To be a successful self-directed learner, you need to be able to reflect upon your own learning. In SDLC 105 you are assigned to reflect upon readings about language, language learning, and culture in a blog. This blog is your learning journal, and the assigned topics are designed to help you become a reflective learner. In SDLC 110 - 113, you are asked to reflect regularly on your language learning activities. These reflections should be informed by the work you are doing / have done in 105 but should be much more specific about how you are learning your target language.
Each post should include:
- the task(s) you are working on;
- a statement of what you hoped to accomplish;
- the strategies (activities and resources) you used to work on your task(s);
- an evaluation of the effectiveness of your strategies;
- how you will build on what you have learned about the language;
- how you will build on what you have learned about your strategies.
Other aspects of language learning to reflect upon when it's appropriate:
- your emotions about language learning (pride, frustration, enthusiasm, etc.);
- connections between the language you are learning and the culture of where it is spoken;
- experimenting with new learning strategies for listening, speaking, reading, and writing;
- a successful experience in your learning;
- a not-so-successful experience;
- revisions in your task lists and/or short-term and long-term goals.
Comments
I am working on alphabet and pronunciation using non-arabic numbers. I am also using utexas.edu/persian. youtube helps me pronounce and see at the same time. I found a music video with persian written in non-arabic letters so I can try to memorize it: called broken angel by Arash feat. Helena www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ltilAl1iSE. I hope to start reading/ pronouncing letters soon. Strategies are using dictionary, watching youtube I think that I like to look at the pronunciation but I should be writing or using flash cards because it is not really improving quickly. I want to be able to see the letters in words and pronounce them without the accent markers. My strategy is ineffective. Instead I will use some writing and flash cards to be more active rather than just watching movies. I was also listening to random recordings and that is too advance right now. I think I should focus on the utexas site. I am enthusiastic about listening because it is fun to repeat but I am not sure I can use it apart from the recording so I am not so proud. The culture I haven't learned anything about yet, but there is now some romance in the music. My news feeds show some anti-colonialism. I want to rosettastone sometime because it verifies pronunciation. I think that I will not try to learn media farsi; just the basics.