2011年2月23日水曜日

Final Reaction looking back on ARW

Through this one year, I learned how to read and write academically, rather than English. It is true that we learned and improve our English skills so much, but I think it was also important to implement "Academic Readind and Writing". Through ARW classes, I managed to understand how to confront with academic articles. That was precious experience for my future.

Even after ending ELP classes, I may encounter many academic articles which should be examined and criticized. When I meet such situation, I try to remember how to read those articles learned in ARW classes. In some day, I want to take TOEIC or TOEFL tests in order to facilitate my job hunting in the future. In order to achieve, I also try not to forget how to learn English skills learned in whole ELP classes. This is brief plan for improving my English skills.

Thank you for teaching. I feel glad if we can see on campus.

2011年2月22日火曜日

WP

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AdLT5eSVKQDtZGNnY3g0aGhfMzFodHBmdDVmYg&hl=en

These are my slides for my Winter Project. Introduced by my ELP ARW Teacher, Mark, we try to use use 20*20 Pecha Kucha for presentation. That was somewhat easy and somewhat difficult for me.

At first, the topic of my presentation was about surrogacy. Though I know it was so curious and controversial topic, I felt it didn't stimulate my intellectual curiosity. Then, I realized the new topic which made me felt very interesting. After that, I tried to make new presentation just before on air. When I have presentation in the class, I feel very confident because the content of my presentation was good. However, since I had not practiced so much, I broke the time limit. That was the very failure of my presentation.

There are things I learned from WP. First, I understood that it is difficult to make good presentation unless the topic is not so interesting for me. In fact, I was able to prepare more easily after discovering new topic. Second, it is necessary to discover topic more earlier. This time, it was so late to find good topic for my presentation. Therefore, I was not able to prepare and practice so much, and my presentation was failed in keeping time.

That was my reaction for my Winter Project presentation.