AY2021: READING SKILLS (TUE. 4) COURSE EVALUATION
It is time for self-reflection. Please write about your own reflection as a learner of this course.
I’m able to speak up and be proactive.
I think that my essay writing skills have improved through the English Reading Skills 2 class. In this course, I learned how to write an MLA-style essay, which helped me understand how to write in a formal way. I think this is a skill that will be useful in my future life, and I would like to improve it .
I forgot to submit few assignments. I learned more deeply by writing essays. I am grad I was able to attend almost all of the class. I want to make use of my experience writing English essays when writing research papers.
It was good to have the opportunity to think about freedom of expression. I couldn’t submit Essay 2 because I couldn’t quite put my thoughts together, but I think that the fact that I seriously struggled with it was meaningful in itself.
I had only written English essays of 100 words at most, so I was able to train myself. I also enjoyed reading the hidden meaning of the white elephant, although it was difficult. It made me want to try reading English books.
As a learner, I was able to read essays, learn about social events, and learn new vocabulary. Also, by writing my own essay, I was able to not only read, but also deepen my own thoughts. The group discussion activities also allowed me to take in different points of view.
I have rarely had the opportunity to write essays in the past. Therefore, it took me a long time to figure out how to compose it in Japanese. This time, I wrote my essay in English and received opinions from my group members, which made me feel a little less uncomfortable about writing essays.
I have gained the power to criticize literary writing. Also, I think my communication skills have improved.
I experienced the difficulty of outputting the English knowledge I had learned so far as needed.I learned that I still needed more practice to be able to use English.I want to shorten the time between thinking in my head and saying it out loud.
I learned about the “MLA format” for the first time in the class. I think it will be a good base for reading and writing academic articles, so I would like to use my experience in the class to study academic articles.
The hardest thing I did in this course was peer review. I learned how to write an accurate review. At first, it was just a critique, but little by little, I became a better reviewer. This is because I was able to exchange opinions with other students. I think I will be able to use this when I write reports and read them again in the future.
In addition to reading articles in English about something I want to research, I can now learn to read articles in Japanese and summarize them in English. I am now able to compete in fields where Japanese language support is limited.
It was good to learn the format of writing in English.
By reading peers‘ essays, I could think from a different perspective. This experience will be practical when I write my paper in English.
It was very good because I noticed my lack of vocabulary and slow reading comprehension. I think I was able to acquire vocabulary and speed reading skills through the class.
I think I should have thought about where I could use the skills I acquired this time while learning.
There were some words in the model’s text that I didn’t understand, so I looked them up as I read, and my vocabulary grew. In my essay, I was able to accept the critical opinions of my peers and use them to improve my own essay.
The content of the text was very interesting. I was particularly interested in the death penalty. Many of the developed countries in the world are moving toward the abolition of the death penalty, but I wanted to find out why. I missed the class schedule for the new year and was absent unexpectedly. I am very sorry.
In developed countries, the death penalty is being abolished, and the lesson was triggered by wondering why. In the fall semester, I missed the class schedule a little and deeply regret that I was absent. Also, my writing skills have improved through the lessons, so I would like to continue writing English.
I thought deeply about the issues in the world that were the theme of essays, and also learned how to write essays that I can use in my future university life.
I learned how to quote correctly and how to write clear and compelling sentences by teaching each other with peers.
I forgot to submit my assignments a few times, so I want to be careful. I think I should have checked the details of the essays I read and absorbed the grammar and vocabulary more efficiently.
I learned how to quote and now I can use it correctly. However, there were times when I submitted it to the last minutes without satisfying the task. I regret this but I’m sure my English skill got improved.
I learned to organize a sentence clearly and think logically. I’m going to apply this skill when I see things logically and find the core structure of them.
I was able to learn how to write sentences in a logical way that is easy for others to understand. I think this will be useful in the future, not only in my job or when I use English, but also when I want to convey my opinion to someone else.
Thank you for participating in my class from 2020-2021. I have learned a lot from many of you and I would like to say “thank you” to everyone of you for completing the assignments and for being my lovely students. If you have anything that you would like to tell me personally, you can write it here. Thank you and I love you all!
It was hard work, but it was fun！
Thank you and love you! 🙂
In this year, we could not take a class at face to face. However, in this class, I was given time to communicate other first year students. This was a very happy thing. Thank you for offering these chances.
I enjoyed taking your classes. Thank you very much!!!
In the absence of face-to-face classes, the occasional zoom was a fun opportunity to talk.
It was a good opportunity for me to organize my own opinions on various topics and share my opinions to others. Thank you very much!
Thank you very much for one year. I always concentrated on listening to the English you spoke. The class was fun. I am so disappointed that I didn’t realize the last class. I could not find the link.
Thank you for one year. I was happy to get a lot of feedback.
The fall semester class may have been a little difficult, but it was very helpful. Thank you for the fun class for the year, Dr, Lay!
It was a little difficult, but thank you for the very informative class, Dr, Lay!
I believe your lessons have improved my ability to write logically. Thank you for this year.
Thank you very much for the year! It was a very fun class and I am very satisfied with the improvement of my English skills.