- Learning Journal 5: Post (a) an evaluation of your First Artifact conversation, and (b) an assessment of how well you met your learning goals for weeks 4 and 5.
(a): Evaluation
I chose to use a letter as my first artifact because it highlights but one of my goals: writing. Further artifacts will showcase speaking (conversation) and listening skills.
I thought I did well on my first artifact. One of my learning tasks it to be able to understand a simple letter as well as to write one. In the letter, I focused on the structure as well as the core. For the structure, I learned basic phrases to begin and end the letter. Next, I incorporated greeting phrases such as "How are you doing?" and "I hope you are doing well." Because the person to whom I wrote recently graduated from college, I wrote "Congratulations for graduating from university." I also told the person that I was learning Bahasa Indonesia. Lastly, I told the person that I wish to meet her within the year. The, I concluded with a common ending phrase.
(b): Assessment
My learning goals for weeks 4 and 5 were to wrap up on greetings and to begin Identity-related topics such as self-identification and identifying those of others, primarily friends and family members.
For greetings, I did two units sourced from the Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Education. And for Identity, I finished a unit from Let's learn Indonesian, and begun a unit from the Indonesian Ministry of Culture and Education. On top of that, I watched numerous videos on the internet. Some related to the topics at hand, but others talked about culture and vernal life in Indonesia. This allowed me to work on my listening and interpreting skills.
From the written material, I covered: 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; and Writing -- to write a simple, informal email.
Moreover, for self-introduction, I covered: 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; and Writing -- to write some descriptions of people / places.
Lastly, I have begun working on identifying family members -- family tree. My objectives for this task were: Identify the names of family members; give and ask for identity information; and introduce family members.
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