Reflections on Second Assignment.

In the second assignment, we decided to do a research on online chat room. At first we

had encounter difficulty in getting the corpus and we almost give up. But, after consulting Dr.

Rozina and have clear view on what she wants, we agreed to just continue with the same topic.

We then, divided the tasks to each of us; Eslam did the summary of the article and the 3 of us did

the analysis on the corpus. Everyone had put their best effort to finish up their task within the

time. Credit should be given to Sarah as she finally found the corpus. Praise to God we managed

to submit the assignment on the submission date.

Generally, what we can conclude from this research is that in real time conversation

people tend to ignore the features of written language. This might be because of the time

constraint as they need to give their response immediately as they were speaking. However, this

style of writing does not affect the conversation because as they were in the real time

conversation, they can ask the other chatter to explain further if they had not understand

anything.

In conclusion, through this assignment, we got to know the differences between written

language and spoken language and how to distinguish between both. Besides, we enjoy doing

this assignment.