End of term self-assessment

ESP Vocabulary:
This task was the most difficult of all. It was pretty hard to learn new definitions that were in English. These definitions included many new words since Psychology has a lot of biology terms. On the other hand, new definitions that we learned in class helped me to learn Psychology in Lithuanian.

Writing summaries:

This task reminded me school. I never had problems writing something and that means that summaries weren’t very difficult task for me. As I use English language everyday, I easily caught the idea of text and was able to shorten it as summary required. Of course, I faced some problems while writing not in direct speech.

Online Exercises:

This type of exercises was one of the most amusing. It was really interesting to test our knowledge while filling up the blanks or writing empty gaps. Of course it wouldn’t be so interesting if we couldn’t communicate with other colleagues. It helped us to know each other.

Moodle tests:

This type of tests was helpful. We could test our skills and new definitions that we learned in class. I liked it because we could do that anytime time at home. Repeating definitions is very important since the more we repeat, the better we memorize it. Sadly, I was really frustrated and angry when I picked the right answer or filled correctly in the empty blank but the machine didn't counted it as a correct answer. So it was a bit demotivating...

Online listening in class:

Listening was always my strongest skill in English language. Listening to Internet speeches was interesting because subjects were very interesting and topical. Voices were very clear and easy to understand.

Traditional listening to cassettes:

It’s very familiar to online listening, maybe a bit more difficult. What I found difficult is British accent. Sometimes we could barely understand what is said. Moreover the sound of tape-recorder was a bit too loud.

Power point presentations:

This task took the most time. I found it interesting because I could choose the topic I wanted. Also it was interesting to speak to whole class and see their reaction. It was interesting to visit different Internet sites to gather more information because I learned new information that I even couldn’t find in Lithuanian language

Speaking impromptu:

I can’t say I didn’t like it. I love to speak, speaking improves all skills. You need to form grammatically good sentences in one second and that really shows your English language knowledge. At first when we started to do it was so hard because I haven’t spoken English like half a year and my tongue didn’t helped to speak, but later I recreated what I had learned earlier and it was piece of cake!

Short-talks:

This one was a bit more difficult, because we had to speak about different topics and learn how to describe various Psychology definitions in our words. I felt that others had problems too, but time passed and we improved our skills and most of us now can talk about it pretty fluent.