Self-assessment

I am going to sum up my performances on speaking, listening, ESP tests, moodle tests and presentation in English classes and working at home.

First of all, I would like to comment my performance on moodle test. It seems that taking test at home by computer is very easy task. However, tests were more difficult than I hoped and taking test at home is not always useful. In my opinion my moodle tests scores are quite well, despite some mistakes what happens to everyone. The system itself was not very reliable. Good answers were mistaken for a wrong one and vice versus. I hope in the future electronic testing will improve.

ESP tests. These tests are very good for one reason, that most of the information that I have learned before writing one test or another is still in my head. Writing from your memory is very useful, if only memory does not fail. In my opinion my scores did not improved, but still I am glad by mine performance.

Speaking. I really enjoy speaking in English and I am pretty sure that I am good at that. However, I think that we should use more offhand speaking, because memorizing text at home and then spitting it out for a grade is not really useful. I am sure that speaking from your heart and not the head will be good for students and for sure I will improve my English speaking skills even more.

Listening. I think that the biggest advantage of this task is writing down dictated text. In my school years we have tried this kind of task only few times so I really enjoyed it in this semester’s English class. It was very pleasant to see how much my grammar have improved. As for the listening I always thought that my listening skills were very good. However, sometimes it was difficult for me to understand English people’s accent, but now I am sure, that my understanding of it has improved.

Presentation. I always enjoyed presenting some kind of topic, mostly because I could be creative. I think that this semester’s presentation was not worse or better than last semesters. Making a presentation is really good for revising and analyzing more accurate a given topic. This could really help you during your tests or exams.

To sum up, I think some of my English aptitudes improved, such as speaking and listening and I am very glad about that. There is no doubt that in the future I will keep improving. I am very glad that now English is not only about grammar, I have learned really important subjects. Now I am looking forward to the new semester!