English Language Challenges

My experience learning English at the university has been quite pleasant, since I have remembered many things that I had forgotten, although last year I had a teacher who taught classes in a very monotonous and boring way, but this year it has been much better, especially because of the teacher's way of teaching by making us interact and participate in the classes, it seems to me that I learn much easier that way.

The use of blogs seems to me a good way to practice the language and learn about new concepts and words in English, we can also know the interests of the other classmates by reading what they blog. We can also get to know ourselves better, since we ask ourselves questions about situations or topics that perhaps we would never have questioned ourselves before.

The aspects that I need to improve in my English are pronunciation and, above all, understanding when I listen. To improve the pronunciation, many times I enter the words in the translator and press the audio, so I can repeat the word pronouncing it correctly. On the other hand, regarding the second aspect that I mentioned, I could improve it by watching movies or listening to music in English but with subtitles, either in English or in Spanish, to understand what I hear.

Apart from English classes, I don't use this language much, only to blog, since I don't have contact with people who speak English, but many times when I watch tiktok, I see videos in English and I try to understand what they say.

Changes in my study program

 I am a Psychology student at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Chile and I will present the main changes that could or should be made.

Regarding the study plan, I consider that the subjects are fair and necessary, with the exception of the transversal ones, which are something extra where communication is worked on, which most of us already know and practice in each branch, so for me they are unnecessary and only add more academic load.

The academic load that we have is quite high, and I would like it to be reduced, or for there to be a greater organization between the teachers of the different subjects, so that we do not have so many evaluations in a row in a week or a day, in addition to being in face-to-face classes. free time to do work is less. The duration of the studies, 5 years, I would not change it, but I would add more practice, not just theory.

I think that the infrastructure is what most needs changes and fixes, since the faculty is not fully adapted to the face-to-face modality, there are inactive casinos, there are rooms that cannot be enabled because they are too small for so many students.

The use of technology is good, since we have online platforms such as ucursos, which help us to develop jobs and tests in a comfortable way.

Finally, the teaching methods used by teachers seem good to me, but they could improve by making the classes more didactic and interactive, although there are teachers who do it that way, there are others who only talk and show slides.