Category Archives: Lesson Notes

July 21, 2009
Introduction to the Reading Process

Expressly written in today’s lecture. Lecturer: Marineke Goodwin. I had loads of fun in this lecture. She came prepared with lots of materials!
History of Language Learning in New Zealand

purpose of literacy before the age of decoding
literacy brought from England

Four discernible ages of reading theories = identified, and we´re entering the fifth. They´re the ages of [...]

March 17, 2009
Grammar and the Study of Literary Language

Prof. Rod Ellis talks about language exploits writers do in order to achieve itery effects in their manuscripts.

Code Effects – normal lang. used and manipulated in order to achieve literary effects -> 1) Marked and Unmarked, 2) Structural Ambiguity, 3) Grammatical Elision
Grammatical Patterning -exploitation of the units of grammar (e.g, subject, verb, objects, direct objects, [...]

July 25, 2008
COMPSCI 111 Lec. 3 – Software

Time: 1 -2pm (Friday)
Location: MLT1
Mira and Atie decided to play truant for the first time today, so here I am on my own in this class. Technically, Lyn and Fareha are with me, but well… Today’s topic for Compsci 111 lecture is.. urm… Software. Looking at the first slide, I was like “Hrm… Free [...]