Metacognitive Blog Post 7

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.