English Essay About Myself

English is my 3rd language, but you know why I belong to Honors English class? I belong in Honors Englsih class because I want to improve my English skills and succeed in my high school years. Also I am a really hard worker and I want to be ready for college and my future. My legal name is Yonghwan Cho, but my nickname is John (name from bible John the Apostle), Because Yonghwan mean John in English, I like to be called by John rather than people calling me in the wrong accent. I am from Korea…

century, English became the world’s most essential tool to decrease the language barrier worldwide as it is used in most educational and academic writings. Labeled as the ‘international language’, the English language has made a huge impact both in the highly influenced civilizations of the planet and in me. English was introduced to me ever since I was young, but…

language is an attack on her as a human being. The author overcomes much adversity as she is not only prosecuted for her language by English speakers but by some people within her own culture.Her own mother had told her that without learning to speak English without an accent she would never be able to amount to anything worthwhile in this country. “ I Want you to speak English…….Que vale toda tu educación si todavía hablas ingles con un ‘accent’,”(Anzaldúa 35). Her mother truly believed in…

family, I knew the differences between Standard English and home English due to the education that I received unlike most of the old souls in my household. I was taught to use “proper” English in school unlike most of my family members, who only finished the sixth-tenth grade. They didn’t pursue higher learning, which showed a major differentiation in the way we spoke to each other. The…

In March of 2012, I arrived to America. The moment I opened my eyes, I saw a group of people chatting in English fluently. I looked at them with some fear and was worried that I wasn’t going to fit into this society. I missed my friends, my school and the sounds of Arabic being spoken. Later on, I had to attend my first American school. Everything was so much different from what I was used to. The classrooms were bigger and more modern. In Syria, the students would stay in one place and…

social issues that amount from his family and the world around him. This illustrates the change from Spanish to English upon beginning school and assimilating to the culture around him. He experiences his first recollection of language when he attends a Catholic Elementary School in Sacramento, California. He is astounded at the realization of adopting the public language that is English, while having learned Spanish, he is becoming educated as a public person with a public language. “But then…

of 20 kids and there is a total of two teachers. The other teacher Ms. M has been at head start for 2 years and she is English speaking. In head start each room is filled with an English speaker and a Spanish speaker. The reason for this is because head start makes up 60 percent Latinos and 40 percent are Spanish speaking in their home language. The native language is half English and half Spanish speaking children. I teach them both languages in my classroom. The thing I like most about my job…

I never in my wildest dreams would have imagined myself being an ESL teacher. That was never the plan. But Guatemala changed me in ways that are indescribable. It was there that I found that teaching English as a Second Language is my passion. I am now starting on the journey of becoming a degree certified ESL teacher. I dream of continuing to teach ESL abroad and in the United States. First I fell in love with Guatemala, then I fell in love with Javier. I had decided before I met Javier that I…

were: pediatrician, vet and English major. However, I found myself moving to the United States and marrying the love of my life at the age of 18 – this is when it all changed. After being in the United States for about a year, a friend of mine contacted me to let me know about a job opening to help non-native English speakers to learn English. I was very hesitant at first. I wasn’t sure if I should apply for a job that required me to teach others English when I myself was trying to overcome…

confident to challenge you every single game. Do you still remember the good times we spent in Mr. Wang’s English class? We were the troublemakers in that classroom, but Mr. Wang could tolerate our misbehaviors because we always scored the highest in the English exams. Sometimes we dreamed about studying in the U.S., and we would paint the most satisfying picture. One of our favorite story is learning English in a highly modernized classroom with other…