Reflection

 Describe my interest in learning English especially writing

In my opinion, learning English is very important. What makes me interested to learn English is that English helps to enrich my knowledge in general. We can read a lot of articles or news in English. Besides, English is also very important if we want to go abroad to continue our study or to travel. When we are on a trip we don’t have to find a language translator.

In learning English, writing is one of the skills that we need to learn. Writing helps me to compose my thoughts and idea. Writing also helps me refine my ideas when give others feedback and it helps others give me feedback.

 My opinion on doing Project Based Learning and record it in my personal blog as portfolio

I think doing this Project Based Learning and record it in my personal blog as portfolio is a fun way to learn. The project isn’t really hard but still improve our writing skill. Posting our project to our personal blog is also easy and simple.

By posting my portfolio in my personal blog, I can get feedback from the others. On the other hand, I can give my feedback on my friend’s blog. So, we can learn in a fun way.

The advantages I get from doing the Project Based Learning

From project based learning that I did in this semester, I get many experiences. I find that learning English especially writing is not always boring. At first, I thought that my writing class would be so boring, but I was wrong. We don’t always write letters or messages, but a lot of things we can do.

I really think that all of our assignments that we got are fun to do. For example our diary project. I really enjoyed to write my diary in English. I also think that it’s so fun when we had to chat with a native speaker. Thanks to this project, I get many new friends from different countries. My other favourite task is to create a poster, because we can improve our writing while we’re having fun

Not only fun assignments that I got, I also know how to send formal messages for our teacher or lecturer and informal messages for my friends. I am so happy that I finally have my very first blog because of this project. Since we have to post our assignments in blog, now I can learn how to express my ideas or feelings through words.

Mention and describe the challenges of doing the Project Based Learning

Although the assignments were not really hard to do, sometimes I found some challenges while working on the assignments. The challenges that I found were different depending on every task I was working on. But, mostly I had difficulty in terms of grammar.

One of the challenges that I found was when I was working on my diary project. I checked my diary again and again because I was afraid if there is any grammar error. Beside that, when we had to chat with a native speaker, it was a little difficult for me to find the right person for the project. While I was working on my poster, I also confused to choose what kind of event and design that I need to make.

We can always ask the lecturer when we find some problems. I am also very grateful to have very kind friends who always help me, so I could finish all of my tasks. I also could get a lot of experience from every task that I did.

Give my feedback on how the instructor facilitates the process of Project Based Learning

Ms Devi always relaxed in her daily teaching, so the lessons do not feel too serious. If we find a problem, we can also ask her inside or outside the class. We also got various kinds of projects so we didn’t get bored and we could do the tasks with pleasure. Although we learned to write, we also learned to make poster and vlog that are new experiences for me.

During the class, she always explains all the material clearly. She also always appreciates our works, and it’s make me happy. Overall, I really enjoyed her class. Her class is like a healing from other classes that have many assignments and sometimes boring. Although sometimes I found some difficulties while doing my project especially vlog, I still love it.

Overall impression on doing Project Based Learning and whether I will continue recording my own portfolio in the future

My overall impression on doing Project Based Learning this semester is very fun.  At first I thought this writing class would be very boring. Apparently, this class is very fun and enjoyable because I can learn to write through various ways.

In my opinion, recording our project is a good idea. I can see my improvement from time to time through our blog. I can also get feedbacks from the others. I think, I will still record my portfolio in my blog in the future.