One
of the goals that I have set for my grammar and reading course is to learn new
lessons and to develop the skills that I possess as well as new ones that I can
maximize when it comes to grammar and reading. Another is to be able to apply
the lessons and skills that I have learned from this course in fun and
interesting ways such as, through sharing my personal insights in class
discussions and making a creative project about grammar or reading. Lastly, is
to be able to assess and see the progress and development that I have made
throughout the entire semester. Fortunately, I was able to achieve all the
goals that I have mentioned above. So far, I have learned a lot of lessons and
developed skills that I can surely use in different aspects which involve
grammar and reading. I was also able to apply the lessons that I have learned
from grammar and reading in many ways. By making this portfolio itself, I am
able to see the progress and development that I have made in RVLC.
The accomplishments that I have made in this class which I
am most proud of is learning new lessons and reviewing the lessons that I am
familiar with but somehow I have already forgotten about such as the
subject-verb agreement. I consider these as the accomplishments that I am most proud
of because I know that the lessons that I learned would be of great of help to
me, especially in the future. For instance, I can use the lessons and skills
that I learned about pragmatics in writing essays, constructing sentences, or
simply in conversing with other people.
I think that I still need to improve my reading skills
because I tend to read really slow at times. There are also instances wherein I
do not understand or completely forget everything that I just read. For that
reason, I will practice reading through skimming and scanning so that I will
get used to reading fast and so that I can eventually learn to take up and
comprehend the things that I read.
While I was in the process of completing this portfolio,
one of the things that I learned about grammar, mechanics, word choice, and
reading is that I should remember to use correct grammar and be very particular
with my choice of words because it will have a huge impact on the construction
of my sentences. I also learned how to apply different transitional devices and
how to avoid common language errors such as fragments.
Completing this portfolio was not that difficult for me; in
fact, it was actually quite fun because I was able to express my ideas and
experiences in my grammar and reading course. Maybe choosing words is one of
the difficulties that I encountered as I was completing this portfolio because
I wanted to attain coherence with my choice of words without being too wordy or
without creating run-on sentences. It was also a bit difficult to construct grammatically
and logically correct sentences because I have become a grammar nazi from my
experience of making my language video with my group mates. I dealt with these
difficulties by recalling and applying the lessons that I have learned about
grammar and reading in this portfolio.
What I can say about the process of keeping a language
portfolio is that it is very useful and it is fun and interesting to do as
well. Although it may take some time and effort, I believe that keeping a
language portfolio would be able to show how much a student has learned and how
much he or she has developed. By creating this language portfolio, I was able
to utilize most of the lessons that I have learned in grammar and reading.
