Since before English 4 had started, I have been trying to improve my skills, all of them, because
it has been an issue for me to improve my grades since we started in the first semester, so,
firstly I started to try to stop my anxiety using one of the effective strategies; relaxation,
because I used to start to study after work, and that does not work too much, because the lack
of concentration was evident, because of the tiring or something else, so I stop to study after
work as a way to study more relaxed and focused. Another strategy I used was one of the
social strategies; cooperation with peers who have proficient use of the language, asking them
about how they study, how they do to improve their skills, or even I have asked some teachers
for advice, for example about how to improve my pronunciation, which has been one of my
main weaknesses, in addition, another skill that has been an issue to me is listening, which
always caused troubles because of my low understanding, which I also have improved a lot in
this semester based on my last grade, and the strategy that I have used the most is a
metacognitive strategies; self-monitoring and self-monitoring, which I think have helped me
the most, because it has been a way to realize about my real level of English and monitoring it,
about, which have to be my following areas to improve in order to reach a new level of
improvement of my skills,
Sergio Verdugo
English 4 S2