Self-evaluation

In relation to the work that we have prepared and presented to the class, we can point out some ideas in order to evaluate ourselves and our presentation.

Regarding the speech, it would have been better to focus more on the public during some moments, that is to say, to interact with the people who were listening, trying to make our explanations closer to them, not just talking about some features, but trying to explain what we wanted to transmit in a more understandable way.

Concerning the schedule of the work, it has followed more or less a common structure taking into account all the grammatical, lexical, phonological, metrical and etymological characteristics. Moreover, we have added a part that we considered essential to be included, which is the reading of a piece of the fragment we have worked on, a premise that our teacher mentioned we had to do when he firstly explained in what this oral presentation was going to consist of. In our opinion, however, we should have concentrated a bit more our interest on developing the part related to phonology and, mainly, to the Great Vowel Shift, a phenomenon which is already present in the Prologue we were dealing with and that we just briefly commented.

The way in which we did the presentation was different from the vast majority of presentations exposed in class. According to our point of view, we were speaking in little interventions in order to not make people get bored too much, avoiding three longer static speeches and trying to give dynamism and a wider sense of group. This also helped us to catch the attention of the audience who got interested with these alternative changes.

In spite of being quite nervous, we think that our presentation was, at least, good, because we were able to structure it in a simple schedule easy to be followed and we tried to give as many examples as we could with the aim of providing the class with a practical approach of what was being explained.

To sum up, it is necessary to emphasize that we have done our best to show a good presentation, focusing our attention not only on making a complete work summarizing the most relevant and suitable features with regard to our text, but also on presenting in public these named characteristics in the most natural and confident way, although it is appropriated to say that our nerves were present most of the time. Finally, we hope it will be evaluated taking into account the effort and the interest put in its realization, as we have done in the rest of our group previous work.