Discussion Post #7

[Amy Jeon]

Looking back at my language learning plan, I gathered what I have accomplished, what has changed, and what should improve. Comparing myself to the beginning of this semester, I noticed that my writing skills have improved a lot. I do not hesitate as much when writing or typing. I also stopped hesitating when reading Korean out loud due to my article summary readings. I am still learning different grammar rules and incorporating what I have learned through my diaries and article summaries. I have also been consistently watching 2 Days and 1 Night, and allowing me to listen in Korean and learn more about Korean history and culture. One thing I have not been doing as often is listening to the radio stations. As the semester continued, I included different things in my learning plan as we went through our classes. After our class on language families and dialects, I started to get interested in learning about the Korean dialects, especially Busan and Gangwondo. My language partner suggested learning about proverbs and idioms in Korean because of how interesting the topic was. I realized that I didn’t have anything related to learning about proverbs and idioms, so I included this in my learning plan. At the beginning of my language learning experience, I did not assess myself on how much I have learned. After you recommended us to assess how much we know, I included it in my learning plan, and I have been getting assessed with the new vocabulary words (and now idioms/proverbs) that I have learned.  In my language learning plan, grammatical and sociolinguistic competence has been emphasized in my plan. Discourse competence is also included, but it is not as emphasized as the first two. To improve my communicative competence, I would need to focus more on talking in my language outside of my Korean lessons. I would also have to learn more about grammar and semantics to improve my grammatical competence.