Reflection for Week 1 and 2

These two weeks are not easy for me. First the class time is in shift 1, which means that I need to get up much earlier than shit 2. In the first week, it is really hard to struggle from the bed, especially in this winter season. But I know if I want to a successful man, I must pay attention for every details. After that I continually reminded me my goal before I get sleep and think the detrimental results of lazy habit. Now I can get up 6 o’ clock every day.

This module has higher requirement of independent learning. I think learning journal is a good way to improve my daily English, which means not only can I attempt to use English in academic purpose. Another advantage is that "blogger" can helps me to show own works in a public area, which helps me to pay more attention and learn from others when I writing something. For example, I am trying to use some new vocabularies in the dairy after finding wonderful vocabularies from my classmates’ blog. Meanwhile, I also found the "blogger" has a wonderful function that is “next blogger”. I can learn some extra knowledge in English if I feel tired.

In the lecture listening part, I found it is a little bit hard but I can follow it. The reason why I not did it well because I do not know which kind of questions it will ask. Next, the questions was quite different than before, which we always recorded what things happened; but now I find the question maybe force on the cause of something and how it happened.

I think the reading is a real problem for me in E7, the passages are always too long, and it is easy to lose concentration. But I think this practice is quite valuable because it is so shame that if I could not understand the meaning of journals when I start my postgraduate education. So I attempt to find some effective ways to conquer this problem, this week I am beginning to use ILC reading package for fast reading, I think it is really helpful.

What about the oral presentation? In the first week, I firmly thought the topic of oral presentation was hard to be chosen and the materials were difficult to be found. But now Carla give me some constructive advices which can help me present an interesting topic. I also have learnt how to make full use of RMIT library resources that is very helpful when I begin my study in university.

I reckon the critical thinking is also fairly helpful because it is the basic of creative thinking. After I writing some responses to some “professional” journal, I also understand more deeply how to write a more logic essay.

In conclusion, I have learnt some useful skill in E7, but the problem is that the effective of leaning was not very high, I need to learn more from others.