My English learning goal and strategies

        My English language is very awful. The reasons are below.
1. I don’t spend time to study (especially at home).

2. I don’t have reading habit so I’m lack of vocabularies.

        Therefore, my goals are improving those two points.

Goal

1.      Spend time to study

2.      More readings

Strategies

        First, the atmosphere is the main aspect to maintain my motivation to study. Staying at home can stop my motivation to study. There are too many things can entice me. Such as bed, snacks, TV and the most evil things----Computer!!!! Those things make me can’t pay attention on my study. However, if I change the environment to a quiet and many people doing the same things as me, nothing can entice me anymore because the atmosphere become hard working. I discovered if my result was awful and comparing with others, I couldn’t accept it. I will start to chase up my study harder. For another example, my friend starting to do some exercise and make their bodies look good. Then, I started to compare mine with them. I started to think I can’t be fat anymore and I should chase them up. I can’t be far behind. Then, I started to do exercise until I leave my home country. From this example, it can explain the atmosphere able to change me and gain the motivation to do something which others are doing. Therefore, choosing library will be a perfect choice for me to gain motivation to study and reading about few hours after school every day. 

Which Learning Style Fit for Me?

Today I have done an interesting quiz which able to check which type of learning style is fit for yourselves. The result shows I belong to the one of Visual-Spatial. When I saw it, it seems like true. I love to view and drawing any things which is beautiful. However I thought again and again. When I was learning to draw, I was using the scale, logic and theories to line out the shape or painting on the paper basically. Those skills were learnt from my experiences and mostly from other’s opinions. Therefore I’m large extent disagree the result. I suppose I‘m belonging to the one of Logical-Mathematical.
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Linguistic        25%

Logical-Mathematical     69%

Visual-Spatial                 75%

Intrapersonal           38%

Interpersonal   38%

Musical    31%

Bodily-Kinesthetic  50%

Naturalistic      42%

VAK survey result: Visual-Saptial

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Visual-Spatial

Visual-spatial intelligence allows you to see and modify things in your mind. This kind of understanding of the visual world -- and its relation to physical items -- is valuable in solving spatial problems, designing, and doing crafts.

Sample activities:

• Use art projects to create representations of the content you are learning.
• Draw related images next to your notes -- along with arrows between ideas -- to create connection and reference points.
• Organize with color. Use different-colored highlighters, paper, index cards, folders, or tabs to create a visual system for finding things and grouping topics.
• Visualize your topic. When you are learning something new, imagine what it looks like.

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Those skills may help me to organize the information efficiently. However it can’t help me memorize the knowledge well. Most of the important information was recorded by words. They are not pictures or graphic and they couldn’t save in my mind well. Therefore visual-spatial couldn’t help my memorizing well. In this situation, using logic and theory can help me to reckon the truth or result easily. That helps me able to memorise lesser information to understand the knowledge how it works. Just like mathematics, understanding the formulas and memorize the formulas are very different. Most of the students who are in Asia, just remember the formula in their mind. They couldn’t solve the questions if the patterns were changed. They need to remember different way to solve each question’s patterns. However when you understood how did the formulas work, you don’t need to worry about the questions’ patterns. Even though the pattern was changed, then you can still reckon the answer well. Therefore logical-mathematical can help me understanding the knowledge and solving my weakness--- memorizing.

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Logical-Mathematical [<--------I suppose to learn with this style :) ]

Logical-mathematical intelligence is about understanding complex problems and conceptualizing relationships between symbols, processes, and actions.

This type of intelligence asks questions, finds solutions, and reflects on the problem-solving process.

Sample activities:

• Think about what you are trying to learn as a puzzle or a formula.
• Ask questions, and allow yourself to experiment with your own hypotheses to find solutions or new answers.
• Concentrate on symbols, designs, and words to bridge mathematical and verbal logic.
• Create an outline to understand your subject step by step. Doing so will allow you to stay organized and track what you're learning in a logical sequence.