lunes, 26 de agosto de 2013

Journal Entry N°1

This unit was more than I expected because for the first time I could use my one experience in one piece of work. I used my experience in the stadium to write an essay and for that I wrote very fast and all the ideas were like floating in my mind and then appear on the paper. My essay was about how people are segregated and how they segregate according their way of speaking. The essay's presentations were really good, I felt very comfortable and confident when I was presenting and making use of the whiteboard.

I believe that the things, the content which we saw were very interesting because in Language IV and in linguistics we have seen a lot of new things and all of them very important. 

Productive Skills

Writening 

I think I'm a lot better but I believe I must improve in many ways because I'm very disorganized when I'm writing. The good thing in this is now I can write more things that before, because I have a better vocabulary with a better range.

Speaking

In this aspect I’m very lazy. I like to speak with others but sometimes I have don’t want participate because I felt I won’t be a contribution and in others moment I feel I don’t care about the topic and I believe that this matter has to be with my mood.

Receptive Skills

Reading

I have a substantial improvement in this area; I understand almost everything I read. The only problem here is my concentration, because I’m must be completely focus on the textbook to understand the words and another problem it could be the vocabulary because I must search some word to understand the meaning of some paragraphs.

Listening

I have an improvement here because now I always watch series and movies in English with English subtitles. At first was really complicated but after some movies I started to understand almost everything and now I’m starting to watch it (series and movies) without English subtitles and is very regarding when I understand what the guys on TV are saying.

Fluency

Now, because I’m a little bit lazy, my fluency is not quite good.