Personal Narrative: My Experience With ELL

Many people face struggles in their life time but my struggles were over the limit. One of my struggles was that I couldn’t speak English very well so I had to take ELL although the teachers tried to help me in ELL it was just different the way they were trying to help me it wasn’t the way I was used to in Pakistan. Starting junior year I no more had ELL and my grades got way better. So I always thought that ELL messed my grades up but, ELL did made my English a little bit better. Also the kind of people I met in ELL were the people who didn’t liked to get good grades and didn’t even wanted to come to school. First, when I had ELL I always thought that I was dependent on the teachers. Since I was dependent on the teachers I expected them to finish my homework just like how everyone thinks. The teachers tried to explain what my test was going to be on in ELL but the way how they explained was very different than Pakistan even in English. I always used to never study for any of my tests because I was dependent on my teachers and thought that they were going to help me with the tests. It was just because of …show more content…
They had different tests and with that you also have the tests for the other classes. Also, the level of English in Pakistan was very low. So I didn’t understand most of the things. Again I wasn’t used to switching classes every period because in Pakistan we all stayed in one class, and the teachers used to come to our class. Which I think is a smarter way making the teachers switch rather than making the students switch because there are a lot more students than there are teachers. I had to learn to switch classes so some teachers helped me by taking me to my next class. Then I memorized the way to my classes and the room numbers. The sad thing was that you get switched to different classes on certain days. For example when I had health on some days I didn’t go to gym