Week 3 Language Learning Challenge Draft Proposal (2)
My Challenge
I am studying Chinese
at an intermediate level since that I have been studying this language for 3
years, however, I still have not managed to find an effective way to memorise
the given vocabulary. I have noticed throughout the course of learning Chinese at
UQ that I could not retain the knowledge of the Chinese characters that I have
studied. Even if I was able to ace the quizzes, I forget how to write it even
after a week has passed. For this reason, and for reasons of obtaining a good
grade for this course, I am heavily motivated to complete this blog with my
utmost determination.
My Learning goal
The goal for me is to
memorise the quizzed vocabulary, which is around 200 new Chinese by the end of
the 6 week period. Not only this, I will be challenging myself to be able to
retain the knowledge of the memorised words through the strategies outlined
further below. By memorising these words effectively, I can achieve my ultimate
goal of acing the weekly quizzes every week.
My Learning Styles and Strategies
During the
lecture/tutorial time in the SLAT2002 class, there was an activity given to us
which evaluates our learning styles. Through that activity, I wasn’t surprised
to see that I was a visual learner as I love to take a lot of notes, draw
diagrams, making summaries, copying down information from the board etc. I was
however a little surprised to see that I had traits of a kinaesthetic learner
too. This is due to the fact that I believe studying in study groups, doing
role-plays, and studying in short bursts with a lot of breaks are all effective
ways of studying for me as well.
Through knowing this,
the strategies I am determined to use include; not studying alone, taking notes
of Chinese characters and an easier way to learn them, using the flashcard function
from the chosen technology, and taking short breaks in between long periods of
study.
Through writing this,
I believe that these methods could help not only with my Language Learning
Challenge, but possibly with other content from other courses.
The Technologies I Am Going to Test
Through studying
Japanese as a major, I have found many apps that were specifically great for
learning Japanese. As for Chinese, I cannot say that I have found an app yet
other than the online dictionary ‘Pleco’. I have mainly used Pleco to assist me
in my studies, but I have never used it for helping me with memorising the
Chinese characters. I have used Quizlet back when I was studying Japanese, the
flash cards had helped me through the memorisation process, and that’s why I
decided on using this. This is what I have as for now, I will continue to look
upon other apps that are recommended.
My plan:
At the moment, my plan
is to break up the 200 Chinese characters that I will be learning into 6 weeks,
therefore leaving me with around 30-35 Chinese characters a week.
Note: The Chinese
characters I am quizzed on weekly from CHIN3020 is not always the same amount,
that is why I cannot have a set amount of characters I must learn every week. Also, the 30-35
Chinese characters will coincide with that week’s quiz from CHIN3020.
I will then use
Quizlet for its flashcard functions and memorise to the best of my ability the
30-35 Chinese characters for the given week. The efficacy of this app will be
assessed through my evaluation approach.
My Evaluation Approach
The evaluation process
consists of two steps. Firstly, I will receive my marks from the quizzes in my
Chinese course. Based on the marks I receive from my tutor, I will know which
words/Chinese characters I have written down correctly. The second way I will
evaluate my approach will be based on my own tests. Although I will be unable
to do a pre-test, I will be doing a post-test on myself on the day of getting
my quiz results back – for the past week; this is because, on the day we do a
quiz, we get the results of the previous quiz. For example, the day of doing
quiz (week 2), I will get my results from quiz (week 1); therefore, my quiz
(week 1) will be my pre-test and on that same day I will do my post-test of
quiz (week 1).
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