ni adalah berkenaan tentang di mana aku kini selepas menjalani pengajian asasi TESL setahun di UiTM Shah Alam (2014 - 2015).
Cita-cita aku selepas habis belajar asasi ialah nak sambung ke program ijazah sarjana muda TESL di UiTM Shah Alam juga. Jadi, aku mulalah merangka perancangan untuk merealisasikan impian tersebut (ceh... ayat!)
Buat pengetahuan semua, untuk melanjutkan pelajaran ke program Ijazah Sarjana Muda, adalah diwajibkan bagi semua mahasiswa untuk mendaftar kembali dalam sistem UPU sepertimana yang anda mungkin dah buat sebelum masuk ke program diploma atau asasi. Kaedahnya sama sahaja: kena isi maklumat peribadi dan tentukan serta susun pilihan-pilihan kursus dan universiti yang kita nak.
Misalnya kalau memang nak masuk Ijazah Sarjana Muda (ISM) Pengajaran Bahasa Inggeris sebagai Bahasa Kedua (TESL) UiTM, letaklah di pilihan pertama.
Namun, adalah dinasihatkan untuk tidak meletakkan harapan anda 100% kepada pilihan pertama sahaja. Bukan apa, takut nanti kecewa kalau-kalau kuota nak masuk kursus tu penuh atau kita tak layak dapat kursus tu. Jadi, susunlah pilihan-pilihan yang berkaitan dengan bidang yang kita nak tu. Kalau nak isi UPU ni mestilah kena ada nombor pin UPU (boleh dibeli di kaunter BSN).
Contohnya, macam ni. Ni susunan pilihan-pilihan aku masa kemaskini pertama UPU.
Aku tak ubah pun masa kemaskini kedua. Hihihihi
*Gambar ni kecil, nak tengok besar sikit, klik lah! XD*
UPU untuk ke peringkat ijazah ni boleh diisi pada bulan Januari hingga April setiap tahun. Kemudian, dia akan buka semula untuk sesi kemaskini kedua, akan dimaklumkan waktunya. Pengambilan ijazah sarjana muda biasanya akan berlaku pada bulan September setiap tahun. Waktu kemaskini kedua UPU nanti, baru boleh masukkan keputusan asasi/matrikulasi/STPM kita nanti.
*Kalau nak apply kos ijazah kat UM kena isi dekat website dorang, not through UPU. This is a new initiative they started last year, so kalau nak, you guys can go here: https://www.um.edu.my/enroll-now. For more info, go to their main website: http://um.edu.my
Jadi, apa lagi kita nak kena buat lepas isi borang online UPU?
Untuk mereka yang berminat untuk ke ISM TESL UiTM, misalnya, kenalah menepati syarat-syarat kelayakan seperti berikut:
STPM dengan 3 principal pass / lulus separa termasuk Kertas Am atau Pengajian Am dan lulus dalam satu mata pelajaran lain
ATAU
Diploma / sijil IPG dengan 5 tahun pengalaman mengajar bahasa Inggeris atau 7 tahun pengalaman mengajar
ATAU
Diploma UiTM / institusi lain yang diiktiraf dengan PNGK (CGPA) minimum atau 2.50
ATAU
Sijil pra-ijazah (asasi) TESL dari UiTM
ATAU
Sijil matrikulasi KPM dengan CGPA sekurang-kurangnya 3.00
DAN
MUET (minimum band 4 / 5)
DAN
Lulus ujian bertulis MEdSI dan temuduga
MUET (Malaysian University English Test) ialah satu bentuk ujian yang dikendalikan oleh Majlis Peperiksaan Malaysia (MPM), menguji tahap kefasihan mereka berbahasa Inggeris (kemahiran dalam membaca, menulis, mendengar dan bercakap). MUET ni biasanya akan dibuat pada bulan Mac dan November setiap tahun, jadi bagi mereka yang sedang berada dalam program asasi atau matrik mungkin sudah melakukannya sewaktu semester 1 (bulan Nov) jadi keputusannya sudah boleh didapati selewat-lewatnya sebelum Mac.
