Hello everybody!I would like to tell you that I created another blog.My intention was to facilitate for everyone: then I separated the blogs by subject.My new blog is focused on subjective issues.Well, I hope you enjoy it!Take a look and feel free to comment whatever you want to...I appreciate for future visits to my new blog, called "My Dark Silence".To visit "My Dark Silence", click the folowing link:http://www.mydarksilence.blogspot.com/ Self-Access Study and Cooperative Foreign Language Learning through ComputersProf. Dra. Mariangela BRAGA NORTEUniversidade Estadual Paulista ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of extra-class study and self instruction in Foreign Language Learning (FLL), especially with the use of computers. Learning is an individual act and the teachers know that the ideal language student is the one that is responsible for his/her self-learning. This research presents two experiences of learning with the computer. The first part deals with autonomous learning and the use of CD-Roms and other software. The second part points out the use of e-mail with the objective of developing comprehension, writing and the amplification of cultural exchange in a cooperative study paradigm. The study followed a qualitative methodology. Data were gathered using the following procedures: interviews with the students involved in the process, students diaries, students self evaluation sheets, dialogues and teachers observation. Results indicate the relevance of the use of computer/internet as a way of improving FL teaching and learning.KEYWORDS: computer/internet, e-mail, self-access learning, cooperative study.The whole article can be found in the folowing address:http://rle.ucpel.tche.br/php/edicoes/v8n2/mariangela_braganorte.pdf A song of mine...(by Blark)I see someone cryI hear another screamJust to try make you really seeWhat still isnt lostBut its totally distorted(...)Stop to thinkAbout all you made believeNothing can beExactly the way you always wish(...)You can make a choice betweenEnslave someone or forgive himThe evil exists only in youThe hell is only our newCreation!P.s.: The excerpt above was written in 2007, during an English Language Course I did in Itajuba. Actually, it's not a poem but a song... The idea was to play a song from any artist, but I decided to write my own song.Unfortunately, there was no opportunity to perform it...Anyway, enjoy the lyrics!!! SILENCE - A SONNET(by EDGAR ALAN POE)There are some qualities -- some incorporate things --That have a double life -- life aptly madeThe type of that twin entity which springsFrom matter and light -- evinced in solid and shade.There is a two-fold Silence -- sea and shore --Body and soul. One dwells in desert placesNewly with grass oergrown. Some solemn graces,Some human memories (a tearful lore)Render him terrorless -- his name's "No More".He is the corporate Silence -- dread him not.No power hath he of evil in himself.But should some urgent fate (untimely lot!)Bring thee to meet his shadow -- (nameless elf,Who haunteth the dim regions where hath trodNo foot of man) -- commend thyself to God!25th, December, 1839.Available in: http://www.poebrasil.com.br/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=213&Itemid=57 If I could touch you... maybe green would become gray!I'm just a shadow of what I used to be...(Written by Blark) The Giaour - A Fragment of a Turkish Tale(A tale by Lord Byron,