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SELF-REFLECTIVE ESSAY
"Reflection leads to growth of the individual – morally, personally, psychologically, and
emotionally, as well as cognitively". I think is very important to have a reflection about our
academic and personal growth because in this way we can have a better and clear idea of
what we are doing well and wrong so that we can correct our mistakes. For this reason, as
a student, I can say that I have learned a lot of useful things, during this first period I have
been interesting in classes because they have been a challenge for me, I am aware that I
have strengths and weaknesses and my job is to strengthen my weaknesses in order to
improve and be better.
I have identified some of my academic strengths which are writing skills, when I want to
express my ideas and thoughts it is much better for me to do it by writing in a piece of
paper. My memory skills are very good, it is not so hard to me to memorize some rules,
concepts and stuff that I need to remember in order to manage some topics. Another of
my strengths is my visual ability; I mean the way I learn is by visual, when I see mind maps,
diagrams, pictures and all things I can perceive with my sight is easier to get as much as
possible information in my brain and I can remember some specific details by observing
colorful images. Besides, there are also personal strengths that contribute to my learning
process like be concentrated on what I am doing or performance, to be patient when I do
not understand something and try to look for another accessible resources or seek for
extra-information, this also means my perseverance to try to acquire the knowledge I
need in my mind.
On the other hand, as anyone I have weaknesses, which are my speaking skills, sometimes
is a little bit more difficult for me to express my own ideas in an oral way. Also I have not
developed well my reading comprehension skills and my critical thinking, when I read
something about any topic it is not enough to read just once because it is so hard to
understand about what I have read and make an analysis of that. I am conscious that I
have not been practicing too much and I have not tried to improve this important skill.
One of the personal weaknesses I have is to be insecure of what I am able to do and this
sometimes affects my academic performance as well as my personal performance and I
definitely know I must change this in order to improve it.
I have been thinking on my learning stage, if I make a comparison between a couple
months ago and now, during the time I have been studying English there is a huge
difference because I have been working in all aspects I need to improve, I have been
perseverant to maintain my objective and go for it although, there are few times in which I
feel down and do not want to follow but at the end I prefer not to quit. The process of
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