..::: Self-Evaluation :::..

Well, this English course was really helpful for me. To be honest, before entering the course I thought I almost knew how to speak English; but through the semester I noticed there were lots of aspects about the idiom I had to improve on.

I think I learned many things in the course. First, lots of words I didn’t know that helped me to get more vocabulary. I improved my listening with the records and the movies, but most of all with the classes because I hadn’t had a class in English ever =S , and having a native teacher that speaks very well the idiom is good to improve the listening I think. My grammar improved too: there are expressions I hadn’t even thought about what was the correct way to say those expressions; for example the correct use of hypothetical situations. I liked the journal writing; as I don’t usually write in English, the journal made me think about the correct spelling of some words and about the correct order of the sentences. Because of the readings in the book and some activities in classes, I got a better reading level as well. It has been the only English course where I have had to participate actively, and because of my mistakes and my companions mistakes, I learned the correct pronunciation of many words and that was useful to get a better speaking.

About the effort I put in the course, I think it was the necessary to learn well, but not the enough effort I had to put in. I should had studied for my own and do some extra classes activities to get a better learning I think. In the next course I’ll try to put more from me.

I learned lots of things in the course but, obviously, I must keep working on many other things. I have to work on the four aspects: reading, listening, speaking and writing. I think that I should try to practice more the idiom, by reading books, articles, etc. watching movies, listening songs, and trying to talk with people who speaks the idiom. I must keep working on grammar aspects and practice the writing with notes for myself for example.

Finally, I’d like to congratulate and thank you Shelley. You’re a very good teacher, I really like your method (I love watching movies, listening songs, and doing funny activities ^^), it made the class funny. And I like your way of being, always smiling, I think you’re a sweet person. If I’m able to, I’ll absolutely take another course with you =)

P.D. Sorry because I didn’t write on the blog in the semester, it’s just that I don’t usually write on facebooks, hi5, or things like those where you interact with other persons =$ but I think this is a nice way to communicate.

Neftalí