Mandarin goal (trimester 1)

Mandarin Class Goal Setting in the first Trimester

Name: Sonja English Level : Intermediate Grade: 7

What is your difficulty in learning Mandarin?

At the moment I struggle with reading and writing but my speaking is above the expected level. So at the end of the year I aim to be able to read and write to the same ability as my peers.

Please list your goals in different areas:

Listening: To be able to recognize full-length sentences, not just phrases or specific vocabulary/words.

Oral: To be able to speak at an ‘advanced’ level, and beyond the current curriculum, for optimum learning, and to be able to use my knowledge in chats/conversations.

Reading: To be able to have the same reading ability as the rest of my peers, so I can catch up to the status of which they learned last year.

Character Writing: To be able to write from memory and move forward from the basic characters.

Classroom participation: I would like to be able to raise my hand more often to participate in class discussions more, but over all I’m quite happy at my performance though.

For achieving my goal, I would like to do:

Listening: To try and ask questions if I do not understand the teacher when speaking mandarin.

Oral: Try to speak in Mandarin all the time during class, for optimum learning.

Reading: I can study my ‘textbook’ more often as well as read basic mandarin stories.

Character Writing: I can start to shy away from the ‘pin-yin’ and instead write characters more frequently. I can also seek help from my peers.

Classroom participation: Raise my hand more?