Biweekly Journal 1

[Jae Wan Kim]

In the two weeks that I’ve met with my language partner, I learned new vocabulary words and metaphors. My language partner taught me the words before I can apply them in my reading of a news article. I think reading the article that the words were taken from helped me to reinforce my knowledge of how the words are used in a sentence. The words that I learned were considerably sophisticated and not pedestrian for an everyday conversation. Therefore, I don’t think I will use all of these words for speaking. I hope, however, to use these words for writing. Currently, I am writing the words, their definitions, and sentences using the words. I think my strategies are effective because I can recall most of the words that I have learned. I think that I can use the words that I have learned in the past two weeks to learn new words.