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What Are The Objectives Of SALL

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There were two goals of SALL intended to achieve, namely enhancing my lexical resources and improving my spontaneous speaking skill in English. Actually, before the SALL activity, I took IELTS Exam and realized my writing and speaking band score were just marginal, which do not guarantee the entrance of postgraduate study. The result alerted me that I needed to work harder on writing and speaking and I realized one of my major deficiencies in English was lacking sufficient vocabularies that can represent my ideas concisely. Therefore, the two methods and materials adopted by me in SALL were concentrated on speaking and vocabulary bank. The first material I used was news TV programme, which was mostly targeted on vocabulary. I watched “News at 7:30” broadcasted on TVB Pearl around three times a week. When I encountered some vocabularies displayed in the subtitle that I am not familiar with, I immediately jotted them …show more content…

The reflective cycle underscores in SALL also guided me to evaluate the effectiveness of each pair of method and material to review whether modifications should be made to achieve more. I also realized feedbacks from other people could allow me to identify my weaknesses and make improvements on my original goals. Undoubtedly, SALL has provided me a valuable experience to learn English in a more independent way because I am the only person to decide what to do in SALL. Nonetheless, the duration I put in SALL activities was just 15 hours, which was far too short to guarantee an improvement in IELTS writing and speaking. Therefore, I will continue to explore new methods to practice English independently to fulfill the IELTS requirement of postgraduate study. The end of SALL doesn’t mean the end of English learning; instead this marks a new beginning in my journey of learning

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