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Colonialism is the imperial expansions with political, economic and military forces. Colonialism in 19th century is a period of territorial expansion which mainly led by European powers. In the late 19th century, because of the developed transportation, globalization grew fast. So far, it became a movement of people, information, goods, services, culture, and politics in world wide range. There are lots of similarities and differences between these two terms. While both Colonialism and…

putting effort to improve my writing skills; even before, I started taking this English 101 class. I used to use a various educational material which I thought might help me to meet my writing goal. Some of the materials which I was using includes: TOEFL educational materials, You Tube resources, and various…

Interpreting Experiences Essay “When I Saw You”, also known as “Lamma shoftak”, is an award-winning movie about a boy and his mother’s story of their life-changing journey. In my opinion, the two greatest themes of this movie are life is a journey and mother-and-son relationship, the latter of which I found most related to. It also has a situation that I can also relate to: a bad teacher. Despite its cliffhanger and open ending, “When I Saw You” is overall a great and enjoyable film, no doubt…

only have the honor to become the attendees’ favorite teacher, but also I became their motivator, role model, and the reason why they want to achieve perfection. This also gave a precious meaning to my endless efforts in academic life in general and TOEFL in particular, as I reaped what I had been sowing all these past years. Moreover, even interns from all over the word, including a native English speaker from Singapore, considered me their English teacher, leader, philosopher, and their…

read. Moreover, since English is not their native language, speed reading becomes more difficult for them to do. This can lead them to have bad performance in doing assignments and on reading test such as mid-term or final semester examination and TOEFL…

Introduction Assessment is the topic of domain four. It is significance that teachers should include an assessment criteria in their lesson plans. It is so because it reflects a real picture about students’ understanding and, in addition to that, it gives the teachers an authentic result which measures their teaching methods aptitudes inside classrooms. Thus, I am inquisitively wondering: what is assessment? Why is it important? How to do assessment? I find that assessment is defined by…

English as a second language (ESL) is learned through-out our entire universe. Each student(s) may be effected in a different way in their course of learning. I interviewed an educator by the name of Salvatore Di Giallonardo, who is the creator, director, and a teacher for Languages for Communications school in Pescara, Italy. I was able to skype him several times during this process to gain as much knowledge on the effects teaching English to students who spoke a different language. During…

The Little One Chinese culture concerns more about the organization’s interests rather than personal interests. I born in this culture and affected by it. Many people, western people especially, might hold a resistant attitude towards this group-first culture because we are living for ourselves, not others. But I accepted this culture, and followed it when I worked for group. I adjust myself for the team, and learn from the team. Rights and money do not motivate me because I can be the little…

People enter the school system when they are roughly about around the age of 4 years old. Students make their way from preschool to elementary, intermediate, middle school and finally high school. Of course during all those years students have probably created a dream and a career that they wish to accomplish. Pursuing any professional career would probably lead such students to college and force them to abide by their prefered school. One of the most determining factors would be a standardized…

“Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. In fact, a language dies every 14 days" ("Patricia Ryan: Don't Insist on English!"). In the TED Talk “Don’t insist on English,” spoken by English professor Patricia Ryan, the topic of language loss and the globalization of English is closely examined. Ryan places emphasis on how teaching English has altered from being a profitable practice to becoming an extensively global movement. She speaks on behalf of the issues that come with having a…