samedi 9 mai 2009

Analysing my work

Written documents:
During these two years I have been doing a lot of things in English: blogs, portfolios, writings, speakings...I 've learned step by step and now I can see the evolution between my first work and my last one. Th first thing that I can remark is that I've get so much fluency in my writings but also in my orals, I've been learning more vocabulary. When I compared my first and last writing in my portfolio I could see how much I change my way of writing.
At first both writing differ on the topic but also in the structure. The first one was a presentation of my self. What I could see about my first entry is that it was a bit short, I used short sentences, the text lack from connectors and the repetitition, sometimes without reason, of the conjunction (and), I also think that it was not a complete text it could have been more detailed. About the fluency I think that I had it. The common mistake that I've made and that I still made is the use of the right verbs time. In the structure I made a bit too much paragraphs and the lack of connectors made the text boring. About the vocabulary I see that I used the basic thing that In that time I knew so it doesn't have the maturity that I get now.
My final writing was an informal letter that I enjoyed doing it because I didn't need to use any dictionary, the world were coming into my head naturally and this is very important , because in the exams we don't have any support so arrived in this level has been hard but justified, I used more connectors and I win in maturity.
Finally, I would say that it has been a good exercise to see steps behind and realized my evolution, if I'll repeat the same entry now it will probably be different and much better but there will be always mistakes! But all this works and the results that I get wouldn't be possible without the English teacher who had been always behind us , so Thanks for all you've been doing for our success.

Oral presentations:

When I analyzed my first oral and my last one, I didn't see so much differences, but it's true that I've improved in my fluency and I introduced new vocabulary which make the presentation richer.
In all my presentations I've been nervous but when I start to talk I controlled my nervs. In my first oral I had to talk about a personal topic so it had been easy for me to do it, a big part of my oral consisted on improvisation then I talked about hobbies. The fluency was quite good but what I could see is that I needed vocabulary, because sometimes I had to stop talking just to think about how to say a word. The atmosphere of the class also helped me to calm myself, I had no fears to talk because I knew that I made myself understandable even if I used to talk a bit faster than now. I didn't used any power point and I think that it could have been better using it, because it a good support.
In my last oral presentation, I was not very prepared but I think that it was quite good, Also because I was not alone, and this fact helped me a lot, when we do couple presentation we feel more comfortable and we trust more in our selves. In this last presentation I used a richer vocabulary which give a kind of maturity to the text. I also used more connectors. But it's obvious that I've made some mistakes like using a female possessive when I had to used a male one but in most of the cases I correct these kind of mistakes meanwhile I speak.
Finally, what I can say about this detailed analyzed is that all the works we made in the blogs, the writing, and particularly the orals which helps us all to improve our speaking in English and our fluency had been necessary and very usefull in our future. Now we 're all able to have a thoughtful conversation en English.

2 commentaires:

KST TEACHERS a dit…

Thank you Chanez, you've understood the idea perfectly well : " the teacher was behind us all the time " that's the secret of this new way of teaching!!
"You work and we help you" and not " we explain and you switch off"

Kate a dit…

Just wanted to say, your English is amazing! Keep up the good work!