Initial reflection
In my initial reflection, I will be discussing my strengths, areas of improvement and the strategies that I found most helpful about my writing, reading, listening and speaking, and media. From the start of grade 10 to until now I have improved my abilities to write a strong communicative essay. An essay that speaks for itself. Good research notes and the ability to make strong thesis statement are my strengths. One of the assignments that I did for writing was the essay on “Canadian Military Participation.” In order to improve my writing for the essay, I composed different types of questions about my essay. I did enough research on those questions to give me a significant amount of information. Apart from taking…show more content… At the start, I was really bad in giving feedbacks to people but as I gave more feedbacks I really improved. This strategy helped me to progress in my listening and helped me to write decent feedbacks. Effective listening was one of my strength. I can improve my listening skills by looking at the speaker and maintaining an eye contact. The strategy that I would use for this could be to turn off all the distractions and turn my seat towards the person presenting and listen carefully to what they are saying. For speaking, we did a group presentation on a short story “The Jade Peony”. In order to improve my speaking, I rehearsed my parts by standing in front of the mirror and thinking that I was talking to the audience. This strategy helped me as in the beginning I mumbled a lot and forgot a lot of my parts. But as I rehearsed more I improved, and on the day of the presentation, I was confident while speaking. Good eye contact and loud voice were my strength. For the future presentations, I can improve my speaking by recording my presentation and listening to it. In that way, it will help me to know where I mumbled. While presenting I would use my voice and hands effectively to omit nervous gestures. Another speaking assignment was the introductory speech about yourself. In order to improve my speaking for the speech, I rehearsed it by recording my voice and listening to it again. That strategy helped me as I come to know where I was unclear. To improve my speaking, I should write a little paragraph twice a week and read it in front of the mirror. This strategy will help me to improve my pronunciation and increase my confidence. I would also look at the feedbacks that my classmates gave me and try to adapt them. Another way I can improve my speaking while presenting is to grab attention at the beginning and close it with a dynamic