Of course, kalau korang rasa macam tak berapa sedap hati dengan prestasi korang masa ujian November, boleh je kalau nak ambil semula ujian tu pada bulan Mac. Tapi kena daftar lagi sekali lah sebagai calon persendirian dan bayar RM100. Optional kalau nak ambil semula. Kalau ikut pengalaman, ada je kawan-kawan yang buat macam tu, tapi dorang tak pergi pun sebab dah dapat keputusan bulan November dan terima je keputusan tu. So, apa jadi dengan MUET dorang yang dah daftar untuk bulan Mac? Akan dapat juga keputusan tapi semuanya dia tulis NIL instead of markah. Takde masalah pun untuk tu. Consider MUET as your own responsibility.
Contoh jadual tempat dan masa ujian MUET yang akan diberi kepada calon dalam bentuk PDF
Contoh transkrip keputusan yang akan dipos terus ke rumah. Boleh juga semak keputusan online.
Alhamdulillah dapat juga band 5.
MEdSI pula (Malaysia Educators Selection Inventory) ialah satu bentuk ujian yang dikendalikan juga oleh Majlis Peperiksaan Malaysia dengan kerjasama Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris. Ujian MEdSI ni lebih kurang macam ujian personaliti, dalam bentuk 300 soalan dengan pilihan jawapan 1-5 (bergantung kepada soalan), untuk menentukan seseorang calon itu layak menjadi warga pendidik. Ujian MEdSI ni biasanya untuk mereka yang memang berniat nak sambung ijazah sarjana muda pendidikan sahaja.
Dan ianya hanyalah dalam bentuk kuiz sahaja secara online berpusat. Maksudnya, anda akan diberi pusat ujian dan akan melakukan ujian menggunakan komputer sahaja
Contoh slip ujian MEdSI untuk lokasi dan masa ujian
Perlu ambil perhatian yang keputusan untuk ujian MEdSI ini TIDAK AKAN DIKELUARKAN KEPADA CALON. Satu-satunya cara untuk kita tahu sama ada kita lulus atau tidak ujian ini adalah sama ada kita dapat panggilan temuduga ke program ijazah yang kita mohon dalam UPU sebelum ni. Kalau dapat, maksudnya luluslah. Kalau tak dapat panggilan temuduga, bermakna tiada rezekilah untuk kita sambung ke ijazah yang kita hendak.
Ujian MEdSI ini juga hanya boleh diambil sekali seumur hidup. Jadi sebolehnya buatlah dengan betul ya. All the best to you!
Apa nak dibuat kan. Mungkin bukan rezeki aku ke ISM TESL UiTM. Tapi Alhamdulillah, dapatlah juga sambung ke ijazah sarjana muda bahasa Inggeris juga. Taklah jauh sangat dari bidang bahasa Inggeris, meskipun bukan bidang pendidikan.
Jadi di manakah aku sekarang kalau bukan ke ISM TESL UiTM? Haaaa itu untuk cerita akan datang ya. Itu sahaja post untuk harini. Alhamdulillah tercapai jua hasrat nak berkongsi pengalaman ni.
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Nak info lagi tentang kelayakan ke Ijazah Sarjana Muda Pengajaran Bahasa Inggeris sebagai Bahasa Kedua di UiTM boleh klik mana-mana link berikut:
Of course, you can choose anywhere else other than UiTM. These are some alternatives if you still want to be in UiTM. Choose wisely, okay? :)
"Sememangnya kita manusia hanya mampu merancang, tetapi hakikatnya Tuhan sahaja sebaik-baik perancang dan Maha Mengetahui segalanya. Pasti ada perancangan yang lebih hebat untuk kita di lain hari."
Assalamualaikum. :)
P/S: Jangan panik kalau masa dapat keputusan UPU tu, tak dapat apa yang kita nak. Kalau kita betul-betul nak masuk kos yang kita nak, tapi tak dapat, cuba mohon rayuan pula. Kalau tak dapat dan memang dah tekad nak juga, kenalah tunggu pengambilan September tahun hadapan (kecuali yang nak masuk UiTM, boleh mohon untuk pengambilan Mac). Tapi kalau boleh terima pilihan selain pilihan pertama tu, pergi jelah. Tepuk dada tanya selera ye semua! :)
Yes, I do realize that everyone hate vertical videos. But yeah, this is the only video I got for my speech. Credits to Aidan too, he did tried to record it horizontally at first, but it's either I started my speech too fast or he's just not in the mood for a perfect normal horizontally shot video.... this was it.
