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An Effective Reflection Is

Artifacts

A good artifact is a portion or clip of an assignment. It needs to be carefully selected to provide evidence/proof that supports what you are saying in your reflection.

Your reflection will help you determine what that will be. It is a quest for quality. It will represent you academically and professionally, and have personal meaning. It can be written, audio, or video.

At the end, ask yourself if the artifacts best demonstrates your abilities and growth over time.

At the end of your reflection in each section, link or embed the assignment/artifact. If the assignment has multiple pages and seems to overwhelm the section, consider adding just the first page and offering to provide the rest upon request.

Instructions

Exploring Culture

In English, give a brief description of products and practices that helped you gain understanding of cultural perspectives. Remember not to make value judgments or comparisons of better/worse or right/wrong. Different is just different. You are talking about your growth of understanding.

Then, in a short paragraph write your reflection. Some questions that may help you process your reflections are: In what way did these products and practices help you better understand values and attitudes in the Hispanic culture as well as your own? How did these products and practices challenge your worldview? What challenges did these perspectives reveal to you? How did it cause you to work through a stereotype or misconception you had and cause you to view the world from a different perspective? Use specific examples.

Engaging in Communities

I recently started a job at an Elementary School as a reading tutor and I have a few students who are having some trouble reading in English because it is not their first language. I admire their ambition and their perseverance to learn another language. Since their first language is Spanish I am able to use my knowledge of Spanish to understand some of the areas that they struggle with, for example the sound the “e” makes in English versus Spanish.

Interpersonal Communication

I enjoyed the TalkAbroad discussions that I had this semester. I found myself a little bit nervous at first, but then as the conversation started I eased into it and was able to enjoy the conversation and learn about my partner. For both TalkAbroad sessions, I talked with the same partner and was able to learn about her and her life. Claudia was very nice to speak with and patient when I was having some difficulties or just needed some help understanding the discussion. I love being able to talk to people, so broadening the amount of people that I am able to converse with and connect with really makes me happy.

In English, give a very brief 3-4-line description of TalkAbroad and other interpersonal oral/audio activities, discussion board and other interpersonal writing/reading activities you completed this semester inside or outside of class for or related to your Spanish learning. (See Modes of Communication link for definition and examples).

Then, in a short paragraph or two, write a reflection that includes each type of the interpersonal (spontaneous, unplanned) communication activities: telecollaborative (TalkAbroad) conversations, discussion board posts, and any other interpersonal exchange.  Explain how you’ve grown with each assignment/activity. What was difficult and how did you overcome that difficulty? What did you excel at and why/how? What/how did you learn from it and would you do differently next time?