Comment and evaluate my development

                         Evaluate And Comment

         During this course, i learned lots of skills for my language and academic learning, also my teacher correct and point out many of my mistakes, it was extremely important to me. Although when i starting this course i found many of the challenge of the study, not only for discuss the problem with my classmate, also for the contact with teacher. By the way, right now i am solve all of these questions and start enjoy this learning atmosphere.

1. Grammar : English Grammar is complex, making it difficult to remember, master and use logically.
2. Vocabulary: Is often a challenge, particularly when it comes to verb variations and understanding which tense should be used in various situations.
3. Slang and colloquialism: With the English language having such an extensive vocabulary and complicated grammar.
4. Pronunciation: Knowing how to pronounce words in English can be very difficult as it isn't always obvious.
5. Variations in English: The variations in the different forms of English can often be difficult to understand.
   

1. Developing a passion for learning English

2. Making the first change to one’s life

3. Making further changes to one’s life

                                   

                                                          solution of English

Comment progress and experience assessment

                          Comment of my progress

         Until now, i already did my preferred learning styles, my language learning goals and some strategies to support those goals, approach to recording about learning vocabulary, my own "Diigo" research and two listening text and comment.

                     Experience of the various assessment components

1. Formulating Statements of Intended Learning Outcomes – statements describing intentions about what students should know, understand, and be able to do with their knowledge when they graduate.
2. Developing or Selecting Assessment Measures – designing or selecting data gathering measures to assess whether or not our intended learning outcomes have been achieved.  Includes
3. Direct assessments – projects, products, papers/theses, exhibitions, performances, case studies, clinical evaluations, portfolios, interviews, and oral exams – which ask students to demonstrate what they know or can do with their knowledge.
4. Indirect assessments – self-report measures such as surveys – in which respondents share their perceptions about what graduates know or can do with their knowledge.
5. Creating Experiences Leading to Outcomes – ensuring that students have experiences both in and outside their courses that help them achieve the intended learning outcomes.
6. Discussing and Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning – using the results to improve individual student performance.  

                                       http://web2.uconn.edu/assessment/what/index.html

Listening Text And Comment

                                 Listening Text

                 "Why we should trust scientists"

Why you should listen?

   Noami Oreskes is a professor of the History of Science and an affiliated professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She received her PhD at Stanford in 1990 in the Graduate Special Program in Geological Research and History of Science.                       In her 2004 paper published in Science, "Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change,” Oreskes analysed nearly 1,000 scientific journals to directly assess the magnitude of scientific consensus around anthropogenic climate change. The paper was famously cited by Al Gore in his film An Inconvenient Truth and led Oreskes to testify in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.

      Oreskes is the co-author of the 2010 book Merchants of Doubt, which looks at how the tobacco industry attempted to cast doubt on the link between smoking and lung cancer, and the 2014 book The Collapse of Western Civilisation: A View from the Future, which looks back at the present from the year 2093. Both are written with Erik M. Conway.

                                                                     Comment

       First of all, i am agree with her, we need to understand the things trough the scientists and the need to explain us how they discovered a explain it. Our basis for trust in science is actually the same as our basis in trust in technology, and the same as our basis for trust in anything experience. Our trust in science should be based on evidence, and scientists have to become better communicators. They have to explain to us not just what they know but how they know it. We have to become better listeners.

Why we should trust scientists?

Listening text

                                Listening Text

                "Keep Your Goals To Yourself"

Why you should listen?

   Derek Sivers is best known as the founder of CD Baby. A professional musician since 1987, he started CD Baby by accident in 1998 when he was selling his own CD on his website, and friends asked if he could sell theirs, too. CD Baby was the largest seller of independent music on the web, with over $100M in sales for over 150,000 musician clients.

   In 2008, Sivers sold CD Baby to focus on his new ventures to benefit musicians, including his new company, MuckWork, where teams of efficient assistants help musicians do their "uncreative dirty work."

What others say?

“Derek Sivers is changing the way music is bought and sold. A musicians' savior. One of the last music-business folk heroes.” — Esquire

Comment

I agree with Derek Sivers about his argument that keeping your goals to yourself makes you more likely to achieve them. Sivers uses logos by explaining the experiment in which 163 participants were tested to see how long and how hard they would work towards their goals if they announced them vs if they didn't. The results proved his point, those who announced their goals on average working 12 minutes less than those who did. Although sometimes telling people your goals does help motivate you, Derek Sivers explains that this is caused by telling people them in a way that gives you no satisfaction, not allowing your mind to believe that your goal has already been achieved.

                             

                                                 Keep your goals to yourself

Listening text

                                 Listening text

                      "Why we laugh"

    

Why you should listen?

   As deputy director of the University College London’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Sophie Scott seeks out the neurological basis of communication, whether it’s speech or vocalised emotion.

   As a pioneering researcher in the science of laughter, she’s made some unexpected discoveries -- including that rats are ticklish, and that the one tactic that’s almost guaranteed to get someone to laugh is to show them someone else laughing. But as an occasional stand-up comedian with UCL’s Bright Club, she shows that she’s no slouch at getting laughs herself.

What others say?

   “For Scott, laughter is more than displaying amusement -- it's a primal way of showing people that we like them and want them to like us.” ” — CNN.com, October 15, 2013.

What i think?

I think laughter is like an emotional orgasm or a palpable release of stress. Laughter is like crying. It evokes a response but without context it doesn't have actionable meaning (other than what we project).Laughter is a response to humour, and it isn't innately positive, for example, racist and sexist jokes (demean people), insult comedy (can bully people), satire (humorous from the perspective of the author and the intended audience). But like any strong emotion, I believe it's important we consider the source of our response.

                                                                     

                                                            Why we laugh?