I am a bilingual student, or to be more accurate, a student who studying abroad, with English as my second language. Flashback to eight years ago, my family decided to moved to Michigan for a year after I graduated from the elementary school. I was a straight A student since first grade, and in the end of the semester I always received a positive comments on my report card from my teachers such as “a smart kid with excellent performance” or “a responsible hard working student.” My parents never had to worried about my study at school, neither I worried about myself, too. However, it all suddenly changed. “Hi, can you give a brief introduction of yourself?” a teacher asked me with a big warm smiled, it was the last class period of my first
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Every word I said was wrong and every sentence I wrote was incorrect, I just cannot accept myself becoming so useless and a nobody. I have totally lost my confidence and finally realized how tiny I am. It was a small classroom inside the school library with only few sets of desks and chairs and a whiteboard. Every students in my ESL class were mostly Asian and came to the United States to learn English. “Each of our English was not fluent, so it must be okay to make mistake.” by thinking of this makes me felt a bit less embarrassed and started to like this little place that I think myself might probably belonged …show more content…
Although we were ESL students we still had the same homework as others, and it usually took twice the time or longer to finished it. She helped us individually on our daily assignment, as well as telling us what we were supposed to do. When it comes to the time we had to write an essay or a research paper, Mrs. Whitney will first step helps us to brainstorming, figured out the topic and details we were going to write about. At the very beginning, it took me almost an hour to come out a five sentences paragraph and still had million mistakes on my paper. She had to correct every single sentence for me, the grammar problems, sentence structure, and word
Every word I said was wrong and every sentence I wrote was incorrect, I just cannot accept myself becoming so useless and a nobody. I have totally lost my confidence and finally realized how tiny I am. It was a small classroom inside the school library with only few sets of desks and chairs and a whiteboard. Every students in my ESL class were mostly Asian and came to the United States to learn English. “Each of our English was not fluent, so it must be okay to make mistake.” by thinking of this makes me felt a bit less embarrassed and started to like this little place that I think myself might probably belonged …show more content…
Although we were ESL students we still had the same homework as others, and it usually took twice the time or longer to finished it. She helped us individually on our daily assignment, as well as telling us what we were supposed to do. When it comes to the time we had to write an essay or a research paper, Mrs. Whitney will first step helps us to brainstorming, figured out the topic and details we were going to write about. At the very beginning, it took me almost an hour to come out a five sentences paragraph and still had million mistakes on my paper. She had to correct every single sentence for me, the grammar problems, sentence structure, and word