Learning Log

[Becky Walker]

Languages have not always come easily to me. Notoriously, my strengths lie in conversation, not reading and writing. Though I have now taken Arabic for a semester, I am just progressing onto the past tense. However, I am optimistic about Farsi, simply because I will be able to dictate how I learn it, as opposed to having a full class instruction which molds to the masses.According to the FIRE model for learning, I am a balance between an insightful and rationale learner. My responses actually were exclusively a balance of those two, as the factual and evaluative remained blank. Essentially, my translation of this, is that I like to do things my way--which is again why I am hopeful about the self-directed foundation for this course.The challenge for me this semester will be finding a way to include the factual learning style into my preferred learning style, as I do acknowledge its importance. There are many components of a language that are as they are, they cannot be changed simply due to my willing them to be more abstract. Thus I will constantly have to remind myself that this is a learning process not only to learn a language, but reteach myself alternative ways of learning.