English course review and self-evaluation

 

Learning english at university, has been a pretty good experience, because I think it is a really comfortably place to learn, by helping each other practicing a not cotidian language. I think, zoom classes are not that fun to learn, but it has a big advantage which is the fact that I don’t have to travel to Santiago, that is really good to me, because travelling that much is really exhausting and expensive ;(.

I don’t like that much writing blogs, is my first time, i just think that is less fun that talking with others in person, but a good thing is that it is very helpful with the writing . That’s why sometimes to improve my english level and when I don’t want anyone to know what I am talking about, I speak in English with my biggest sister, it is a really good method if you want to say something secret and you don’t want people to listen.

I think I still have to improve my English, in a grammatical way, it is a little complicated and sometimes when i’m talking nobody understand it. Besides that, I need to learn new vocabulary, i think that’s one of the things we all need, because we are not into a place where everybody speak English, so we don’t need to search for that new vocabulary, but one thing that is very helpful for vocabulary is watching movies in English with subtitles!

Changes to my study programme

I’m still studying to get my undergraduate degree in antropology with a mention in archeology. When i first decided to study in university of Chile one of the things that make me chose that place to study was the curriculum mesh, i found it really entertaining and i defenely wanted to be in a career like that, but while i’m studying i think there’s a few things i’ll like to change.

The first thing i would like to do would be to put more practical bouquets in the mesh. I think that to get close to the discipline and above all if you are recently geting into universitary world, puting something practical could make us getting involve quickly in this área of study.

I will also like to change some teaching methods, almost all the teachers always do the same to teach, wich is just making us read long books and then have a test, but a little change in the methodology could make students get to understand better the dense course contents.

Another thing FACSO (faculty of social science) need to change urgently, is the infraestructure and the access to technology to the students. The building is to old and the classsrooms are not equipped to the amount of people that need to be there. And it would be awesome if there could be and implementation of technology into the way of teaching a social science!!