SLO: Reflective Communicator
Artifact Description: Mandarin Padlet Assignments In my Mandarin class Ms.Wang will give us a word in Chinese and we have to learn how to use correctly in a sentence. Recently we learn the word 错(cuo). We have to write three sentences using that word but we have to use a verb before cuo. Before writing sentences using the new word we learned she will give us a sentences and we have to guess what the word means in English first. 我知道你在说什么但是我觉得你说错他了. In this sentence it means cuo is used as to misspeak. The verb used is 说(shuo) which means to speak, so using 说and错 together means to misspeak. Then we would reflect and read through together as a class. If we make a mistake then she’ll correct …show more content…
The first group we had stayed for about three weeks. I was partnered up with a girl named Rita. I was supposed to show her around and also take her to my classes. We did this so they can see how the American school system is. At first I was shy and so was she, but I became confident and started talking to her even though I thought my Mandarin was pretty terrible. We got along over the weeks and soon became great friends. Soon another group came, but this time they only stayed for about a week. I was partnered up with a boy named Jason. At first we we’re shy and didn’t talk to each other, but I remember being shy around Rita and then we became friends. So I sucked it up and talked to him. He didn’t talk a lot because he didn’t know English very well since he started learning it. But I assured him that his English was very good. Over the week we also became great friends. We still even contact each other from time to …show more content…
Even though it was hard talking to someone new, I was glad I did it. Overcoming my anxiety was very rewarding. This was a great way to make friends even though we kind of had a language barrier, but we overcame that barrier together. I was upset when they had to leave. But soon in the summer we will see them again because we’re taking a trip to China. This helped me with my communication skills. I was never good at communicating with other people. After communicating with people in a different language helped me overcome my fear and be more confident in talking with other people. Sometime I still get nervous talking, but not was nervous as before. I am glad I had this experience and I would like to do this