My Personal Experience with Reading and Writing
“Limits of my language mean the limits of my world” Ludwig Wittergurtain.
Writing and reading are two nessesary skills that I need while I am learning a new language. After I moved to the US I started to realize that speaking basic English is not enough to be successful. I did well in my first job interview using my speaking skills – I got a job! But in the first day of work I understood that I would have to change my mind from “I really want to improve my English” to “ I really need to improve my English”. Participaiting in English classes helps me with my struggles in reading and writing.
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My English level at that time was not very good, but my previous medical experience helped me pass a four month course and get a job. After a couple of days working in my new position, my superviser realized that my co-workers were helping me to write notes to complete the charts for the patients who had come because of an emergency. This job required me to improve my grammar in a short period of time.
I started the free GED program. This course was my first experience in participating in an English class and it was amazing. Earning a GED sertificate give me a lot of self-confidence to continue my education. In ENF class I am still working to correct my awkward sentence structure when I write. My first essay draft I rewrote five times. I was having a problem with arranging words in the way one speaks in
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I have started being able to work with less stress without bothering my co-workers to help me in writing professional notes. My job has become more fun. I am also able to help my son with school homework. Finally, I had developed new good habits. As I have learned a new vocabulary I have started to like to read books in English instead of watching online TV in my first language . In ENF class the teacher likes to divide the students in groups so they can work together .They show their writings by reading them to each other and asking questions. These exercises help me improve my communication skills . I started fill more comfortable in my conversation with Americans and I have made new friends. I found this quote by Amy Chua in my text book wich now reflects the way I feel : “Nothing’s fun until you are good at it”.(ENF 1 –
others, and I also could read and write some relatively complex articles, which gave me a
Finally, the experienced you faced in life are the only ones who make you improve in life. These three experiences have made me more powerful, more secure of my self. Now I’m in 12th grade and I have learn more and a better English, is not perfect, but, I understand more then before, and I can write better then in 8th and 9th grade, everything thanks to the friends who help me out, the teachers and my motive to make it possible, ignoring all the ignorant people who always have to think on you. I have learned that in this country for be someone is important to learn and speak English, but you always have to be positive and make that come true. My goal now is to speak, read, write, and understand more by putting more of my part so I can defend my self from everything.
... effectively convey thoughts and ideas. These skills will be beneficial in any job an individual obtains after college. For example, a doctor would benefit greatly from a foreign language class. Many intercity hospitals cater to minorities that may only speak their native languages. If a physician were able to communicate with foreign patients it would make their job much easier and the patients more comfortable. English courses that develop writing skills will truly benefit all individuals. Communicating thoughts through writing will aid success in any field. Even blue-collar labor workers would benefit by having the knowledge of expressing concerns through a letter to a superior. While taking these courses one may not see how it will benefit them in the future. However, at some point one will draw from the knowledge or experience to assist them in their careers.
...dless of what I am trying to accomplish. I feel that I am much better now, in persuading someone through my writings; which would definitely come in handy in the future. The responsibility I have gained during this experience is incredible and has taught me to be a much more organized person. During this semester I was taught a process of how to write a paper and organize it. I found that all of these responsibilities have made me realize that I could definitely take the next step forward in my academic career. Each new experience I involve myself in has made me continue to grow and constantly learn something new. I am someone who has never really enjoyed English classes in the past and I when I registered for English 101 I only saw it as a requirement to graduate but I really did enjoy this English course and I know that it was something that was worthwhile for me.
Individuals can benefit from having multiple literacies. Literacy in area outside of academia can be repurposed and used in academic settings too. The same is true for academic literacies; academic expertise can prove beneficial in other areas. In order to repurpose literacy, one would apply knowledge by reconstructing past literacies and reapplying it in order to enhance present literacies. One educator, Kevin Roozen, described repurposing literacy as blending together of extracurricular elements and of elements from other literate experiences (Roozen 18). Mary Maragrget Holt, dean of the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts at the University of Oklahoma, is a prime illustration of this very idea.
Reading and writing is important: it helps us function in society, helps a skill which helps us find jobs, and helps develop our imagination. Many people overcome many obstacle is their life in order to learn to read and write; other’s have the privilege of learning without anything stopping them. We all are determined to learn to better ourselves and our future. Douglass and I come from different eras, cultures, and backgrounds; however we both focused on trying to
Going through English 101 I have made myself better at writing, by taking my time on my papers, focusing on my papers to make them better, and to look for small errors in my writing to make them better. I made myself better by going over my papers slowly to make them seem like they were better. I focused on grammar errors
Reading gives tools to be a good writer, and ameliorate your reading by practice reading a lot. I agree with the king because The English language is my second language. When I start learning English, the first and fast skills I learned were reading. Then I improved other skills by reading, when I was going to write something, I was reading some articles, and I follow the directions to make a
"The Necklace," Guy de Maupassant effectively employs a very dreary mood, despondent character and a surprise ending to develop the idea that when an individual is overcome by greed, that person has an excessive desire to obtain material wealth to feel self sustained.
When I first started school, I really didn’t know any English. It was hard because none of the kids knew what I was saying, and sometimes the teachers didn’t understand what I was saying. I was put in those ELL classes where they teach you English. The room they would take us to was full of pictures to teach us English, and they would make us sit on a red carpet and teach us how to read and write. When I would go back to regular class, I would have to try harder than the other students. I would have to study a little more and work a little harder with reading and writing if I wanted to be in the same level as the other kids in my class. when I got to third grade I took a test for my English and past it I didn’t have to go to does ELL classes anymore because I passed the test, and it felt great knowing that I wouldn’t have to take those classes no more.
...larify the structure and destination in which I was headed. By revising my essays I was able to make the content and message seem more important and made the final drafts seem a slight degree better than the originals, but the finals were better nonetheless. The instructor did a very good job in guiding me and helping find my way into writing by focusing on some of the problems I was facing and clarified them so that I would better understand them. The instructor helped me expand on my grammatical by helping me discover what it was that I lacked while constructing basic sentence structure; the usage of commas and semi-colons, quotations, and how to sight titles of books and articles within an essay. This English 101 course I have attended has helped me develop better writing skills as well as helped me create more profound essays and a very satisfying research paper.
Many of my errors that have I reliesed that I reduced while I went through the semester with my papers was my grammer. When I first started in English 101 I
Reading has been a part of my life from the second I was born. All throughout my childhood, my parents read to me, and I loved it. I grew up going to the library and being read to constantly. Especially in the years before Kindergarten, reading was my favorite thing to do. I grew up loving fairy tales and thriving on the knowledge that I could have any book I wanted, to be read to me that night. Having no siblings, my only examples were my parents, and they read constantly. Without a family that supported my love of reading throughout my childhood, I wouldn’t appreciate it nearly as much as I have and do now.
Coming from a Spanish speaking household having to learn a new language can always be difficult. While, I was a child learning a second language was difficult. It was difficult for me to put words to use in the correct way. And use terms that make sense with one another term. It was difficult for me because some Spanish words sound the same as English words, and while learning I wanted to translate everything the way I say it in Spanish to English. For example, in Spanish “helo” means ice, but if you say it out loud it sounds like “yellow”. Little things like that will be a big issue to me. I have to put up with many looks from others and hear all sorts of criticism around me. Learning a new language at a young age was a struggle with reading