Assignment - FP

FINAL TASK FOR UNIT 14:

FINAL PROJECT

Student: Yesenia Idrobo

Group: 2019-02

Unit: Final project

The correct files name would be: 2019-02YIdrobo_FP

Assignment

As proposed by the contents in your referral material, section 1.1, reflection helps us learn about
how we learn and how we can change as a result of our learning. It can help our critical thinking
skills as we can more efficiently make connections between what we learn in school and what
we see in the world and in our everyday lives.

Reflection also helps us see how we grow and change over time-something that can be very
rewarding and motivating.

With that in mind write a reflective statement - a memo, letter or essay in which you honestly
assess your writing improvement and achievements over this course. For that you’ll have to
examine all tasks and assignments you have done along the course in order to demonstrate your
progress.

It is important, yet to understand that a reflective statement is not a simple summary of your
completed work; it is a meaningful opportunity to look into writing and thus to gain insights
about your academic development.

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To: Msc. Eugenia Fallabella

From: Vanesa Idrobo

Subject: Course on English for Academic Purposes

This reflection summarizes the knowledge and skills evidenced by this course period.

The afraid of all the students is the revision of their assignment, but it is essential to have
success as writers. This course has divided into fourteen chapters, each chapter has their
principal topic. The topic of unit 1 was “Planning a writing task”. The goal is to recognize,
select and generate ideas in order to produce a good writing. The assignment asked us to do a
summary of a text and complete a checklist with our own information. However, my tutor
encouraged me to work with a FCE book because I had committed some mistakes. The unit 2 “
Final task: Planning and Pre- Writing”. In this unit, I had learned how to discover the basic traits
of academic writing, to compare sources and bibliography. In unit 3,4 and 5 was about general
abilities of writing. I had learned how to recognize my own style in academic writing, analyzing
spelling rules of grammar and vocabulary, the correct use of typography and punctuation signs,
and defining and identifying sentences and paragraphs. In unit 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 focused on
academic writing on how to adapt the modality of the text, acquire the proper interactive
behavior and cite the resources. I had understood that academic writing is more formal than
other types of writing. In unit 11 and 12 based on improving my test. Before starting this
course, I had a test that proved me if I was able to write and communicate correctly in English.
So, the aim of these units was to correct my mistakes and develop a good academic writing. In
unit 13 was about academic speaking. The assignment asked me to develop a video about TEFL
and write a self-critique. The aim of it was to recognize our mistakes and how to improve it.
Finally, the unit 14 was about a compilation of all the units and contents. The most important of
this course is being original and not plagiarize.

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As you write it, answer the following questions:

1. Describe some tasks and assignments you have accomplished in this course, from week 1 to
week 14. Try to focus on the ones you find the most important and the skills such tasks
intended to promote.

The assignment of unit 10 asked me to write a well structured essay. It's intended to
promote the parts of an essay and the coherence and cohesion that a good essay has to
contain; analyzing and identifying the importance of academic writing.

The forum tasks of unit 3 and 4. The most important was to focus on grammar, punctuation
and vocabulary of academic writing

2. What did you learn that …

• Surprised you? I had learned many things, but the most important was how to use
academic writing correctly

• Challenged you? One thing that challenged me was the essay of unit 10. It was difficult,
but interesting at the same time.

3. Describe possible changes in strategies you are now able to deploy.

The use of academic vocabulary

A good punctuation

To argument and justify the texts

4. Would you have done anything differently if you could take this course again?

Yes, because if I will take this course again, I could improve my English and my
knowledge

5. What did you discover about yourself as a learner in this course?

That we have to be original, persistent and never give up.

6. How have comments from your peers and tutors helped you improve your writing and
academic competence?

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They helped me to be more persistent, more studious and mainly, they gave me more
techniques and strategies to be a better English teacher

7. How has your writing skill changed along the past 14 weeks?

It changes a lot, because I always use academic vocabulary.

8. How do your improvements in writing relate to your professional and academic goals?

It has a relationship between both because my principal aim was to improve my writing and
increase my vocabulary to communicate in a correct way.

9. Is there any piece of your work that best shows your development? Which one? Explain
your choice.

I think that all my activities and tasks because they have shown my development and my
improvement of my knowledge as a learner of this course.

10. You may include or describe parts of your writings to exhibit your progress.

According to Marais and Meier (2004:221) assert that the “teaching practice” represents
the range of experiences to which student teachers are exposed when they work in
classrooms and schools. Actually, there are many strategies, methods, and courses how help
educators to enhance their abilities and learning in the classroom. The actual assignment for
the teachers are to modify these strategies or methodologies inside the classroom. As the
text specified before teachers could enhance their learning and abilities by interrogating
their own teaching context. It is not fundamentally just to based on a specific strategy and
depend on this strategy expand all the task or activities because each student or group has
different performance. So, we have to modify teacher’s approaches from a diversity of
resources. We are researchers as teachers. Each class has a new experience with our
learners, and help us to comprehend in a better way our function. I would like to make
reference three principal points that will aid us to improve our teaching practice.
• Establishing good relations to improve our function as teachers
• Enhance the content of knowledge
• Enhancing our teaching practice

P.S: It was a pleasure to be your learner.