Document (a) your goals and tasks for weeks 4 and 5, (b) the resources and activities you will use to achieve your goals, and (c) how you will evaluate your success.
a) Goals and Tasks for weeks 4 and 5:
- Week 4: to fully grasp greetings, goodbyes, thank you's, and apologies.
- Listening -- to understand conversations that involve greetings, goodbyes, apologies, and thank you's
- Speaking -- to speak using greetings, goodbyes, apologies, and thank you's
- Reading -- to understand a simple email, to understand greetings and farewell expressions in an email, and to understand the structure of emails in Bahasa Indonesia
- Writing -- to write a simple, informal email
- Week 5: to begin self-introductions, that of others, asking for information of others' identity, and survival language
- Listening -- To understand a monologue of others' self-introductions, to understand conversations that involve self-introduction; and, for survival language, to practice listening to a conversation that is mixed with Bahasa Indonesian and English.
- Reading -- to understand an Indonesian ID card
- Writing -- to write some descriptions about people / places
b) Resources and Activities
For week 4, I used a unit from the Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Education's resources. I wrapped up my goals for this task (greetings, goodbyes, thank you's, and apologies). I practiced my listening via dialogues from the unit as well as from videos on youtube such as Travellinguist. Next, I learned how to read a simple email in Bahasa Indonesia. I worked on the basic sentence structure of an email -- such as greeting and farewell sentences -- as well as sentences that would be the "core" of an email. For writing, I wrote an email to my learning partner's sister about her recent graduation from university in Indonesia. In it, I wrote: (Translation) "Peace and my respect, Hi Chacha, How are you? I am doing well. I hope that you are also well. Congratulations for graduating from university! I am learning Bahasa Indonesia! And I hope to meet with you this upcoming year. Peace, Brad" This email is my first artifact.
For week 5, I used Let's Speak Indonesian and another unit from thhe Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Education's resources. I learned simple self-introduction phrases, as well as soliciting identity information from others. Next, I learned how to read an Indonesian ID card. Every Indonesian has one. It is helpful to learn the language because it includes date of birth, marital status, occupation status, place of residence, etc. Moreover, I worked on my survival language from online videos (see below). From these videos, I learned basic directions, helpful phrases in a dining context, helpful phrases in case of an emergency (Where is the doctor and help!), as well as sentence structure. Furthermore, I focused a great deal on culture. Helpful videos from youtube allow me to gain insight into Indonesian culture. Some topics include etiquette, job availability, relationship advice, weather, food, etc. I also read about Indonesia's history from places like Foreign Affairs.
c) Evaluation
For these two weeks, I met with my partner for a total of 4 hours. There, my learning language partner tested me via speaking, writing, and listening tasks. I practiced not only vocabulary recollection but application as well. Lastly, to evaluate my learning progress, I watched a ton of videos. Slowly but surely, I am getting there as I can understand where words end and start, as well as introduction phrases and farewell phrases as well as some basic questions. This also allows me to hone in on my accent and listening skills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydIv8nvZHnQ&list=PL5932C77CEDE9BE30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDuOSAxOQDk&index=2&list=PL5932C77CEDE9BE30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFMrIjNRioU&index=4&list=PL5932C77CEDE9BE30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr-ikig2a1I&index=5&list=PL5932C77CEDE9BE30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19IIBscA5as&index=6&list=PL5932C77CEDE9BE30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GNP6PuN2qE&list=PL5932C77CEDE9BE30&index=8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-qhMlVU-JQ&list=PL5932C77CEDE9BE30&index=12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msodQF1XR9E&list=PL5932C77CEDE9BE30&index=17
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