SDLC 111 Bi-weekely Report #3

[Joora Baek]

• the task(s) you are working on; I listened to a Turkish pop-song named "Parçalandım" by Candan Erçetin to practice listening. I listened to the song several times and filled some words in the blanks on the lyric sheet.
• a statement of what you hoped to accomplish; I wanted to be able to differentiate the pronunciation and figure out which words fit in the sentences. I also wanted to study more vocabularies in the lyrics.
• the strategies (activities and resources) you used to work on your task(s); I used Youtube, and the lyrics of the song online.
• an evaluation of the effectiveness of your strategies; I've studied English listening by listening to pop-songs in English, and found it is effective, because pop-songs represent the recent language culture and use a lots of essential vocabularies and slangs that helped me to speak more like native speakers. I think I did a good job filling the blanks. It helped me to test my listening skill. Because the songs are in pretty fast beats, it was closer to the casual Turkish speaking speed. Thanks to that, I was able to practice listening fast speakers. 
• how you will build on what you have learned about the language; I will review the vocabularies that I learned to day and find more songs online and their lyrics to study listening and the vocabularies.
• how you will build on what you have learned about your strategies. I will keep listening different Turkish songs so that I can be used to the speed.