Part1: During my second semester I believe I improved in all aspects of reading and writing. I came from an other country which no-one is speaking English and even if you find someone speak English they know only the basics. Even me I tried going to private lessons to learn English but even if learned new things I could not use them in my everyday life like I am doing right now. I learned new things for each unit and new format to do an assignment. For example this is my first time I hear about discourse communities never heard it before but after I learned what it means and where I can use it its much easier to explain someone something. The other thing I wanted to talk about is about the unit 2 articles. Since i said before i am not from united states I never knew America history those articles really helped understand it better and also those articles had many words I did not know about and now I know them and i use them in my daily life.

In my reading I improved my pronouncing. Whenever I read an article or something that I am interested in if I am alone I like to read it out loud I can understand it better and since the other language speak has more heavy Ā pronunciation there are some words that are hard to read, so while reading the articles we had for activities if I found a word that took my interest or I though I was saying it wrong I used google translator and google for definition and meanings.

Part2:To be honest my first piece i wanted to include in the final portfolio would be Micro-Activity#3 and Micro-Activity#7. I chose Micro-Activity#3 because not for a reasoning that I improved or it was hard its because that we shared our thoughts with other people. Usually I am shy and I do not speak to other people but with the online its much easier for me. I explained what was my discourse community was and I got so many replies that they were agreeing with me and with my thoughts. I always so scared speaking to other people because of my hobbies and my beliefs but now I feel so much brave after talking to my classmates.

My other option was Micro-Activity#7. The reason I chose this activity because I found it hard choosing on what format I want to do stuff. At first in my activity I wrote that I wanted to do a letter and I was confident with it. When I started writing the letter I found some difficulties and I changed for a speech. The same goes for the unit 3 assignment. We had to choose between a multimodal way to do our assignment we had so many option that was hard for me and I choose poster while i was doing the poster I was going to change to a presentation but this time I said no I will stay with my format I chose from the start. I want to fix this problem I have because I am doing it everywhere I can not choose stuff and after I may have regrets. The only thing good from this I believe is that I can adapt to other formats even if I regretted my decision.