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Reflection 5: CMC
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First of all, before we start we want to express our gratefulness to Allah s.w.t because of His blessings upon all of us. We are so thankful for this healthy mind and body so that we can continue seeking knowledge that is beneficial for all of us here. As mentioned in a hadith narrated by Al- Tirmidhi "seeking knowledge is obligatory for every Muslim" and in reference to this hadith, as Muslims and also students, we are encouraged to seek knowledge in order to elevate our status as Allah's vicegerents in this world.
Recently, we have learned about CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication) in class and we realized many of its advantages can help us improve our learning processes especially in language. However, as students we are not free from questions and always wonder to what extent we can consider CMC a formal or informal discourse?
In our opinion, CMC is considered as formal-medium discourse when it involves with serious topic discussion such as education, politic, economy and etc. These topic discussions are also important in determine the formality of discourse. For example, language used in response to the topic discussion that was posted on online forum in i-Taleem website can be considered as formal. Because the conversation was between lecturer and students therefore it is related with education. Due to the topic discussed, students must observe their languages so automatically it is in formal manner.
On the other hand, communication that is mediated on computer also use informal discourse. For instance, the example can be observed mostly on social media accounts like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, blog and others. In this case, the language use is informal depends on the seriousness of the topic. Usually, in social media the topic discussed is very relax and the language sometimes contains slang and dialects thus it uses informal discourse.
In a nutshell, the discourse use in CMC can be either formal or informal and also the topic discussed plays an important role for us to determine which discourse that is suitable to use in the communication.
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