terça-feira, 6 de março de 2012

Portfolio - Task #2


Portfolio - Task #2:  Based on Chapter 1
 
Language Learning Project task – page 15 # 11(Examples on pp. 16 &17)
Design an LLP for improving some aspect of your English Skills. 
·         Start by considering yourself and your context:
o   How much time will you have?  (Be realistic)
o   What access to English and opportunities to use it do you have
o   What do you like –and not like—about English Study? How can you make your LLP as appealing as possible?
·         Then make a plan for your LLP:
o   Set yourself a narrow, specific goal, such as improving your speed for reading fiction in English, building your reading vocabulary, or improving your ability to listen to films in English.
o   Decide what breakthrough point you might work toward.
o   Decide what study and practice methods you will use.
o   Make a study plan, including when and where you will study, and so forth.**put in here**

Goal
Expand my technical/academic vocabulary
Material
Academic texts on Internet from Scholar Google
Plan
Reading and studying academic texts twice a week in the afternoon after lunch.
Method
1.      Reading articles published by universities on Internet;
      "Theoretical and Practical Applications of Emergent Technology in ELT Classrooms: How the ‘Blog' Can Change English Language Teaching"

2.      Identifying and marking words that I don’t know;
3.      Understanding them;
4.      Making a key-word list;

Criteria for measuring progress
I will succeed if I …
-          Could compose by myself academic text without key-words list help.

Goal
Understanding native expressions
Material
Series
Plan
Watching series from TV three times a week at night.
Method
1.      Watching series;
2.      Indentifying native expressions;
3.      If it wasn’t understandable using the subtitles;
4.      Making a list;
5.      Understanding them;
6.      Making a key-word list;

Criteria for measuring progress
I will succeed if I …
-          can watch subsequent series without subtitles and understand them.

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