Dawn conducted its annual Phonetics Workshop in collaboration with Oxford University Press on May 20th and 21st at the OUP Auditorium inKarachi. The workshop was conducted as part of the Dawn in Education program and was a follow up to the previous Phonetics Workshops, raising the difficulty level this year by a notch. The workshop was conducted by Muhammad Ali Khan, Sr Instructor & Coordinator of the Professional Link Committee at the Centre of English Language, Aga Khan University, Karachi. He is a doctoral researcher at the department of Linguistics and English language Lancaster University, UK. He is also working as a researcher on the project “Language on the Move” run by Professor Ingrid Piller and Dr. Kimie Takahashi of Macquarie university, Australia.
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Spelling Bee Resource Guide
After the long wait, we are here with the 2011 Word list for Dawn in Education Spelling Bee Competition.
Phonetics Workshop Moving up to Islamabad
A series of Phonetic Teacher Workshops have been put together by the Dawn in Education in collaboration with Oxford University Press.
These workshops in Islamabad are scheduled to be held on
June 2, 2011
June 3, 2011
If you wish to register please Download Form from: Phonetic Workshop Reg. Form
Stay tuned in for more updates on the workshops being held in Islamabad.
Phonetic Workshop in Karachi
Dawn in Education in collaboration with Oxford University Press has initiated a set of workshops across Pakistan in Phonology. Teachers from across the country have registered and are registering for this workshop to gain a basic practical example of Phonetics, its importance, and its practical usage.
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Real Life Experience – Participant Nostalgia
Twice in my life have I realized the true value of forty seconds when they confronted me as a question; whether I would cross it and face a victory or a defeat, whether I would get in return the fruit of the continuous effort I had been making since as long as I don’t remember or return back listening to others just satisfying me by saying,
Life’s just a game of Luck!” or “Winning and losing is a part of the game, what matters is that you actually stood up to compete.” But sometimes, no good words are enough to console you.
I am a Bachelor’s student currently, and I participated in the Dawn Spelling Bee Competition twice. Once as a grade Ninth Student from Usman Public School, when I only managed to reach the Round 1, and once as a grade Twelfth student from D.A.Degree College for Women Phase VIII. In all these years, the Dawn Spelling Bee Book remained with me at all times, and on many occasions was my only pillow. At school, I started a scheme of introducing one new word from the Dawn Bee Book to the students in the Daily Morning Assembly. But unfortunately a struggle of three years could only take me till the Regionals.
But the disappointment I felt was nothing next to the pleasure I had by being a part of such a healthy and fair educational competition. Not only did I learn spellings, but many real life lessons. I learned what it is to compete, to accept that its not always possible to win, victory can not be always yours, the art of accepting defeat decently, to sit in a row with dozens of different people, to have the courage to speak when you are under the limelight and the judges and audience are listening to each letter you utter, and the only thing you can listen is the echo of your own voice in a fully occupied auditorium. It was then that I realized that a single correct spelled word can bring me victory parallel to when a thousand words uttered go unheard.
Competitions as healthy as this should always be encouraged, appreciated and promoted. To allow our children compete with the world, we have to provide them with numerous platforms like these, the trend has to be revolutionized. The importance of co-curricular activities have to be highlighted. They empower you, boost up your personality, give you a chance to experience what the real world is and what real socializing, interacting, competing and struggling is.
Dawn through this competition has brought forward those schools of Pakistan to our knowledge about which we had never even heard of before.
It is my sincere advice to all students, if life gives you an opportunity as beautiful as this, grab it, for what you’ll learn this way is something you won’t learn any other way, I had an ever-lasting experience. Only had I not turned seventeen so early, I would have participated the third time too.
Written By Tahoora Javed Chandna
