1.New things that you learnt from any of your HELP classes

week 2 - learning journal

1.     One New thing that you learnt from any of your HELP classes.
(For example, did you learn any new strategies? New phrases? Use them here and reflect on what you have learnt.)

I thought I learned same thing when I seat and listen the lecture. So I always wonder about my skill which I have learned from January to now. I learned the most about TOEFL at HELP, actually I didn’t like to learn TOEFL because I won’t apply to somewhere America university. But that time I was thinking like when I learn TOEFL it will be helpful because TOEIC is easier than TOEFL. But after when I took a TOEIC test, I thought the most helpful lecture is private tutoring. I know from January to now, i have learned many thing and i reflected my score. Nevertheless my tutoring was focusing on my test, and tutor also prepared all stuff for me. I am super week on listening part more than any others. despite reading also terrible , I don’t have time to prepare reading, we did focus on listening. The result was satisfying for me. it was not enough time but we did concentrate and got it. I know I have to study hard in class also. so I will try hard to catch whatever teacher gives us.

2. One New thing that you learnt from outside of HELP classes.
(For example, did you learn any new things about Hawaii? Did you learn any thing new from the Halloween fest? Did you learn any thing new from talking to your friends or anyone?)

To join Halloween in USA, it was really interesting and useful experience to me. Before I was in Korea, one of my wishes is spending time on Halloween and Christmas in warm country. One of my wishes, Halloween, came true. Especially the things which I liked the most are hung with my friends. Before we participated to join Waikiki festival, we met Chris’s house and prepared our costumes. Each other helped to make up scarier than normal life and spread fake blood. Also I had no Idea about the Halloween, I was researching the origin of Halloween. Briefly, Halloween was originated from the festival of exorcism. Old people believed after harvesting grain, devil will come to real world and steal their food which they harvested. Besides they are afraid to be bothered by devil.so they prepared food for devil, when devil visit their house and treat them nicely. So time passed, this kinds of story originate the Halloween when we wear ghost or devil costumes and visit neighbor house to do “trick or treating” game. I really recommend to others about both of aspects. Other countries history of holiday is really interesting and easy to access when I felt directly(join their festival) and searched information.

3. Are there any reading strategies in reading in your L1(first language)? (For this question, just write as much as you can. It does not have to be 200 words.)

In Korea, I can only think one way about the reading which we need to take test to enter the university. Actually we(high school student) needed “skill”. One is speed, two is accuracy. When you read and move?.we have time limit. We didn’t have time to enjoy the reading.


4. Do you have any questions about creating GOs so far? Anything you would like to know at this point?

From now, we just memorized concept of the conjunction. I want to know when I can use this concept, so I would like to do more activity with peers. I thought GO is more related to reading but until now I wonder it is really relate to reading. Because my reading teacher and I also think my most week part is reading. In reading class, I spend a lot of my time on improving my reading faster first. Also my question is that “creating GO” sound like writing but I can imagine how can we use GO concept to write something. Actually I am not visual learner, so I was worrying when I join this class. But before we did in spring term, I think I can do it right. First week also difficult to understand everything also second week, I had too much curious. Because my reading ability had never improved before, this curious is kind of suspection about my skill.

Week 1 - learning journal

1. One new thing that you learned in week 1 in any of your classes at HELP.

- i learned about each strategies of the subjects(reading, writing, GO and grammar). Teacher tried to explain why i had to follow these strategies and gave me an example. Also they let us play game related to each strategies. for example, Aurora's class we played "jeopardy" together. seperated 2 group we had competiton. it was super difficult but we had a strong sense of rivalry. so we were adding our knowlege and helped each other and finally our group was a winner. it really helped our team work and was enough me to access their aims which is understanding their lectures easily. also, i learn something from GO class which is my studying type. it was really similar as i think my own style. what i was surprised is subin's studying style. type "b" was really exactly subin's style that i have been thinking since i met subin. i can strongly recommend this test to another english learners. from the next week i will follow this test result and learn english from cynthia. which means i trust cynthia( :) ). this week is not that hard in class because teachers didn't want to make class boring. however, i don't know all of the classmates so i was just talking with my previous friends. Maybe new students felt a liitle bit lonely because continueing students are already closing each other. next week we should have gotten together and done it  harder than this week in class.

2. One new thing that you learned in week 1 outside of your HELP classes.

- Actually i didn't study hard this week.  i just went ala moana beach to play body board and as a same  day i did exercise at the UH gym. nevertheless i can say that i learned something from outside of  HELP. i like and want to go to beach to enjoy  Hawaii as much as i can stay in Hawaii,  because i know when i will go back to korea,i won't be able to live my life like in Hawaii. so i want to learn beach sports like surfing and bodyboard. also, i learn at the gym how to train myself ( i know it's not learning ;_; ). but it was true, i don't like sports until summer term, but now i like to go zumba and yoga. next week i and subin will join yoga class to make body flexibly. besides, i learned not only from sport but also studying from my friends. because i like to learn speaking not in class but outside. if i will not meet people outside of the class, my speaking would not be improved during 9 months. i don't think everyday i was playing not studying. when i go party and chat with my taiwan,japan,china and korea friends it is relating to learn and could be continuous studying because at least i use english with them.


3. Tell me what you think about language learning and other type of learning. is there difference?

yes i thinks there has difference. for instance, english(language learning)and math(other type of learning). think about them briefly, i can tell their difference. we can distribute either to need people who talk with or to no need people. if you want to learn language, it is easy way to speak language with foreigner. that is why people go to study abroad like me and us. on the other hand, other type of learning like math, you should do yourself. other people can't help your studying. also when you learn language, the only problem is your age. when you are young enough, it is easy to catch and learn language easily. because your brain is also young so easy to accept and remember language. however, when you are not young enough, it is really hard to accept and study another language. these kinds of survey are also existed.  whereas, math is more  your inborn ability. because when i was middle and high school student, in class math genius were existing. they also good at another subjects. so if you are not genius but young. you should try to study focus on "language". i think that these are evident differentiations between language learning and other types of learning.


4.   Why do we need learning strategies

i didn't learn exactly what is strategies, so i couldn't say we should learn about strategies. also i was confused between the strategies and the skill. in TOEIC test, the skill which i learned from my academy teacher was really helpful to me. because i don't need to read every sentence, just uses skill which is proved by statistic figures. however, the result after i read Cynthia's homework(yellow sheet) is that strategies also will be helpful to me and us. if i know about every strategies ( parentheses, appositive...etc) it is useful to me. but i wonder that even if i don't have time to read every article, how can i use that strategies to solve the problem. i had been learn many skill and strategies from my teacher, when i learn from them i felt like i will be a good reader and writer, but i couldn't use to trap timelimit. so i thought that first of all i have to learn  both how to read fast and to understand. then i will be able to use that strategies.