My Passion For English Essay

I love language because it carries beauty and thought. While the study of languages seems monotonous and meticulous to many people, to me it is an unfathomable ocean of fun. My initiation of English study originated from my obsession to literary aestheticism. It was a step-by-step aesthetic pilgrimage to the glorious palace of western literature when I started from ABC on, then read simple passages, later moved onto the beautiful essays and poetry and at last plunged into the classics by literary masters.

Literary works are the inspirations from writers’ hearts. William Shakespeare and his plays, Francis Bacon and his philosophy, the poetry by William Wordsworth and Percy B. Shelley and the novels by Thomas Hardy and Mark Twain, they displayed …show more content…
First, it is a passion for English language and literature, which has served as the powerful motivation in my studies of them. I believe that there is another aspect about my passion—the impulse to share my knowledge of English language and my perceptions of life with others. This impulse to share with other has led me to believe that a teaching career would be my best alternative. I simply want to share with others my passion for English language and literature in particular and my passion for life in general. It is well-said that “for education to be an enriching experience, the meanings that emerge must become personal, and they must be significant and important in some part of the person’s life.” My concept of a teacher is that a teacher should not merely act as a gateway to knowledge. A person can become a better teacher by influencing students with his or her passion, enthusiasm, and dedication, by exposing students to the beauty of the things that are being taught. As a future teacher, I will try to be not only very competent in imparting professional knowledge but also skillful in imbuing my unique teaching style with an inspiring passion. I will make my teaching a lifelong benefit to students and a spiritual reward to …show more content…
In spite of that, we consider it regrettable that there is unformed yet any scientific and effective English education system in China. To most of the Chinese students, English study is excessively tedious and unrewarding. Apart from the historical and cultural reasons, we ascribe this unsatisfactory phenomenon to the lacking of a completely scientific English education system. The old English education system paid little attention to practicality and so to most of the students it was sheer learning and no using at all. To solve that problem, it is very important to stimulate students’ interests in using the language. Mine originated in one of my homework. It was in my sophomore years when my teacher assigned to us the writing of a composition, supposedly on his teaching. Today I still remember the underlying red inks presented to me from my teacher: “As a bonus to your creativity”. It greatly motivated me toward English teaching. Later I studied, by myself, the Cambridge Books For Language Teachers series, including Psychology for Language Teachers, Second Language Teacher Education etc. Through these I realized that language teaching was an art. It involved English language for sure and that was not all. Knowledge of psychology, linguistics, computer assisted education etc. were all necessities in