Overcoming Obstacles Faced By ESL Students

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People of all races will experience feeling of fear, depression, frustration, hopeless, insecure, anger when they immigrated to other countries that don’t speak their mother language. Especially, there is a group of people named themselves as ESL students who naturally lacked ability to achieve their goal. Therefore, they worked extremely hard to prepare all possibility obstacles that they might encounter in real life by get involved into all opportunities when they have chances, because of that, they have always ready for next competition in this completely different nation. Moreover, ESL students will most likely shock by educational, social and environmental difference at most time. Because I am a real life example of resilient person due to my first language was not the English. Namely, I was an ESL student, I truly understood all these feeling, because I personally experienced all them at this country, and that was a painful unforgettable lesson of the my life, moreover, there were several times that I was in edge of collapse, because I have thought of no longer to bear this pressure from the school, social and culture, and I want to give up my education. Fortunately, I met my mentor at right time. …show more content…
Back to my middle school period, I always been perceived as most easy one to pick on, because I spoke broke English, which naturally make me become an easier target to bully on by bullies at that terrible not bilingual middle school, I have no support, my family didn’t understand what I have suffered at school, so did the school stuffs, because I have no ability to clearly speak up. Hence, there was nothing I can do except to face my fear by directly against the origin of stress to released my

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