Self-Study

1. Analyse own language abilities and needs:

I feel that my weakest areas are vocabulary, reading and speaking. I find difficult in studying new words, I try to learn some words but by the time I don’t usually use that words, I forget them. Moreover, when my vocabulary is the weakest point, the reading, speaking and listening is not good enough but by listening people around me speak English everyday, my listening is not as bad as speaking and reading. I think there is one way to solve my weakness is try to read more books about the subject which I’m going to do in the university and try to find as many new words as possible.



2. TV/radio listening

I saw the movie about the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance in the website http://www.bbc.co.uk, that was an really big festival to remembrance the people who participated in the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. The programme gave me some of the clip that tell some story of the armies in that area. Some of them came through the really dangerous moment in their life to live but a lot of people were not lucky like that. I think that festival are really nice because it remind us in the people were died in the wars.




3. Academic vocabulary gap maker:

I went to the website http://nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/ awlgapmaker.htm and paste some academic texts in to the box and I get 1 paragraph like this:

Leadership in Organizations has a specific focus on managerial leadership in large organisations and is an attempt at bridging the gulf between academics and management practitioners. However, as each chapter begins with a list of learning objectives, the bias appears to tend towards a more academic audience (particularly students of the subject), rather than towards practising managers.

The author covers a broad survey of theory and research of leadership in formal organisations of the last 50 years, and though Yukl states that the book “focuses on the 20 per cent of literature that appeared to be the most relevant and informative”, he has provided an in-depth and comprehensive analysis and appraisal of that literature in a clear and moderately accessible language. From the first, introductory, chapter about the nature of leadership, Yukl writes what is essentially an academic text, but with a clarity accessible to a practising manager with a serious interest in the subject area.