Have you ever struggle trying to learn something? I have. Learning English was a painful for me. I learned English as a second language. English is very important. It is an internal language of education and business. It may not be the most spoken language in the world, but it is the official language of many countries. Be able to know English open up a lot of opportunities. I was very scared to learn English. I was struggle trying to learn. I overcame it thankfully. I could say that I’m smarter
way to help them to understand why learning English is so important. Teachers could go on trips to their favorite places like shopping centers or sports arenas and any other. Teachers could also have them bring some of their favourite objects, photos, among others into class and talk about themselves. Motivating teenagers is not an impossible task. By incorporating what they like, teachers can build bridges between students and their approach to learning English. It is just a matter of finding ways
Each student has a variety of experiences that has assisted in their progress in learning English. These students have particular strengths and weaknesses, and likes and dislikes towards learning English. The purpose of this interview is to familiarize myself with a current EIL student’s experience in learning English at BYUH. I selected a student in an EIL 320 class because he has had the most experience with the program. The student I interviewed wishes to remain anonymous, so I will refer to
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
English is not my second language but my forth. Before I knew how to speak or understand English, I would hear people using it without understanding it and feel weird about it. And because of that I wouldn 't even understand the culture it self. I remember One time when my friend was giving me a high five while I was new to the culture I thought he was trying to give me a handshake so everything end up so weird but later on I understand what he was trying to do.But as the time goes on I started
In the process of teaching and learning, textbooks are of great value and effect. Textbooks are considered an essential component of any EFL course so that the use of EFL published materials is more widespread than ever (Zohrabi, Sabouri & Behroozian, 2012). In practice, textbooks serve teachers with guidelines concerning syllabi, teaching methodologies, and the materials to be taught. In order to select the best appropriate text, material developers should pay special attention. Textbooks are valuable
disclosed to me that they struggle in English like me. Most of the students that I spoke have a difficulty in learning the context thought. This led me to what may be the cause of this problem such as the fast phase of the class and also not requiring international students to learn an additional language such as Spanish. As like to many international students, I do also struggle in English.
Vocabulary seems to be a major barrier to many English language learners. Most of learners are deal with the problem lack of word storage and because of that they cannot communicate well in a foreign language. When students begin learning another language, vocabulary should be at the heart of instruction. Vocabulary instruction forms a very important aspect of any foreign language teaching and learning. This is because the knowledge of vocabulary determines and decides the level of a foreign language
Andreea S. Calude (2016), Alex Gendler says: “It can be hard sometimes, when speaking, to remember all of the grammatical rules that guide us when we’re writing.” So what’s the big problem learning English grammar? And how can we learn it without a lot of complications? In regard to how we, most of time, are learning grammar, Steve Kaufmann (2015), a well known internet polyglot with over 100,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, express an interesting point of view: ‘I think traditional language
I am amazed because everything I have done before is what this book is telling us to do so, although, after some time I had realized what my teacher really wanted me to accomplish was to be able to think in English anything I had in mind by speaking out. Curiously, in this book there are some expressions that tell you how to improve your pronunciation such as: “THE MORE YOU PRACTICE THE BETTER” “PRACTICE MAKES MASTER” I have done this one way or the other, and I do not think I will be able
Learning English today is essential. The English language is used around the world in almost all areas of knowledge and human development every day. The language of today practically it can be said. It is in the era of globalization, the great international language, a "lingua franca" that has affected all and affects various fields and professions more or less directly. Possession can no longer be treated as a luxury, but obvious as a necessity and too many reasons to say. First, English is the
Do you remember the teacher who had a significant impaction on your English literacy development? I do. I started to learn English as a second language when I was a child. At that time, I just learned some nursery rhymes and daily conversation. During that time, I really liked learning English because learning English was so much fun. Later, as I grew up, I found learning English is not fun anymore because I have to remember lots of words, their meanings and spellings, which is tedious. Besides that
theories to the process of teaching then it facilitates the process of learning. Metacognition consists of metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive strategies. Every learner and the teacher are equipped with metacognitive knowledge but it is the use of Metacognitive strategies that create a difference in the learning process. This paper aims at probing the nuances of applying metacognitive strategies to the process of English language teaching.
Learning Different Languages When I look back to my life, it was really long ago when I started to read and write the first language which was Gujarati. I know few languages such as: Gujarati, Hindi, English, and Spanish. I struggled with reading when I started to learn Gujarati after learning first language, it became easier for me to learn how to read other languages. After mastering the first and second languages it became easier for me to me learn how to write and read other languages. My sister
of how we understand language today. English changed to Englishes, literacy changed to multiliteracies and variation in languages is major. It’s important to note that the evolution of language was important for teachers to understand and connect with their students. Creating pedagogies that suit specific children and show students the importance of learning Australian standard English to be able to function well in Australia but also to keep any cultural English they may have and make sure they feel
Nowadays, English is used in every part of the world as a universal language. Some people say that If you can use this language fluently, you would be able explore the world and gain more experience. This is quiet true since English has a lot of speakers and we can use it to communicate with other people around the world. Moreover, this language is used as a pillar in any aspect such as business sector, education sector and tourism sector. Therefore, learning English is so relevant for our life
In this modern world, learning a new language is a huge endeavor in a person’s life. In order for someone to learn a new language, it is necessary for them to learn the language structure, its phonemes, facial expressions, word collocations, and other detail aspects related to learning a language. When communicating with someone that can fluently speak the language you are trying to learn, talking to them may be a challenge because it takes awhile for someone who is foreign with the language to find
the power of English throughout the British countries and from the early seventeenth century, the English power began extend in the worldwide. Although the English language roots was loaned from many different languages like Latin, French and Germanic. It was and still the most important and used language around the world since it become the language of communication between countries.it is the language of technology, science, computing, politics, aviation and tourism. The English language started
Mexican, born to two very Hispanic parents, who believed it was of major importance to teach me Spanish before learning English. They didn’t want to be the kind of parents who didn’t teach their children Spanish, letting the language lineage die. So, Spanish is my first language; which looking back at, this was a smart decision on my parents’ behalf— because my little brother who learned English first, can’t speak Spanish very well. For the first couple of years of my life Spanish was all I knew, until
Personal writing Statement This semester in English 102 has been a great learning experience for me as a student. With each writing project I have grown as a writer learning new was of conducting and structuring an essay with MLA, or APA. Also this class has taught me how to create new works research writing from one original writing assignment, which I thought to be very helpful and interesting to learn rather than writing a whole new paper. English 102 was also a great experience with sentence