Jokes aside, this is my 4th speech I had done for my Public Speaking subject. This subject, as its name would suggest, requires us BEN students to deliver different kinds of speech, namely demonstrative, informative, persuasive (this one), opinion and one final persuasive speech. All of this had to be done in about 4-5 minutes. And yes, I exceeded the time limit for this one. But I do hope you would enjoy it or gain something out of it.
Lastly, I am really really truly sorry for the insufficient number of posts lately. I've been too busy and occupied (or just lazy) to post much things here since I'm now in my first semester in UniSZA which is a long long way from home. I will promise to you that I'll update this blog about my experience here and till then, see you when I see you. :)
Hello there, readers. I'm pretty sure it has been a while since I posted something here. And I've been wanting to do so, but I've been also busy helping my mom. Y'know, just to fill up all the times I have right now until September.
But, helping my mom is not the only thing I'm doing right now. Last week, I finally (sebab suka sangat procrastinate, lulz) submitted my resume and letter to apply the 'Guru Sandaran/Guru Ganti/Guru Sementara' position to the district education office (PPD). Unfortunately, once I have submitted it to the clerk over the counter, he said that the 'Guru Sandaran' position is no longer available, and the other positions are for now being halted due to limited expense provided by the government to pay those teachers. Nevertheless, he took my documents and said that there's probably a slight chance that I may become one, if there is 'rezeki'. Well, I hope so. My friends have become a teacher in a secondary school, teaching kids about English. The need to teaching makes me really want that job, and I want it fast before September comes.
Let's just hope and pray for there will be a miracle....
Well, coming back to the topic, I cannot stop uttering the word Alhamdulillah (all praises to God) once I have gotten my results for my last semester in Asasi TESL. Truthfully, I never felt worried or put up any hopes or expectations on it, considerably that I thought I did my best. The only thing I'm worried about was I probably won't get my results because I haven't paid my college fees for this semester. ^^"
All in all, around 12.30 am, Friday the 15th, I finally got my e-mail from the university with the results. The least thing I could do is to hope that I broke my own record from last semester (3.61).
Alhamdulillah..... syukur,... blessed be God Almighty!
I passed! 3.65 for my GPA. Thank heavens for everything! Then I eyed through the subjects - I got B+ for Grammar, and B for Literature - the only odd ones from the whole. I supposed I deserved that B considering I didn't submit my reflective essay on Flowers for Algernon. Why? Because that task was given the day before our final dinner. Only 24 hours before the big night! Well, I did informed my classmates about it, and they might have followed the order and did the task, but I didn't. ^^"
(So much of a class rep, huh?)
For most of you do not know, in UiTM (and maybe in some other universities as well), once you got 3.5 and above for your GPA (Grade Point Average), you are more than qualified to be in the Dean's List (DL). You can also observe the score chart on the bottom right of the picture.
This checks out another requirement for my admission to B.Ed TESL in UiTM. Next stop, MEdSi test and interview (which may happen next week). Wish me all the best! ^^
Hello there, dear readers. Let us continue from the previous post about phonemic letters.
Last time, we learnt about vowels and diphthongs. In this post, we are going to learn about consonants. Phonemic consonants are a bit but not much different from the Roman consonants, with addition of a few letters that produce unique sounds such as the sounds produced by letter 'c' in the word 'chariot', the letters 'th' in 'this' and 'that', and also the letter 's' in 'pleasure'.
Phonemic consonants are divided into two types: voiced and voiceless consonants.
Voiced consonants
Voiceless consonants
/b/ pronounced as 'b' as in 'bird'
/p/ pronounced as 'p' as in 'pear'
/d/ pronounced as 'd' as in 'dog'
/t/ pronounced as 't' as in 'table'
/v/ pronounced as 'v' as in 'volcano'
/f/ pronounced as 'f' as in 'fish'
/ð/ pronounced as voiced 'th' as in 'mother'
/θ/ pronounced as voiceless 'th' as in 'thirteen'
/g/ pronounced as 'g' as in 'girl'
/k/ pronounced as 'k' as in 'key'
/z/ pronounced as 'z' as in 'zebra'
/s/ pronounced as 's' as in 'sofa'
/ʒ/ pronounced as 'zh' as in 'television'
/ʃ/ pronounced as 'sh' as in 'sheep'
/dʒ/ pronounced as 'j' as in 'jar'
/tʃ/ pronounced as 'ch' as in 'chair'
Also included in the voiced list are these consonants:
/w/ pronounced as 'w' as in 'web'
/j/ pronounced as 'y' as in 'yacht'
/r/ pronounced as 'r' as in 'rose'
/l/ pronounced as 'l' as in 'leaf'
/m/ pronounced as 'm' as in 'monkey'
/n/ pronounced as 'n' as in 'nine'
/ŋ/ pronounced as 'ng' as in 'ring'
The voiced and voiceless pairs (shown in the table) is pronounced at the same place in the mouth.
