What I Learnt ???

Salam and Ahlan,

A couple days ago, 23-24 Jun I attended Seminar in Language And Communication organized by UDM. It is my annualy activity to attend and present my research findings. This seminar is national level. VC of UDM has come and officiated the ceremony. But this time, I was very lucky for having a chance to see and listen to a keynotes speakers. There are five speakers.

Day one, Prof. Asmah Hj Omar ( P.E ) and Prof. Richard Day presented their papers. Asmah gave very valuable tips in communication which she summurized into 2; Ethicet and Ethic. These 2 must be taken into consideration in communication.

Richard Day, from Hawaii has given a very simple way to teach reading. He came up with a question, I hardly to forget it. We read>>> by reading. As what I can understand, there is no way to become capable in reading, just one way, you must read!!!. Thanks Prof. Richard for this remark.

When day two comes, we have more 3 prominent academician. Prof Abdullah Hassan ( P.E ) emphesized on the importantness of Malay Language. I already knew his consistance struggle in language education, especially in Malay language. I learnt that a figure like him is very important to play a role in our society.

Prof. Khoo Kay Kim also one of the speakers today. Its unbelievable to hear something from him. I gained my belief how our people sidelined the history for current life. He said there was no " Divide and rule" in British Colonial history. Further more, he asserted Malays are not farmers, they are traders. I was interested to put all thing here. But it is not suitable for space.

The last presenter, my guru in modern linguistic Dr. Rahim Ismail. I know he also has fighted for the sake of Arabic teaching and learning in Malaysia. I feel like to know what he was going to present for I always follows his previous writing. I remember deeply his philosophy in teaching and learning langguage, especially Arabic. "Use Arabic to learn it, but not to learn how to use it".

To sum up, this is my valuable experience for the year 2007. The next conferences or seminars will give the same or more. May Allah give me more opportunities.

Ila al-liqa.