Reflection On English 1101 Class

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On my first day of English 1101 class, I was expecting to have totally miserable time and told myself that it will be painful to go through an English class for a semester. However, all these expectations shattered after my very first day. My teacher, Gale Thompson, is a really positive and energetic person. Throughout the semester, I realized how much she cares about our learning experiences and helping us to become better writers. She was really caring and willing to help no matter what kind of problems we were dealing with. I really think Gale influenced me in such a positive way and helped me to grow so much as a writer. Even though we were given totally different topics to write on every essays, it was surprising to realize that there were some connections going on throughout all my essays. A common theme among my papers seemed to be talking about the adjusting period of my life when I immigrated to the United States of America from South Korea. I never really enjoyed writing. …show more content…
It was about language and how we use them differently in different groups of people and what language mean to us. Instead of talking about a certain “group language” I decided to talk about the fascinations of being a bilingual. In my paper, I talked about some “new” frustrations after I got used to speaking, reading, and writing English. After I began to freely communicate with people, I had a hard time translating English to Korean or vice versa even though I both knew the word in Korean and English. I talked about how my brain developed a separate room for English and Korean to have their own space, separated from each other. On my paper, I also talked about my fascinations towards combining English and Korean part of my brain. We all have different values and definitions of what language is. However, to me, I think Language makes you who you are as a person. It is your

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