One trend I seem to be noticing in our time together online is that fewer and fewer people are using their headsets to speak. I can understand why...it seems there is less frustration with the technology if people don't try to speak. Esther's voice is almost always easily heard and understood, but many others are still having difficulties.
The most useful part of class last time was going through the exercises together. Although I had one of the exercises entirely wrong, it was good to hear the logic and reasoning behind the ideas of phonemes vs. allophones. I also appreciate Dr. Schmidt's understanding that we're novices in this whole area; it was nice to be graded for effort rather than correctness on the non-IPA transcription part of the assignment.
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Kurt, I agree with you that going through the excercises was helpful - although I'm still nervous about it. :-) I also appreciate Dr. Smidt's grading on effort, I found parts of the assignment difficult with all this new information to take in.
ReplyDeleteI aggree with both of you about grading. And as Jen stated it is a very intensive class.
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