Participants: Quyen Tran
Utku Hasbay
As an international student, each of us in the group has a problem
about English language since our native language is not English. We have been
realized that we still struggle each time writing an essay because there is
still something confusing us. And then when looking at LEO website, the topic “My
native language is not English” immediately caught our eyes. Each of us chose
the most confuse part in the topic to research more about and prepared for the
presentation in class. I was confused distinguish count and non-count nouns. On
the other hand, Utku had problem using transactions in an essay, so all sentences
seem to sound the same. After individually research about our own part, we made
our group in class and started organizing our group presentation.
Firstly, each of us would work on our own part. About me, I first
read the definitions of count and non-count nouns on LEO. I figured a lot out
but still got a little confused in general due to the format of LEO is a little
bit hard to read and organize every parts together in my mind. Therefore, I researched
some more websites on Google. The most useful website that I found is www.learnamericanenglishonline.com.
This website displays a lot of pictures and tables which is much easier for me
to see the differences between count and non-count nouns by looking at the
tables and example pictures. My mind was informed a lot after reading and
researching about the topic. I now can smoothly distinguish count and non-count
nouns, so that my writing skill would improve considerable.
About Utku, after we had discussed about the processes of our
work, I got the ideal how Utku organized his work. First, he started to write
his part of our group work. He used examples from LEO website to make his
statement more clear. His goal was putting emphasize on the importance of
transition words. How essays look like without them? What are their functions
in papers? Those were the couple questions that he tried to give answer on his
work.
When had finished working on our own part, we decided to put the
individual parts into one page in order to present our topic. As agreement,
Utku supposed to write the conclusion as I would write the introduction. We tried to
make the group presentation page looks seamless by using transactions. Since we
were done working on our group work, Utku and me assigned each other the parts
that we are going to present in front of the class and kept practicing at last.
In conclusion, after taking a look from the resources we had read,
we have got to know the way to fix those problems we had got. More important,
by group working, I not only figured out a lot about my problem but also
understand more about the problem the other group member got. This would help
me even improve more in writing skill. I
now know how to distinguish count and non-count nouns, and know how to avoid
making all sentences looking the same as well thanks to this helpful group
working.
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