However, according to assessment in the course. There are 4 compulsory assessments.
One of these tasks is writing academic case study, which includes several different aspects of issues to do it. For example, make interview with postgraduate student which has relative to my major and intensive reading about the topic. The second one of mandatory assessments is the presentation, which should I present my case study for 5min to 7min.
I feel excited and these assessments represent really challenging. I have passion to achieve this piece of work. On the other hand, I am afraid if I unable to manage the time and anxiety dominate me before the last few weeks …show more content…
One of the main positives of the course is the theme of the course is interesting because it has relation to our situation as international students. In addition, the tasks cover all aspect of academic skills. But, according to the dates to submit assessments I think is not suitable to make it in one week.
The both summative assessments and formative assessments help to improve all aspects of academic skills. In the other word, all tasks require reading a lot of articles which have relation to the main theme. Also, I will try to collect new vocabulary to be able to comprehend text easily. Turning to the other point about dates to submit assessments, in my opinion, student will be under stress during that week and maybe has effect on the quality of his work.
My main aim is to manage the timetable as possible as and working on my weak points in all aspects of English skills. For illustrate, every day, I am going to listen BBC broadcast and try to take notes when I am listening, read at least 1 articles of the reading list on MINERVA to help me writing academic case study task.
My second aim is participating actively in language zone workshops, especially Conversation club and book chat, as possible