Self-assessment of success in learning ESP

Writing a summary

Writing a summary is a new thing for me, it was quite hard at the beginning with it, but now it is definitely easer to write it for me.

Writing comprehension tests on module in Psychology.

Writing comprehension tests is not difficult for me as I guess for everyone if the person preparing for this type of work at home, I mean if the person is repeating and learning definitions before the classes.

Making Power Point presentation

I thought that it would be very difficult and stressful for me but I was surprised that I really enjoyed to present it to the listeners because I saw they were interested in my presentation and getting a new useful things as well.

Impromptu speaking in class

This type of work is quite interesting but also difficult thing for me, I think I should improve my speech, to speak more clearly and to be less nervous while speaking.

Performance in listening practice

I thought that listening practice would be easy, but now I see that listening is quite difficult and hard to improve, but I hope that I will do my best to do it.

Writing contributions to E-Portfolio (Weblog)

I enjoied that type of work, however I should improve my grammar to make less mistakes in my essays, which I should upload to my Weblog.

Learning ESP

ESP means English for Specific Purposes. It is not the same thing as we learned at school. English for Specific Purposes is more advanced but otherwise more exciting thing. Here are some ways how I am learning and improving it.

At the begining it was very hard to read ESP texts because of lots specific and professional words used there, so I took a coursebook "Introduction to Psychology" by Linda L. Davidoff from university's library and downloaded a Lithuanian-English dictionary to my laptop. Now if I can not understand any word or phrase I am just opening a coursebook or dictionary and figuring out what it means.

Moreover, the ESP classes helps me to improve my pronunciation and speech. I am trying not to miss lectures and prepare homework as well. Now I am feeling much more better than in the begining of a semester.

To sum up, I hope that in the near future my ESP will become much more better by using an above-named methods.


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Analytical summary of "Introduction to psychology"

Robert S. Feldman is the author of "Understanding psychology". In the first chapter called "Introduction to psychology" author explains what is psychology, what are the subfields of it, in what ranges psychologists works and what are the key issues and controversies of it.

In the first module called "Psychologists at work" the author writes about variety of fields of psychology, such as social, cognitive, evolutionary, etc. Moreover, Feldman emphasizes that after graduation psychologists are employed in a variety of ranges, so they can work in school, offices, social areas.

In the second module called "A science evolves: the past, the present, and the future" Robert S. Feldman writes about people, who became famous by their inventions in psychology, a place of women in this science and also about perspectives of psychology.

The third module "Psychology's key issues and controversies" is about the problems of psychology, issues and controversies such as free will versus determinism and so on. Author also writes how to distinguish the qualified psychologists from pseudopsychologists.

To sum up, these three modules gives a basic understanding about what psychology is and what essentials of this science reader must know.

Psychology of success

Nearly everyone right-minded person in the world wants to be happy and succeed. But everyone understands this definition on his own way. For one person to succeed in life means to buy a car and build a big house, for second - to get respect from his colleagues in the work. But does the feelings (love, sympathy) make any sense here? Let's see.

There are persons in the world, called workaholics. They spend bigger part of their lives trying to get a better social status, become a better specialists in their range. These people should pay more attention on their personal lives, because I think that money and social status are just imitation of success, surely there are things in the world, which are invaluable. These things are love, emotions, strong feelings, etc.

The main component of success is health. No one will be really succeed and happy without it. Person can be rich and provided, but without health he will not be happy, because some illnesses like AIDS, cancer are incurable.

As far as I am concerned, for a while I am giving the pas for studies and sport activities, because at that age I need to achieve a good results in university, and as far as it possible to become a better sportsman. In the future I hope that I will find an interesting highly-paid job, a person to create a family and to fall in love with. I hope that these things will make me feel comprehensively succeed.

Psychology of shopping

Shopping is an essential part of our everyday life. We do shopping nearly every day just because we need to cook something to eat at home, to wear new clothes because old ones are out of fashion, to buy a gift for friends birthday and so on. Let's contemplate some aspects of shopping.

First of all, TV is frequent mean of our freetime. As a result, we are influenced by it and majority of people are slaves of commercials and discounts. Most of those persons are making decisions based on advertisement slogans. In my opinion, people should decide either they need item or not by other criterions, such as quality, price and so on.

Second thing I want to mention is that a lot of people, and especially women, are doing shopping just because they have nothing to do more. In most cases of shopping woman do not need new clothes or perfumery, she is doing it because it is the best thing she could imagine how to spend her freetime.

All in all, I think that shopping plays an important role in our everyday life, but I certain that majority of us should become smarter and stop to believe in every advertisement we see around us.

My Future Profession

I have been studying psychology for a month and now I know what is psychology, what is it study about and what are the roots of it.

Firstly, psychology studies human behavior and mental processes.In my opinion, it is very interesting and could be useful in our everyday life.

Secondly, I could know more about myself while studying that, I mean I may know how to control my emotions, mind, even how to make right decisions in difficult situations.

Thirdly, psychologists used to help people solve their problems, to cure their mental illnesses.I thing I will like to help people,to make they feel better.

All in all, I can clearly state that I like that profession and hope that I will become a good psychologist.