How have you organized your self-directed learning plan, and what have you learned so far? How will your studies allow you investigate your target language and culture more deeply? What first prompted your interest, and motivated you to start learning?
After receiving feedback from your classmates and Dr. Marsh-Soloway, what changes do you anticipate making?
As I’m finishing up my learning plan, I’ve become very appreciative of the “task-based” learning method. This way of organizing allows me to focus on specifically what I think is practical and necessary for my future endeavors in the target language. I know I want to live with a host family during my time in Dakar, Senegal. Therefore, I’m focusing interpersonal communication, interpretive listening, and presentational speaking. I think it would be to my greatest advantage to be able to understand and verbally communicate basic phrases in Wolof. In this way, my studies will provide me with the tools to have a more meaningful experience will I’m abroad.
Additionally, I plan on adding more resources to my plan. I want to peruse my options in terms of multimedia available such as movies and TV series.
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