lunedì 10 dicembre 2007

PLE: my personal learning environment!


Hi girls!!!
I’m really sorry because I’m in late, but I was a little ill these days and, at the same time, I worked. Yes…I also work in a shop during the weekend and in this period It is a little bit difficult to have free time…Christmas time is the most busy and confused period of the year if you work in a shop!!! Ok….that’s all, Now I begin to speak about the activity!!!
Naturally, I could not download Free mind, because without Adsl ( I don’t have it at home) it was needed more or less one hour and a half…I think that it’s too much! So, first of all I thought about my personal learning experience and the best means that I use to improve my English. Then, I divided them into four categories, which are: people, places, experiences and tools.

PEOPLE:
- classmates;
- my English family, where I lived for a month when I was 17;
- friends I knew during the experiences in England, Germany and Spain;
- teachers;
- tandem friends;

PLACES:
- University;
- School;
- Cinema;
- Station and all public spaces where I can meet people ( it often happens that tourists, or I when I was abroad, ask for information);

EXPERIENCES:
- Working (in a city where there are often tourists);
- Travelling;
- Knowing people from all over the world (sometimes during the holidays) and using English language to communicate;


TOOLS:
- Newspaper and magazines ( online too)
- Radio and TV (songs, English radio stations, TV channels,
- Internet (news, delicious, bloglines…)
- Books
- Podcasts


Learning a language is a difficult and long process that involves not only the school years and the academic part of our life and its activity, but it is something that goes beyond the boundaries of books or rules, even if they are important. This is the reason because I’ve mentioned a lot of experiences or activity which are connected with people, friends and journeys. This is because I think that learning a language is a human experience, made thanks and through others people, who we know.

I hope that I'll be able to go to the University, when I will be fine, and download the site in order to do a better work. Sorry....!!

Bye Bye...

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