Self-assessment

ESP Vocabulary test – here I faced two main problems. First, there were a lot of new words, which were very hard to memorize or to find synonyms. Second issues, big part of definitions firstly were learned in ESP class and only then in Psychology lecture.

Writing summaries –I had my first experience in writing summaries. In school I wrote few times a descriptive summary, but it wasn’t a serious work. This term I was absorbed with this task. For me was always interesting to shorten and recombine text, and in same to left it logically correct.

Online Exercises - Every time, then we were doing this exercises, I personally was making one or two mistakes in each sort of tests.  They weren’t so complicated, just sometimes I was inattentive: I was reading too fast and didn’t understand question correctly, or was too hurry in tipping an answer.

Moodle test – here I had the most unpleasant experience.  On a bright side, they helped me to learn main point of the module. On the other hand some questions confused me. Example on module 24 the is a question: “The difficulty with trial and error is that some problems are so complicated that it would take a long time to try out every possibility; thus, trial and error is not a(an) _______________ strategy “. The correct answer is (if you haven’t done this module, skip this part) effective. It is logically correct, but apart from this, there are a lot of other possibilities: good, suitable, correct and others. But test doesn’t take it as a correct answer.

Online Listening class – I always prefer listening tasks. In first term I didn’t feel that I having problems with it. Almost every time there was two types of exercises after listening: true and false, and synonyms. First wasn’t taking a lot of time, and the second one was a problem only I didn’t know  definition of the word.

Traditional Listening in Cassettes – I hardly can see any difference from online listening class, maybe except only one, after listening we had opened questions. But as in a previous point of self-assessment, tasks weren’t difficult.

Power Point Presentation – one of the most interesting, and at that same time difficult task. It took a lot of time, to find, analyze information, make a Slide Show, prepare a text for presentation and rehearse a presentation. Also it was a very pleasant work, I could express myself through it.

Speaking Impromptus – I have problems with speaking, especially then there are more than 3 speakers. It is very stressful for me, and so I begin forgetting word, my ideas mix up. It the main field where I need to work a lot.

Short Talks – As I said earlier, I have problem with speaking, but with short talks it is easier. I have already prepared a text with a plan, main ideas. And if I calm down, I can speak very well, but it doesn’t happen often, so I need a very tough training.

P.S. It is my first experience in self-assessment and I hope I didn’t fail.