KEYs+Learning+Goals

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===Our major is called English Language, Translation, and Culture Studies. It is an integrated and complicated course, because it contains a lot of areas of social studies and language, such as sociolinguistics, culture and history. So it is a challenging for us and we must approach this goal step by step. In this course, we need a lot of professional skills and wide knowledge from research. So someone may be good at reading and speaking, someone else may be good at writing and listening, but we still need to learn more and more skills and accumulate more experiences in our study.=== ===However there are many grammatical mistakes when we are studying. So we also have weaknesses. It is not enough to get knowledge only from lectures, because that time is limited. We can get knowledge from anywhere, such as from daily life, communication with others, in the job or from our friends. Because our major is related to social realism, we need nore experiences to research and study on this course.=== ===At present, I think my weakest skill is grammar and the quality of my vocabulary. Grammar is very important in writing, translation and reading, especially in essays. Vocabulary is the other important aspect in English; a great deal of vocabulary is very good for communication and writing. So it is necessary to strengthen these weak skills.=== ===Another point is that we are used to believing tutors and books and we don't know how to think deeply and in which direction to think. Furthermore, we don't know how ask questions, which we think is related to critical thinking. If we don't think deeply, how can we have questions to ask? We need the motivation to study. Although the tutors are mainly responsible for our study, I think we ourselves are the most important successful factor in our study, so we need passion, energy and curiosity.=== ===Some subjects interest us very much, such as, learning culture, so we can try to involve ourselves in this society. Apart from this, we can join some activities to enrich our university life, such as, for instance, some voluntary organisations, interesting groups and women's clubs. All these things can help us work effectively, not only to practice English, but also to learn the culture in this new environment.=== ===To summarise, two years is a short time and I hope we can cherish the time, and use it all to study and enrich our lives, and acquire more useful skills. So our learning goal is very simple: to become a person with ability after two years and not to regret anything during that time.===