A Nightmare? Perhaps.....

My experience of using Tun Sri Lanang databases would be ‘the most miserable nightmare’ I have ever gone through! I hope it will be the first and the last…Actually it was an experience that taught me to be a patience person because I am not. Before I used TSL databases, actually I have the experience of using Lexis-Nexis database in Tun Abdul Razak Library in Uitm, Shah Alam. But, the difference is, it was much easier on the other words, it was easy to access into the databases. Here, in TSL I found that it was so hard to access into some databases even I have tried so many times.
What I can say about all the databases are, most of the articles and journals that I have found are not very informative for me in order to have better understanding in the topic that I have selected which is ‘The Application of ICT in Language Learning’. This is because most journals and articles are about research and case study, which I am not familiar with. But, I confess that this kind of articles is actually helping us to be creative, as the information is not spoon-fed to us.
Frankly speaking, using wikipedia, yahoo and google are much easier as they have no specification in searching for the information that I need as well as they have wider information. For example, yahoo. Just type anything and the results will appear. However, for the TSL databases, I typed the title and frequent answers are ‘No Match Found’ or ‘0 result found’.
At last, with all the efforts and patience I managed to find information on the Application of ICT in Language Learning from three different databases, which are Ebscohost, Emerald and Proquest.

My Understanding
All the information discusses about their researches on how the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in language learning is facilitating the learners. The existence of ICT has created an invention to the learning process. Basically, ICT provides the language learners with many choices. For the English language learner, they can learn English via ESL website. Online learning allows students to feel more relaxed as they are directly facing the monitor instead of the whole class when answering the given task. In addition, the learning process is only between students themselves and the computer and this will make them more comfortable when make mistakes. Online learning encourages the students to write as well as to read. This is because everything demonstrated on the screen must be read and this indirectly will enhance the writing and reading skills. Besides enhancing the language proficiency, it will also improve our organisation skill in using ICT, make us alert on the issues surrounding as well as computer literacy. The usage of ICT is becoming part and parcel of the education system nowadays. It can be seen that an ICT-based activity is being urged as an essential learning tool. Just like what I am doing now!!