My first experience of blog --- 博客
Hi! I’m Zhuo Li!
I just returned from China several days ago for winter vacation. Though I am not bothered by very obvious jet lag, I am overwhelmed by a totally different English-speaking world at the very beginning, because I didn’t speak English at all in the past whole month.
Yeah, I’m from China. This is my second semester at UF to study for my Ph.D. in ESOL. My major in my undergraduate study is English. After graduation in 2000, I worked in a company to deal with import and export bills. Thinking of some colleagues have difficulties in English, with another colleague majoring in English in our department, I voluntarily organized a group to help some with their English. Little by little, those colleagues being taught made obvious progress encouraged me a lot and also precipitated my desire to engage in teaching. Then, I went to Georgia Southern University (GSU) to study for my Master’s in English Education. Before graduating from GSU in 2004, I had gotten an offer from UF. In summer, I went back to China and got married with my husband. But then, I got problem in my visa application. So, I stayed in China to teach English in a junior college for one year. Fortunately, our department had my admission deferred one year. Finally, I got my visa last summer and began to my new life in Gainesville. I really appreciate UF offers me such a good opportunity to pursue my study.
I’m interested in Internet, ‘cause it’s a magic world. I can know what happen every day in China in browsing news; I can see my husband, parents and friends far away and hear their voices using MSN; I can learn a lot in my filed in web reading. While in GSU, I worked as a journal copy editor and was responsible to update the journal’s web. At that time, I used Dreamweaver and FrongPage to update the journal’s web. I also tried to make my own webpage, but it is a very simple one and I seldom spend time on it.
I choose this course because I believe Internet and other technologies are very useful in language teaching. Internet provides language learners very rich information. As a foreign language learner, I benefit a lot from that. As a future teacher, I want to explore more on how to use Internet, this very useful teaching resource in my future ESL class.
I’m very fascinated by our first assignment to create our own blogs. If it were not an assignment, I don’t know when I would get one for myself. “Blog” is also a hot point in China last year. It is transliterated as “博客”in Chinese. The first character means “broad or vast” and the second means “guests” in Chinese. To some degree, the translation well corresponds to its own meaning. A blog is public to other guests to view and comment.
In reading Blogging and RSS — The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators, I came to realize that the use of blog in education may be an interesting topic for my further research, especially for writing in language learning.
I just returned from China several days ago for winter vacation. Though I am not bothered by very obvious jet lag, I am overwhelmed by a totally different English-speaking world at the very beginning, because I didn’t speak English at all in the past whole month.
Yeah, I’m from China. This is my second semester at UF to study for my Ph.D. in ESOL. My major in my undergraduate study is English. After graduation in 2000, I worked in a company to deal with import and export bills. Thinking of some colleagues have difficulties in English, with another colleague majoring in English in our department, I voluntarily organized a group to help some with their English. Little by little, those colleagues being taught made obvious progress encouraged me a lot and also precipitated my desire to engage in teaching. Then, I went to Georgia Southern University (GSU) to study for my Master’s in English Education. Before graduating from GSU in 2004, I had gotten an offer from UF. In summer, I went back to China and got married with my husband. But then, I got problem in my visa application. So, I stayed in China to teach English in a junior college for one year. Fortunately, our department had my admission deferred one year. Finally, I got my visa last summer and began to my new life in Gainesville. I really appreciate UF offers me such a good opportunity to pursue my study.
I’m interested in Internet, ‘cause it’s a magic world. I can know what happen every day in China in browsing news; I can see my husband, parents and friends far away and hear their voices using MSN; I can learn a lot in my filed in web reading. While in GSU, I worked as a journal copy editor and was responsible to update the journal’s web. At that time, I used Dreamweaver and FrongPage to update the journal’s web. I also tried to make my own webpage, but it is a very simple one and I seldom spend time on it.
I choose this course because I believe Internet and other technologies are very useful in language teaching. Internet provides language learners very rich information. As a foreign language learner, I benefit a lot from that. As a future teacher, I want to explore more on how to use Internet, this very useful teaching resource in my future ESL class.
I’m very fascinated by our first assignment to create our own blogs. If it were not an assignment, I don’t know when I would get one for myself. “Blog” is also a hot point in China last year. It is transliterated as “博客”in Chinese. The first character means “broad or vast” and the second means “guests” in Chinese. To some degree, the translation well corresponds to its own meaning. A blog is public to other guests to view and comment.
In reading Blogging and RSS — The "What's It?" and "How To" of Powerful New Web Tools for Educators, I came to realize that the use of blog in education may be an interesting topic for my further research, especially for writing in language learning.
posted by Zhuo(Joel) Li at
6:59 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Zhou,
Welcome to Gainesville! How are you adjusting to your new life? Are there a lot of Asian students at UF?
I travelled in China in 1985 while I was an English teacher in Tokyo, Japan. I was able to see a lot of your country. Starting in Hong Kong, I took a boat to Shang Hai, then a train to Beijing, visited Tainjin, saw the ruins in Xian, and took a cruise on the Yanghtze River. At that time there were not many Western visitors so people were very curious to look at me. I hear that China has changed a great deal in the past twenty years. From what I understand there has been a great deal of development including commerce and technology.
What part of China did you grow up in? Is there any chance that you will post pictures of your home town on your blog? I would enjoy seeing them.
My friend, Professor Naranjo teaches ESOL at UF. I hope you have a chance to meet her. Also, I am taking a writing course with Professor Danling Fu who is from China.
Good luck with everything!
Patricia Jacobs
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Patricia, at 10:26 AM
Hi, Patricia,
So glad to know you! Yeah, great changes have taken place in China since 1980s.Wow, at that time, I was still in elementary school. It seemed to be a long time ago. It's true that Chinese people would be very curious about "foreigners" then. Since there are more foreign visitors and the languge of English is more commonly used, I'm sure you would have new experience there.
I'm from Sichuan, the southwestern province which is very famous for spicy food.:-)I've been away from my hometown for many years. I left most of my photos at home, which were not digital ones then. Anyway, I'd like to get some photos to show you around my hometown.
Actually,I know Naranjo but probably she doesn't know me. I took one ESL class last semester designed by Dr. Naranjo. However, that big class was divided into two small ones instructed by Dr. Naranjo and another instructor. Though I didn't work with Dr. Naranjo, we used the coursepack designed by her. It's really good!And I also took one course with Dr. Fu, too.
You've visited several big cities in China. Indeed, my hometown is a "must-go" too! I'll post some photos later.
Because I stayed in Georgia for two years before, it is not so hard for me to adjust myself to the life in Gainesville. Yes, there are many Asian students and much more Chinese students than Georgia Southern University where I got my Master's.
Have a nice day!
Zhuo Li
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Zhuo(Joel) Li, at 9:05 PM
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