Self-assessment
I am going to sum up my performances on short talks, speaking impromptu, online listening, listening on cassettes, ESP tests, online exercises on modules, summary writing, moodle tests and presentation in English classes and working at home.
First of all, I would like to talk about speaking - short talks and speaking impromptu in classrooms. Speaking impromptu really helped to learn how to put my thoughts into words, This kind of exercise helps to learn grammar faster, teachers comments and correction helps to understand where you vocabulary needs more work. On the other hand, preparing short talks at home helped me with my vocabulary as well, because I looked into dictionary, tried all kinds of sentence arrangements. Talking in front of the class helped to gain more confidence, I improved my diction and pronunciation.
Online listening. Listening is the other way to improve my dictionary. Online listening really helped me understand real English language, because we have listened to a lot of English spokespeople. This exercise helped me improve my language skills.
Listening to cassettes. Same as online listening - helped me to improve my vocabulary and English language skills. One of the advantages of this exercise is writing down the tasks. This rely helped me with my grammar and now I think that it is better than last year.
ESP test. My testing did not improve since last years, but it is OK. In my opinion testing has its advantages and disadvantages. Memorizing definitions is not always a good way to learn. I often was feeling stressed and fatigue after memorizing definitions. However, all that memorized definitions from time to time come back, e.g. on vocabulary test, or reading a text I remember what one or another scientific word means. So I think that these kind of tests eventually helped me with my psychology vocabulary in English.
Online exercises. This task really helped me to fixate the learned definition into my memory. Revising the difficult parts of text and remembering the words improved my psychology vocabulary once again.
Summary writing. I think this exercise is the most profitable one. I learned to short my thought, to put them all together and write in short text form. It also helped to learn how to analyze text, to choose the key points and tie them all together. This learned skills will help me in my following studies for sure.
Moodle tests. My moodle test scores are quite well, sure it seems that taking test at home with answers right before you is easy, but the questions were not that easy at all. I had to think and explore my memory, remember the modules i have red. This exercise helped me to revise all the vocabulary that I once had to memorize and learn.
Power Point Presentation. I always liked to make and to present the PPP. I think that this years presentation is better than last's year, mostly because it did not include unnecessary facts and definitions, everything that I need to pass to the audience, I reported in words. I think this task helped me to understand what presentation is all about and presentation that I will make in the future sure will be formal and informative as this one was.
In conclusion, I think some of my English aptitudes improved, and I am very glad, but there is a place for more improvement for sure. I have taken from the ESP course as much as I could and I am sure, that my English will not disappoint me in my future.
