2009 m. gegužės 12 d., antradienis

Self-assessment of success in learning ESP

I am learning ESP for almost 9 moths. During this spring semester I have gained much new and useful information. I would like to analyse my achievements and failures in more detail.
To start with, I have learned to write a new type of summary – the restatement summary. Although I have some difficulties with distinguishing from the plenty of information the basic facts and not writing the details, I have managed to master writing this kind of summary.
Secondly, I have written ESP vocabulary tests and I am quite satisfied with the results. Although it was hard to learn all information in English, still it was already known from my Psychology classes.
What is more, I have taken performance in class dictations, which was the easiest part for me. I have made only few mistakes. I think I should broaden my knowledge in punctuation, because the dictation showed up that I am quite weak in this area.
In addition to this, I have participated in listening practice in class. The results were disappointing. I think I must do more listening practices, because I have big difficulties in understanding the spoken language.
Moreover, I have made power point presentation. Although making power point presentation was a difficult task, it was interesting and involving. The most interesting and my favorite part of the lectures was to listen my peers’ power point presentations, some of them were really good.
Furthermore, I have participated in short talks on ESP themes in class and that had improved my speaking skills. I am very glad about that, because I think the most important is to be able fluently speak in English.
In conclusion, the requirements were high, but I have managed to inure to them during the winter semester so now it was easier to fulfill them. In my opinion, it is still plenty to learn and I hope that I will have a possibility to do that in next term.

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