CURTAIN CLOSING FOR EDU 5277 LITERATURE IN ESL

I enjoyed very much posting my journals in this blog. Now my life is like a blog. This is the third time I am posting my journals. The first time I created my blog is during the drama course. I think this is the course where I first started posting. Now I am a master’s student and I really can’t imagine time is flying like lightning. After 4 years completing my undergraduate bachelors’, now I am in my first semester pursuing my postgraduate. When I came to know that we would be doing blogging, I was really happy and excited because this is the third time I’m doing blogging and it was really nice to refresh back my sweet memories of the past years. But only this time, I was being in introduced to forum which is very new and challenging to me because I get to talk and discuss topics with other friends. Also I get the chance to initiate a topic which to me is a good way of interacting and exchanging ideas. Apart from that, we were also being introduced to a mini research project where we have to key in data and do some analyzation. Also the installation of the SPSS 16 which I feel is a very easy way to key in data. In fact, in this course, I have been introduced to quite a number of new things and as usual, thank you Dr. Ed for bringing such great awareness to us. I have also learnt something new from this course where we get to read young adult literature texts. It was indeed a new experience for me because I seldom read young adult literature which I have this perception that it is only for school students and teens, but after several meetings for Dr. Ed, I realized that it is not only for teens, but anyone can read it. I felt like a ‘culture shock’ and I begin to think what I have been doing these years and not picking up a single YAL book. Only after the ‘Twilight’ book and movie being released, I managed to catch hold of the book and read it. In fact, it was a nice experience reading YAL book as it brings us back to school days as well teenage issues. Besides it has also helped me to learn how to think, understand and do judgement. As with the saying goes, do not judge a book by its cover, my own saying would be, do not judge a book by its category until you read it. Overall, I enjoyed this course a lot which has developed me to become a good reader as well a good teacher. Also I have learnt a lot in this course as well as meeting new friends. So Dr. Edwin, thank you very much for the knowledge which you poured on to us as well as encouraged me to pursue my masters. I will be doing my Ph.D after that and I hope you will guide and encourage me more to pursue my studies. May God bless you. Take care.