Language learning Journal “5”

This is the final learning language journal that I’m going to write. I thought a lot about what skills I should work on this week, because all the strategies I have, I’ve almost completed. I’ve decided to return to Barron’s Toefl book to learn more on grammar and reading skills. My purpose of reading this book again is because I want to improve some of the area of grammar that I’m weak in. I discovered that this book also includes reading skills, which will allow me to learn more about some structures in reading. The first thing I began on was grammar. I chose to learn more about word forms, which means nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Nouns are used to convey people and physical objects, verbs are used to convey actions or a state of the subject, adjectives describe nouns, adverbs modify adjectives, verbs and other adverbs. I felt that it helped me because it made the ideas clear for me about what the differences were between them, through the examples and exercises that the book had. After I was done with the grammar section, I moved to the reading section. I started to read more about how to find the definition of a word from its sentence. But when I read it, I didn’t find any new ideas or way to find the meaning of the word from the sentence, because I think that it depends on the sentence and the vocabulary that I know. In the end our assignment I wanted to be honest and tell you that I missed one strategy in the grammar skills, which is joining into learning support center to help me with my grammar skills, because at the time that was given to us to apply our language learning plan, there was a lot of other things to do which are: ICT journal, human development project, science project and midterm exams, so I didn’t have time to register in the learning support center. Another reason is that I felt that I learned a lot from the sites that I visited, so I didn’t think that it was really necessary to go learning support center.

Fatima Al-Menahli