General Feedback - Sheffield Group

FEEDBACK
SHEFFIELD GROUP SEPTEMBER 2008


SELF STUDY

· Can take any form (blog, notebook, folder)
· Need to show evidence of at least 3 hours work per day (60 hours for the course) above and beyond the homework set. Homework is for all the class – self study is for you!
· Show analysis of language problems and that the exercises you have chosen are an attempt to address these.
· Reflection of study patterns, class activities and resources used.
· Show an attempt to prepare for your Masters study – book lists, reading summaries, academic word lists.
· Recording & Revising Vocabulary (See Initiative – Learner Training)


PRESENTATIONS

General Impressions:
· Sometimes the presentations had a clearer structure than the accompanying essay – why?
· Poorly organised presentations tended to be the longest. – why?

Areas to watch:
· Reading from the computer monitor or the screen
· Body language, Eye contact, What to do with your hands.
· Referring to your slides when answering a question – you should know it – besides in a presentation you are TELLING the information
· Overviews that tell us nothing

Areas to work on:
· Collocation
· Chunking
· Consonant clusters
· Word endings – Grammar Problem? Pronunciation Problem? Or both?

Persistent Errors:
1. It will be existing for a long time.
2. The internet speed up the process.
3. How we can forbid the damage to the environment?
4. The impact on pharmaceutical field has been great.
5. The information technology has seen the greatest improvement.
6. That’s all I can talk about.
7. I end up my presentation
8. They have more choice to choose.
9. The using of traditional medicine.
10. Here are some examples about new developments/ This is an answer of the problem.

ESSAYS


· Essay structure

Good essays identified general effects that were relevant to their subject area in the first part of the essay then discussed them with specific reference to their subject area, supported with examples, in the second part.

Weak Essays tended to talk about Globalization in broad terms in the first part and their subject area in the second as if they were two separate essays.

· What do your quotations illustrate?
· Plagiarism
· Sentence Structure obscuring meaning
· Vague vocabulary – e.g. get