Reflective Essay on Improving Grammar and Vocabulary Skills

Reflective essay
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The main motive of participating in the International Foundation Programme is to develop my
academic skills on grammar and vocabulary that helps me to improve my English knowledge.
Thus for this, I am joining this undergraduate course with other students. This essay will reflect
the development areas of grammar and vocabulary scheme and also provide proper learning
techniques that help me to improve my skills on English knowledge. All this learning procedure
are achieved by me while doing the International Foundation Programme. This programme helps
me to focus on the areas that I have not fully established but eager to improve on that areas. The
appendices provide will be used as evidence and this will help me to improve the academic skills
in grammar and vocabulary.
Grammar means where the words are placed together to form a proper sentence while vocabulary
means the words that are used in a particular language (Akhlaghi, and Zareian, 2015). So if both
are not correct then anyone can face problem while speaking or writing a sentence. Thus my
main aim is to improve my skills in this two scheme and on improving it I will not face any
problem on English in the coming days. A phrasal verb is a type of verb that forms by a mixture
of the verb and an adverb or preposition or both of them and is mainly used in informal English
(Alqahtani, 2015). As a native of United Kingdom, I face problem to use proper verbs in a
sentence. Along with this, I have also faces problem in putting proper phrasal verbs in a
sentence. As per the evidence shown in Appendix A I have completed my task but somewhere I
put the wrong word in the blanks and for this I have to improve the verbs skill to write the proper
sentence without having any mistake. This is difficult for me as the verbs are of Latin origin.
Thus for improving in this area, I have to work on my grammar skill by seeing examples from
other textbooks or any other grammar related books. First of all, I have to understand about the
Latin verb and its use on a sentence and this helps me to improve my skills on this type of
grammar. Apart from this, I have to keep practicing on the implementation of this Latin verb in a
sentence (Baddeley, 2015). For practicing this I have seen many examples provided at the end of
a chapter and then imply it on another sort of sentences. This method are achieve by me while
doing the International Foundation Programme and from this, I have improved by Latin verb
skills.
As I have a problem in putting Latin verb to make a proper sentence and for this reason I have
also facing problem in doing phrasal verbs. In Appendix B where the student was asked to
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complete the sentence using phrasal verbs and here I have completed the task successfully but
many mistakes are done by me while putting the phrasal verbs in the sentences. The proper
evidence are placed on the Appendix B. Though phrasal verb is a part of vocabulary but are not
properly used in academic writing so many of the students along with me are not focused on it
throughout the whole course (Bishop, and Hsu, 2015). This causes a problem to all the students
along with me to do the task properly. Most of the phrasal verb I have used in the sentence given
in task is wrong and for this, I have to improve myself in this areas. Actually, I have a problem in
putting a Latin verb properly in a sentence and we know that phrasal verb is a mixture of verb
and adverb or preposition so it creates a problem to write properly a sentence using this type of
verb. Thus for improving my skill on phrasal verb, I have read many chapters of how to write
this verb properly on a sentence and also I am doing exercise after the end of every chapter
(Hoff, Quinn, and Giguere, 2018). This helps me to improve my phrasal verb skills and also this
International programme helped me to learn properly about the usage of phrasal verb in a
sentence. By this programme I have achieved a good knowledge about the using of phrasal verb
in a sentence and after improving in this area I will have a wider knowledge of vocabulary and
this also helps me to understand the language too (Leow, R.P., Grey, S., Marijuan, S. and
Moorman, C., 2014).
A collocation is a bunch of two or more words that are used together in English (Peters, and
Webb, 2018). Collocations are of two types one is strong collocation and the other one is weak
collocation. Strong collocations are those where the link between the two bunch of words are
quite restricted and fixed while weak collocations are those where a word can easily collocate
with other words (Seidenberg, and MacDonald, 2018). In this collocation vocabulary skill, I have
a weak knowledge so I also have to improve in this area. It is a combination of two words and it
is natural for an English speaker like me but I have faced some problem while completing my
task in Appendix C. In this exercise each word on the list have three different collocations and
we have to use these by changing the tense where it is necessary. Though becoming a United
Kingdom native I am good in collocation skills but I have to improve because in some cases I put
the wrong word while doing my work. The Appendix C is given on collocations skills but after
completing the task I have seen that I will do some common mistakes in the task. Thus to
improve my skill on this collocation type of vocabulary scheme I have learned collocation
writing from the grammar book and doing exercise after the end of each chapter (Verhagen, and
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