A Reflective Essay towards ENG-480 Experiences' Presentation!

As a beginning of class, everyone seemed to be ready for their presentations. Some were excited and some were confident. Most stories were in same streamline, but various presentation methods. In order to respond my class observation, I intend to divide the main classification into two groups, presentation method and presentation content.

Most presenting methods were in line of voices recording. Using this method was a good technique for those people who didn’t want to speak up in front of class. They had a time to prepare their contexts without any pressure from classmates. When they forgot their scripts, they could bring it up and read something inside through their voices recorder. When they stuck with some sentences or words, they could stop their stuffs in order to recall some contexts, moreover, to read their scripts as a scuba diver’s regulator. Without regulator, scuba diver may die at 50 meters deep underneath the sea. Actually, I didn’t agree with those people who used this trick. It was not a good way to express real abilities in English. Anyway, I realize that Contemporary English Language and Communication aims to encourage and increase students’ English abilities in contemporary world, but in a real world, those students may have no chance to stop and read theirs scripts. I accept that students’ abilities in ENG-480 are different. I don’t blame those people who used this strategy, just want to suggest them, expressing something on a stage is better than hiding behind a curtain. For doing that, no one will laugh at you; they will admire and please you because of your bravery. This visible force will push on you for being real Englishers, definitely. For other methods, there were front class live presentations by using visual media, power points and videos, except, only one group which simulated themselves as a seminar in English learning strategies.

A presentation I liked most is Natsuda and her partner, sorry for my memory lapse on her partner’s name. A way they used to call classmates’ attentions was very creative and effective, sang a song of inspirations.

All presenting contents were similar. Students presented their attitudes toward English experiences in term of positive/negative attitude, relationship between them and English and learning strategy. Contents were specified backward to their previous lives related to their English experiences. Truly, I couldn’t catch all classmates’ details because most of them used voices recording and those stuffs were not good qualities enough, for example, messy speeches, low bit rates and some weird vocabularies. For those who used live presentations, I also couldn’t catch all details. Most of them stood behind a computer desk and didn’t speak clearly. Some spoke very speedy without any breathing or blinking their eyes.

Overall image of this activity was very effective. Everyone had a chance to split their remembrances out to their classmates of what the factors influenced them to learn English in nowadays. By many reasons of our classmates could be our guidelines for improving our learning inspirations. Objectives of this activity could encourage students in order to don’t escape from the situations we had faced. Use those events as bullets and use nowadays of being as a gun to terminate your target, that is, A Liberal of Arts, program in English Bachelor’s Degree.