A reflective note
Hello everyone!
Today I’d like to share with you my thoughts about
classes of Academic Writing in this semester.
To begin with, I’d like to start off by telling you
about what I found useful. Personally, I really enjoyed watching the International
IATEFL Conference which was devoted to learning foreign languages and teaching
them. Firstly, the main theme was engaging for me. Secondly, I had a good
opportunity to practice listening, which is as important as writing. I’ve
learned many important things which are going to be useful for me in my future
teaching career. Another useful activity was revising the thesis statement. I
always had problems writing it, so during the class, I could figure out and
learn the special techniques of making it up, and now I feel really grateful for
that.
Nevertheless, there was something I didn’t quite like
about our classes. I wish we had discussed our works more often because when we
talk, we start thinking and analyzing. Of course, we can do it all online, but
I felt a lack of real communication during the class.
To sum up, I want to say that I’d like to learn more about writing using formal style as it’s going to be essential for us when we live the
university. Also, I suppose it will be great if we revise punctuation rules
more often as they’re easily forgotten, and I think that punctuation is the most difficult part of writing in English as it differs very much from our
mother tongue’s rules.
Thank you!
Hello Natasha,
ОтветитьУдалитьthanks for your course feedback. I'm glad you've found many of its activities interesting and useful and hope you'll be able to build upon the skills you have acquited this year in the future.
I'll try to balance the discussion of your work better in the future. The reason why it was organised this way this year is that the number of students in your group in rather large, so organising it in a different way was difficult.
As for the practice of writing in formal style, I thought you had enough of it but I will try to include more of it in the next year's course.
What I can do too is share these materials and exercises with you if you want. Only get in touch with me in the beginning of the next semester to remind me about it.
Good luck with improving your writing skills in the future!