My Learning Plan
Learner Name: Lidia Amanuel
Semester: Fall 2019
Language: Ge’ez and secondarily Amharic
Course: SDLC 110 and 105
Where are you now? What can you do? What do you know?
Use the Levels of Competence document and the LinguaFolio® checklists to assess your current abilities in your language. For more information, see the SDLAP Wiki.
Amharic:
- Interpersonal Communication: Intermediate Low
- Interpretive Listening: Intermediate High
- Interpretive Reading: Novice High
- Presentational Speaking: Novice High
- Presentational Writing: Novice Mid
Ge’ez:
Much less proficient; I can only read it in the context of Church scriptures I have already reviewed. I can spot similar roots and cognates. I know the phonetic inventory. I can greet people in Ge’ez and listen to short poems and songs.
What is your ultimate goal? What is your goal for this semester?
What do you want to be able to do with this language at the end of this semester and in the future?
- My ultimate goal is to feel more comfortable reading and writing in Amharic through knowing the basic grammar concepts and expanding my vocabulary.
- In Ge’ez I want to learn about sentence structure and basic conventions of Ge’ez and expand my vocabulary.
What tasks will you complete and what activities will you do this semester to meet your goals? How will you document and evaluate your progress?
- I will use youtube videos and podcasts for listening.
- Create written responses to improve in writing.
- And read regular scripture and some health news reports.
- I will use the grammar books for amharic and dictionary for ge’ez to help me.
- My language partner will assess my speaking and listening and also grade my written responses.
- Interact with the people at the Ethiopian Church I attend on Sundays, communicate with my language partner in Amharic.
I have left room for flexibility in my learning plan due to the fact that I am starting with my learning partner a little later and I would like to see how his approach pans out first. So far, we have agreed on me reviewing class material outside of class alongside the 2 hours of instructional time. He is sending me important vocabulary words and grammar concepts as we go. Additionally, we have decided to conduct the class in Amharic unless there are any discrepancies to be cleared up to give me more exposure to listening to it. Additionally, I will be attending weekly services in Ge’ez in order to assist my exposure in Ge’ez. There are some resources online for spoken poetry in Ge’ez called Qinie that I will be using as well. Lastly, I will read parts of a story every other day in Ge’ez and Amharic then compose a summary in Amharic. Soon, my teacher will be giving me small compositions in Ge’ez as well. I have identified a dictionary that will help me with this that we have acquired.
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