After reviewing my presentation, I found that my learning direction has shifted from vocabulary composition to communication-based learning. My learning partner and I now are focusing on everyday conversation, including greeting, self-introduction, and dialogues in the restaurant. In order to understand basic sentence composition rules, I was asked to memorize some sentence frames. For example, the difference between agreement and disagreement, and also how to end a sentence with a question. Understanding the target culture, us very essential in target language learning. Since the Korean language borrows a certain amount of pronunciation and sentence composition rules, it is easier for me to refer back to my native language in order to understand the grammar. In order to improve my communicative competence, it is necessary for me to remember some common phrase to compose simple sentences.
In the rest of the semester, I would focus more on the communication and employ various methods including listening to Korean songs and watching cartoons with subtitles. I will also make an adjustment on my learning plan to set up a more detailed goal and demonstrate how I could achieve them.
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