The document outlines the purpose and structure of a reflective learning blog for English language learners, emphasizing the importance of personal and informal writing. It provides guidelines for writing a profile and first post, as well as tips on crafting reflective journal entries. Key points include writing in the first person, expressing personal experiences, and focusing on the meaning of learning rather than perfection in grammar.

1. Reflective
Learning
Blog
English
language
learning
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2. What is it?
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4. In our English class...
• Why write a learning blog?
• For what purpose is it set?
• What will you get out of it?

5. Designing and setting up
our class blog

6. Our
Class
Blog
https://ellblogcas.wordpress.com

7. Write your profile
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What info to include?

8. 1. Write your own profile
2. When done, swap with a partner's profile.
Read it and take some notes on how to improve
it
3. Explain your partner your ideas for their profile
and listen to theirs for yours
4. Make the necessary changes in your profile
5. Now you're ready to publish it
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9. Write your first post

10. • Construct
• Debate
• Explain
• Describe
• feel
• Illustrate
• Agree /
disagree
• Believe
• Think
• Surprise
• Impress
• Learn
• consider
• experience
• wonder
• remember
• discover
• Satisfy
Arrange
alphabetically

11. What to write in the Reflective
Learning Journal?
• Reflective learning journal writing is very different from academic assignments
that you have been writing. It is a piece of flexible, personal, informal piece of
writing.
• If you are unsure about how to start, and how to write, don’t just scrabble
something in the journal, as writing something truly “reflective” is the most
important part of the process.
Source: Reflective Learning Journal Teacher Guide
http://www.polyu.edu.hk/learn-to-
learn/es/materials/Reflective%20Learning%20Journal%20(Teacher%20Guide).
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12. Do this worksheet

13. “how should I write it?”
5 tips on how to write a journal entry:
• Write in first person, as if you are writing
a letter to a friend
• There is no right or wrong answer for a
journal entry. Therefore, feel free to
express your ideas, opinion, and
thoughts
• Don’t hesitate to share your personal
experience if that helps to illustrate your
point
• Don’t limit yourself to words – diagrams
and pictures are ok too
• Don’t be too intimidated by English
rules. It’s okay to make minor
grammatical mistakes if that does not
interfere the transmission of ideas. So
don’t put too much thoughts about how
to write good English, instead spend
more effort on what to write
“I don’t know what to write!”
5 tips on what to write in a journal entry:
• Start off with whatever in your mind
about your learning experience in the
course
• Don’t just throw in events in
chronological order
• Describe the meaning of what you
learnt in the course. Also, your
reaction, feeling, opinions, views on
both the learning process and the
learnt material
• List the goods and bads, strengths and
weaknesses in the course of your
learning
• Make advice for yourself and make
plan for your learning in the near future
Source: Reflective Learning Journal Teacher Guide
http://www.polyu.edu.hk/learn-to-
learn/es/materials/Reflective%20Learning%20Journal%20(Teacher%20Guide).
doc

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