Tuesday, 20 August 2013
ES1102 (reflective writing)
After graduating from my secondary school, I decided to take an IELTS course while waiting for my UEC result. I took this course as I wanted to improve my English especially in writing, listening and speaking part. During that period, I tried to surround myself with English environments such as watching television programs and reading a lot of articles in order to widen my vocabulary and improve my writing skills. My friends and I tried to speak English all the times and after few weeks I felt more comfortable to talk to people in English. I can also understand when someone talk with me in English except for those who have heavy accent. However, I am still unable to speak confidently in the public. Hopefully I can overcome it as soon as possible! Besides, my tutor helped me a lot in my writing skills. She helped me to correct my grammar mistakes and gave me some comments on how to elaborate my ideas. She also taught me to do a mind map before writing any kind of essays. I found it very useful as it helped me to write my essays without pausing. After this course, my writing skills has improved a lot. However, I did not continually surround myself with English environments after having my IELTS exam. As a result, my writing and speaking skills have obviously decreased! What I hope now is to improve my writing and speaking skills through this English modules.
kindly help me to correct my grammar mistakes thank you !
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Kit Ying has described her problem in learning English and how she had overcome it in details. She also reflected the experiences she gained and learned from them.
ReplyDeleteKit Ying,
ReplyDeleteQuite a good reflection on your English learning experience. Please read my comments below:
Content and organisation: You thoughtfully described your learning experience in the IELTs course, explained why you took the course, and what you did to improve on your English. However, it would be have been good to include examples as well; for example, what you improved on by doing a mindmap.
Language: Overall your writing is quite clear; there are just a few errors which I am sure you can improve on with more care when you write. Please see comments below:
1. Plural noun: After graduating from my secondary school, I decided to take an IELTS course while waiting for my UEC result. I took this course as I wanted to improve my English especially in writing, listening and speaking part.--'part'. You listed in total three PARTS.
2. Subject-Verb Agreement: Can you spot the error in:
I can also understand when someone TALK with me in English except for those who have heavy accent.
3. Use of article 'the':
Do you know when we use the article 'the' and when we don't use any article at all?
However, I am still unable to speak confidently in the public.
4. Be careful when you use pronouns such as she, he, they, her, him and them. In the sentence below, you mentioned you had a tutor but did not specify the gender, then in the next sentence you began referring to the tutor as 'she'. The relationship between 'tutor' and 'she' must be explicit; otherwise you should use not use 'she' to refer to the tutor.
5. Careless mistake with using singular / plural noun. Can you see the error?
What I hope now is to improve my writing and speaking skills through this English modules.