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| Increase in vocabulary size (4) | - Read articles about a particular topic and jot down the words learnt (1) - Read texts of different genres (especially the formal one) (1) - Write down some notes of what I have learned to enhance my understanding (1) - Read more English books and watch English movies, TV programmes (1) - Do related exercises (2) - Build up a vocabulary bank by the most frequently used words among native speakers; check these words and their synonyms (1) | 4/39 (10.3%) |
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| A full mastery of a word (2) | - Do related exercises (1) - Read newspapers and magazines (1) - Analyse the use of words (1) - Look up for a word in both dictionary and corpus (1) | 2/39 (5.1%) | ||
| Linking words (1) | - Read book reference and finish follow-up exercises (1) - Read articles for usages of linking words (1) | 1/39 (2.6%) | ||
| Acquirement of a specific sort of vocabulary (e.g. food vocabulary) (1) | - Read and collect a list of useful academic terms (1) | 1/39 (2.6%) | ||
| Prepositions learning (10) | - do grammar exercises (6) - take notes on what have been read on grammar books (2) - read grammar books about prepositions’ usages (4) - read research articles about preposition (1) - check dictionary for words’ part of speech (to avoid mistakes arisen from words’ collocations) (1) - have quiz to check my understanding (1) - familiarize with the prepositions of place, directions, time etc. and apply them by, for example, describing a scene of a TV show (1) - identify preposition usage in online articles (1) - write diaries to apply preposition in use (1) - Identify the usage differences among similar prepositions (1) - Read books or newspapers, listen to songs, watch TV series (1) - Jot down different usage of prepositions in a log book and keep a systemic and analytical record (1) - Use corpus to analyze prepositions’ collocation patterns (1) - Write reflective essays on what I have learnt (1) | 10/64 (5.6%) | ||
| Grammar (50) | Auxiliary verbs (1) | - write diaries to apply preposition in use (1) - do grammar exercises (1) | 1/64 (1.6%) | 50/57 (87.7%) |
| Modal verbs (8) | - Read grammar books (5) - Do grammar exercises (7) - Collect some commonly used collocations with examples of their usages (1) - Find authentic examples in newspaper articles/magazines etc. and relevant information from online recourses and grammar books; analyse the usages and make up sentences using modal verbs (1) - Read articles to find authentic examples (2) - Ask teachers for advice (1) - Search and analyse the use of modal verbs in different types of texts (1) - Write essays using modal verbs and proof read it (1) | 8/64 (12.5%) | ||
| Correct use of sentence structure (4) | - read grammar books and do follow-up exercise (2) - read English newspapers, editorial or articles from magazines and jot down sentence patterns (3) - make up new sentences by using the sentence structures learned (1) - learn from book references about sentence pattern (1) | 4/64 (6.3%) |