My SUPER , Awesome and cool skills in my native language!!!!!!

OK I feel more tired now, but anyways Im excited to tell about some of my skills. I believe that one of my skills is that I am a good listener and Im not the best person when it comes to take notes, but the way I can apply this is to listen closely and more focus on the main ideas. Another skill that I can tell is that I like to talk and discuss with people, so I guess this can help me have the right motivation to talk to my classmates in English and learn from them as well. I love getting to know different cultures and try to emulate good study habits...

My experience in the GAP this semester!!!!

Actually to begin I will say that i'm very tired because is late, but I do want to share how I feel about this great experience. First, I am very happy with myself and I am grateful for the wonderful teachers I had this semester. Second, I recognize that I have improve and learn more that I think or see, because I believe learning is a continue process, for some people it takes longer to progress, but for other is more easy, but I can say that is all about ATTITUDE. Finally, I can say that something that I can do to prepare for next semester is applying the things that I have learnd ad the things that were the most helpful and useful for me. I love English and I love Learning English, specially at a wonderful place like the ELC.

Do I feel like I have improved my English? Why or why not?

Do I feel like I know how to better learn by myself and in the classroom?

What goals do I have for future improvement with my English learning?

What can I do to prepare myself for next semester?

What has been helpful to me this semester?

What has been unhelpful to me?

These question are improtant to me who will study next semester again.
At the beginning of the semester I felt homesick and it was hard for me. Even though as times went by it was getting better but it affcted my studying English a lot. I realized thant  enjoying studying and maintaining my good condition are more importnt  for me to improve my  English.  I don't satisfied with my studying but I think that my English actually has developed. My goal for next semester is to focus on classes , writing an essay 300 for 30minutes in less grammar erros and speaking without pause.

Do you feel you have made progress in your language skill? why?

I think that I improved this semester because I learned more how to express my ideas in English, specially when I speak and I write, of course I need to practice more. I have to work in my structure everyday. Read and write can help me to be better in this language. I think that I speak better and I can think more quickly in English becuase most of the times I dream in English.

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For me it is really easy to speak in front of people in my own language. I think it is a good skill, I think I can apply it in English as well.  Practice always is really good, it is important to trust in ourselves always and we are going to improve more!  We need to study vocabulary and try to have good structure. We we think more clearly we are going to have more opportunities to express ourselves better.

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I am a pretty good writer in my native language. But the writing still I have can't not support me to write what ever I want I do in Chinese, the strategy that I use is try my best to translate my idea into English and then have a native speaker to to retouch it.

My native launguies skills

I am good at Korean because I am a Korean. When I think about childhood, I didn't good at reading, writing because I was child and I didn't know many word. As time went by, my reading and writing was better by trying read book a lot. It is really helpful to read book. However, I know how hard is read book. Even though I didn't like book in Korean, It is more difficult to read book in English. Reading is really important to improve language. When I reading book, I could find new word and I could learn. At first, it was not easy, but I became a girl of literature. I also writing ability getting better. I think it is important to find own hobbies connected with English. If we do that, we can keep our works without boring. In my case, I love dramas(TV shows) so I tried to watch American dramas. It will be helpful for listening and speaking. I want to find how I can study with interest.

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End of the class

I feel like I have improved my English especially for writing. I wrote not good essay at first, but I feel I am getting better. When I concentrate to class, I could learn more. I also, got more knowledge when I did my homework. I want to go university in USA and I want to improve my English in the school. I can prepare for next semester by studying myself. And I can experience work, travel, and so on. It was helpful to do my homework and I could improved my writing skill. However, sometimes I didn't like GAP hour. Because sometimes I didn't have motivation, so I didn't work hard. I just wasted my time. I need to planning my time.

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Endure to the end.

I have a great time this semester to learn English , and I improve so much. At the beginning it was so hard for me to understand my class but step by step i learn a lot. English is so hard to learn but I am trying everyday to learn it even though I makes a lot of mistakes in my Grammar and other stuff. At the end of this semester i can say i learn a lot and I am so happy study at ELC and thank you Miss Clack to teach me. I have a great Happy Christmas!!! God bless you and your Family.

Emma!!