/g/ and /k/ are pronounced with the tip of the tongue touching the back of our mouth
/d/ and /t/ are pronounced with the tip of the tongue touching the back of our upper front teeth
/p/ and /b/ are pronounced with our lips closed together
/f/ and /v/ are pronounced with our bottom lips touching the upper front teeth
/s/ and /z/ are pronounced by opening a small gap between our front teeth and releasing some air
/θ/ and /ð/ are pronounced by slightly biting the tip of our tongue
To determine if a consonant is either voiced or voiceless, try pronouncing the sound of the letter by its own. If your mouth vibrates, the consonant is voiced. If your mouth does not vibrate, the consonant is voiceless.
Some consonants can be used to transcribe different Roman letters, such as:
/k/ can be used to transcribe words that start with letters 'k' (kill) or 'c' (cake)
/s/ can be used to transcribe words that start with/have letters 's' (sin) or 'c' (city)
/z/ can be used to transcribe words that start with/have/ends with letters 'z' (zoo), 's' (easy) 'x' (example) or 'se' (wise)
/f/ can be used to transcribe words that start with/have/ends with letters 'f' (flower), 'gh' (laugh) or 'ph' (phobia)
/ʃ/ can be used to transcribe words that start with/have letters 'sh' (shampoo), 'ch' (champagne), 'c' (special), 'tio' (information) or 'cia' (commercial)
/tʃ/ can be used to transcribe words that have letters 'ch' (church), 't' (furniture), or 'tio' (question)
/ʒ/ can be used to transcribe words that start with 's' (pleasure) or 'g' (garage)
/dʒ/ can be used to transcribe words that start with 'j' (jar), 'g' (general) or 'dge' (judge)
/w/ can be used to transcribe words that start with 'w' (war) or 'wh' (white)
/n/ can be used to transcribe words that start with 'n' (now) or 'kn' (knife)
/ŋ/ can be used to transcribe words that have/ends with letters 'ng' (bring) or 'nk' (bank)
/m/ can be used to transcribe words that ends with 'm' (calm), 'me' (come) or 'mb' (climb)
Students often get confused between the sound /j/ and the letter 'j'. /j/ produced the sound for letter 'y' not 'j'. The sound for letter 'j' is /dʒ/.
Students may also transcribe words like 'cute', 'mute', 'tune' and 'view' as /kɪʊt/,/mɪʊt/,/tɪʊn/ and /vɪʊ/. These are considered as wrong transcriptions, as there is no diphthong letter of /ɪʊ/.
The right way to transcribe those words are by using the combination of /j/ and /u:/ sounds (/ju:/). Therefore, the right transcriptions are /kju:t/,/mju:t/,/tju:n/ and /vju:/.
By now, you have already learnt all the parts of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Here is the complete table of all the alphabets.
/ʊ/
/u:/
/b/
/p/
/ɒ/
/ɔ:/
/d/
/t/
/ɪ/
/i:/
/v/
/f/
/ə/
/ɜ:/
/ð/
/θ/
/ʌ/
/a:/
/g/
/k/
/e/
/æ/
/z/
/s/
/ʒ/
/ʃ/
/ɪe/
/eɪ/
/dʒ/
/tʃ/
/aɪ/
/ɔɪ/
/m/
/n/
/ʊə/
/əʊ/
/w/
/j/
/aʊ/
/ŋ/
/r/
/l/
*Blue columns: short vowels
*Red column: long vowels
*Orange columns: diphthongs
*Green columns: consonants
*Light green: voiced consonants
*Dark green: voiceless consonants
Now, you are ready to do your own transcription, which we will discuss in the next post, coming soon! Until then. :)
