Motivation To Study English Essay

There are a lot of people learning and using English as their foreign language in the world. They have different motivations for acquiring English because their objects of learning it differ from one another. Some need to study English to get a job and talk with relatives and others call for learning English as it is a required subject in school. Moreover, their motivations are affected by their first language, some of which are similar to English and do not require a lot of efforts for the speakers to acquire English. In my case, I was studying English because it was a required subject and related to my grade in school in the first six years. However, the meaning for me to study English has been changing through the life in university and experiences abroad. In middle school, I started to study English, which is common in Japan. The center activity of the class I took is to understand new vocabularies and grammar. Even though teachers did some communicative activities such as a role-playing and discussion, it still focused on the accurate use of grammar. As I

I was always struggling to get the points of new grammar reading the textbooks. Besides, I used more the materials for reading and writing in high school than middle school. All lessons were for passing high-ranked university. As I advanced from the first year to the second and third year, I had less time to do communicative activities. In the last year in school, I seldom spoke English in class and lessons were tedious for me. Most of my memories in classes are made up of being suffering from the memorization and recitation. However, at that time, I believed that it was a usual and general English class and did not be suspicious of whether it was meaningful or not. Hence, I was studying English to be successful in the exams in school and entrance examination for university. I had never been curious to communicate with my classmates in