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Brief 2

The topic Second Language Acquisition is very broad so I chose three particular topics to research on.

1. Definition of SLA
2. Stages for SLA – Processing
3. Age factor for SLA

The reasons why I chose these topics were I want to make sure the meaning of SLA before I go for further study on it and I thought these are the most important background knowledge to develop more ideas. Also I’ve heard some debates going on about the ‘age factor’ when people learn second language and I hoped to find out that there is a certain answer or not.

As I started at the Mahara for my view, I found some limitations with it. Actually, there was a choice between Mahara and blogger.com but most of our classmates were using Mahara and also one of my teachers recommend that Mahara is a good staring point so that’s why I decided to use it. There were limitations to show my works in a tidy and nice way with a view. I mean I couldn’t choose for the arrangement - It was just like all the texts were spread out through whole web site. However, I found a better method for better arrangement as I talked with my classmates – using blog section at the mahara. That was the exact way how I wanted to show my works in nice, clean and easy as just clicking links to read articles or watch video clips etc. So I posted all my texts in the blog pages and they all appeared as ‘recent blog posts’ in my view.