People: Thank You, Robin Gibb!!! R.I.P.

Tribute to Robin Gibb

Robin Gibb
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Thank You Bee Gees, for bringing extraordinary songs to this world!

Number 5 / Johnny 5
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For creating romance in your magnificent falsetto songs!

For making my childhood filled with hope, decency and love!

For bringing disco music to this world!

You didn't start a joke, you started the whole world loving! You started my loving your songs even before I was born, when I was in my mother's womb!!!

Robin Gibbs, R.I.P.

Vocabulary:
falsetto -- (n)  [C] (plural falsettos) a form of singing or speaking by men using an extremely high voice
decency -- (n) [U] behaviour that is good, moral and acceptable in society


Resources:
Short Circuit (Johnny 5) - More Than a Woman @ YouTube
http://youtu.be/kOWYVT5xABA

bee gees - more than a woman @ YouTube
http://youtu.be/2ZCtgFmQvjQ

Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love ( Original ) HQ [ NO CONCERT / NO KARAOKE ] @YouTube
http://youtu.be/BBMriOspUvA

Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive [Version 1] (Video) @YouTube
http://youtu.be/I_izvAbhExY

Bee Gees - I Started A Joke and First Of May  @YouTube
http://youtu.be/0QTQdAKUZmA

Movie: Short Circuit @ Locky's English Playground
http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2011/03/movie-short-circuit.html

Song: How Deep Is Your Love -- Bee Gees @ Locky's English Playground
http://lockyep.blogspot.com/2012/02/song-how-deep-is-your-love-bee-gees.html

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/falsetto_1?q=falsetto+
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/decency?q=decency

Academic Research: Corpus-based Analysis of Whatsapp Group Chat

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Learner Corpus Mini-research: Corpus-based Analysis of Whatsapp Group Chat Law, Locky English, ESL, EFL, Corpus, Corpora, Multimodality, Internet, Smartphones, Grammar, Chat room, Group chat, Learning, Teaching, 2012-5-21 76 2012-7-11

Introduction:

In Hong Kong, adult learners of English rely heavily on face-to-face classroom instruction, which is the mainstream mode of learning. As the internet and computer technology advance, authentic resources have become highly accessible (Law, 2011) and corpora boom, data-driven learning (DDL) gradually proves to be a viable self-learning alternative to traditional one-to-many face-to-face spoon-feeding pedagogy. Computer-mediated communication has not only changed human behaviour (Law, 2011), but has gradually shifted learning paradigm. Through the use of online web-based corpora, learners are able to explore patterns, regularity and trends of any lexical items by inductive method through the internet. In this paper, a Whatsapp chat room chat log of 9 adult learners of English is analysed and three selected errors will be bombarded by corpus data to demonstrate the benefits and practicality of DDL. Towards the end of the paper, I will suggest a corpus-based pedagogy, discuss the limitations of this project and conclude by advocating DDL in cities with high mobile phone and internet penetration such as Hong Kong.

Opinions:
For those of you who would like to read academic papers written by me. Hope this will be useful for those of you researching in related areas as well.

Resources:
Learner Corpus Mini-research: Corpus-based Analysis of Whatsapp Group Chat @ Locky's English Playground
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9emHQBd5COmZW1EMEhwMUxyck0