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After one semester in the ELC, I do feel that I have made a big improvement I didn't even expect in the very beginning. I now can write paragraphs and essays more fluently, and they finally make sense. I can take notes faster with structure. I now can communicate with native speaker better.
It feels different studying alone from studying in the classroom. When feel like I really need to focus on my assignment, I prefer bringing my homework home and finish it alone. Those group subjects I do with my classmates of course, and also stay in the lab when I don't feel like doing any work to cheer myself up.
There are several goals I have for future improvement, such as, I want to finish the two books That I choose for the Christmas break, and . Speed up my reading rate to 200 words per minute. typing rate 40 WPM. Write a 350 essay in 30min.
I think I'll just keep up reading to prepare for the next semester.
The typing program, soft read, all kinds of exercises that the reading teacher gave us, writing assignments, lab hours and the activities were all very helpful.
But the presentations we did were not effective except the one with movies.

Endure to the end!!!

I have improved my English for this semester, but not as much as last semester. But I think that is my problem, I did not try my best. I remembered last semester I had an assignment for Listening and speaking class was watching movie/TV for half hour. Another assignment for Writing was writing down your daily life for 10 minutes. For me, these two assignment helped me a lot. This semester I learned how to enjoy writing! Next semester I will take a break, I will make plans to study by my own to prepare next semester just like what we did this semester. I know I need to improve my Listening, vocabulary and Writing words count. I think learning languages you need to have the heart and endure to the end. Add oil! Haha that’s how we say in Chinese to encourage people!!!

I do feel that my English had improved, however I was expecting more improvement in my writing skills.
I hope that in the future I can have more time in class to learn how to write a paragraph, and essay as well.
Next semester I will be more aware to learn more vocabulary and read more as well, because I thing that is one of most of effective activity.

My improvements in learning English

Hello everybody, since one month ago I started to think seriously about what I learned this semester. For me This semester was hard, when a came to the first class I was disappointed because almost everybody spoke very well. I feel a little uncomfortable. This was why I did not like to speak in classes, but after a time I started to change my mind. Now I can tell you that I realize I learned more things that I thought before. Now when I speak I can see my errors more clear than before. Also I learned to develop my own skills, how to study and what sources use . This were the most important things. I could not accomplish all my goals, but it was because I did less that I could. I will never forget that to be at the ELC teach me more things than only English. I had interesting experiences this time in my life that I will never forget. I learned to understand and love to others. I made a lot of new friends that they helped to me to see the life with different eyes. I feel so blessed for that. During the next semester, I will work very hard and I´m sure I will achieve my goals. Now I´m feel more confident!

I'm getting better

In this semister, I have improved a lot because I tried to study hard and I practiced much more than last semister. I still like learning English, so I should continue to study English for my goal.
When I read a American novel, I was so happy because I understood clearly. It gave me to build up self-confidence and better attitude.

This Semester

Last Thanksgiving I visited my American family since I started studded at ELC, they said that my English improved a lot and I feel like, I think that now I can understand the words more clearly and my vocabulary has increased and I can express myself better. I developed my own way to learn and I will be better prepared for the next semester. I intend to keep my enthusiastic and had work, some students have a decrease in the second semester, but I will effort myself to this don’t happen. This semester I improved my writing skis because I learn structure and I practiced a lot.

As I look back on This Semester...

I studied harder in this semester than last semester even though maintaining motivation continuously was sometimes difficult for me. To be honest, I was disappointed about being in the GAP and frustrated with its program, because many of my former classmates went to AA. I thought they are studying more advanced things, and I have envied them. However, I didn't want to lose my motivation for studying, because I didn't want to waste my time and money; thus I decided to study hard and I did it. Also, I thought that if I studied hard, and if I couldn't improve my English, I would be able to blame the GAP program for that. But fortunately, I passed the Michigan Test today, so I can go to LDSBC next year~. Yay! :D Although I didn't like the GAP program, I didn't give up studying, so I could improve my English as a result.
Actually, I hadn't been able to recognize the improvement of my English skills, but I realized that I've surely progressed my English so far since the beginning of this semester. I've learned the importance of working hard continuously in this semester. To sum up, I liked this semester and am grateful for my teachers! Of course for my classmates too!

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Dear Students,

This is the last assignment on the metacognitive blog this semester. I want you to think and then write about this semester's learning experience in the GAP. Here are some questions that can help you:

• Do I feel like I have improved my English? Why or why not?
• Do I feel like I know how to better learn by myself and in the classroom?
• What goals do I have for future improvement with my English learning?
• What can I do to prepare myself for next semester?
• What has been helpful to me this semester?
• What has been unhelpful to me?