Fortunately, I have past experiences teaching English and learning it myself as an ELL (English language learner) student. I have taught English in local schools in Cambodia, to children who could not afford education and worked with several NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in the process. While working with those children, I developed not only teaching skills, but my passion too becoming a teacher. My work led me to pursuit my career in education, so I can provide it to those who are as passionate
English Composition I taught me a lot about myself, including how to be a better college student, through the process of writing. At the beginning of the year, I was not very excited about having to write argumentative papers. This is because I did not care enough about the assigned topics to have an opinion. But, I did learn a lot that I would not have known otherwise from having to research information about the topics I chose to write about. For example, in paper #2, I wrote about the niqab and
Over the course of this year, I’ve learned a lot about the english language and writing as well as myself. I’ve found that, though I’m fairly fair minded and autonomous, I often have trouble persevering when things get hard or my ideas aren’t understood. Much like how they affect the three miles in a 5k cross country race, these intellectual virtues and weaknesses dictated how I performed in AP Comp this year. Mile one of a race is usually an adrenaline filled blur, where you try to keep your balance
Who doesn’t want to have good English? For a non- native English speaker, it is the matter of pride and dignity. The person who has good English can express himself better and is treated as a better person and honored everywhere. Good English gives personality for non- native speaker. Being an international student in the U.S.A., English language for me is as indispensable as basic needs. However, for non-native English speaker, it is hard to understand native speakers. The way they use slang when
Who doesn’t want to have good English? For a non- native English speaker, it is the matter of pride and dignity. The person who have good English can express himself better and is treated as better person and honored everywhere. Good English gives personality for non- native speaker. Being an international student in the U.S.A., English language for me is as indispensable as basic needs. However, for non-native English speaker, it is hard to understand native speakers. The way they use slang when
Since I have decided to study abroad, I have long expected my biggest issue to face would be trying hard to deal with challenges from diverse aspects of life, about my academic study, about making new friends and about caring for myself when I am parted with my parents. But it turns out that I can always manage to balance my life both academically and daily, due to my extra effort and thanks to the support of professors and friends. However, getting along with others, I find the most challenging
Life of an English Teacher As a student, many people think all English teachers are the same or maybe even use the same methods. But while interviewing Mrs. Taylor, one of my English teachers from High School, I was intrigued by the different methods, activities, and even the classroom environment. During this day I took the time to spend a day on the teacher’s side of the desk and see what I can learn from someone in the profession, and might I say I was exceptionally impressed. To start off
non-Standard English and Standard English. Tan views non-standard English as her mother tongue language because her family can communicate better with her. She views Standard English as the formal way to communicate with professional people in a daily basis. English is the formal language in the United States of America, however, not every individual has the knowledge, the education or ability to speak or express themselves using the formal English Language. In our society, the non-standard English has
C.E.O. means having life skills and abilities such as resilience, assertive leadership, being able to learn from your mistakes, being able to challenge myself, and being able to work in groups. These skills and abilities will be important in the future, especially in college and in my career as a C.E.O., because they will personally improve myself and how I problem-solve situations. Resilience will be necessary to my future because I will need to continue working hard when I am struggling. In college
My First College Level Writing Assignment My very first writing assignment in English 101 at Community College of Philadelphia was one of the most important moments in my literacy development. Literacy has not always been my strongest subject which stemmed from my experience in high school. However, after receiving recognition for writing one of the best essays in English 101 at the Community College of Philadelphia, it gave me the confidence I needed and showed me that I could achieve anything I
that made me the writer I am now, was the English class I took my senior year. Everyone painted senior year to be the easiest year of all and that the teachers are not as demanding since it is your last year. The completely opposite happened to me, of course, I had put myself through another high level class, this time it was not honors but AP! What the hell was I thinking? I had chosen to take an AP English class with Santa Claus. Santa Claus was my English teacher’s nickname, Mr. Leblanc. He was
would fall asleep reading them every night. Until now, I’ve been really weary of college English classes. I went to ISU back in 2009 and I took two English classes that were absolutely horrible. When I was told I had to take, two more English classes at the same time, it was déjà vu; I was baffled and dreading the long 3 hour night classes, at dinner time and during precious family. Even after taking advanced English in high school and passing both of my ISU classes I was again stuck taking 6 hours of
to reform American education is complacency.” Just like other immigrants, I am struggling to learn English, and I sometimes doubt whether my struggle will ever end. Despite the many circumstances that I have already overcome, my ability to understand and to write well in English remain my hardest challenge. I am proud of what I already learned and will keep it up as my personal goals. However, English has never been easy for me to improve my skills. Several power stories over the past eight years have
country to the US was a big challenge. It was like a shadow that was following me everyday I would go to school. I cannot remember the day nor the name of the school. What I remember that I was alone in this obstacle of my life. The kids in school knew English and I didn 't. I was a new student. It was like I was in an ocean full of new fishes that were strange to me and I was the only fish that was immigrating . Things got to the point where I had to use a translator so I could understand what the other
So, let me tell a story of my learning English experienced. My friends say that i'm good in English, because I always get good marks in English tests and I have just scored the highest points in the interview. They think I’m a talented girl and I’m clever at English from the beginning. But in fact, I’m not a talented girl. I’m just a common girl. I’d like to say something about my experienced on didn't do well in English in the beginning. I started my English course at the age of 10. Maybe you can't
to live across the border. But the transition of speaking Spanish to English was very sudden. I didn’t even know how to say goodbye in English. I was scared to come live to the United States and not be able to even introduce myself or at least say good morning. I was not prepared for that new change. I was afraid people would look at me differently. However, I was wrong. Coming to live to El Paso helped me learn how to be myself. Being here and interacting with new people and different cultures has
discovered something about how I can learn English. I started to learn English when I first attend to school. I have been learning English for my whole learning life, but I was not good or familiar in English when I was studying in Hong Kong. After I came to America and started to attend school here, I discovered that if I want to be accustomed to English, I had to changed my mindset and value. When I was in elementary school, I was disgusted to learn English because I was a fixed mindset person and
more languages, they tend to forget the importance of speaking English in America. As an American living in America, it’s not important whether they speak English or not, but what’s important is which language they choose to represent themselves freely. Language is speaked in many forms. Some people may grow up learning one language but choose to speak another and others might simply grow up speaking only one language. As Chinese myself, I have been speaking Chinese for my whole life. My first language
writing that has been pushed aside by students, including myself, for far too long. I am well prepared for this class not because I was a star English student, but because I am ready to accept a more strenuous challenge out of an English class, I am taking extra time to review and revise things that I have forgotten or otherwise pushed aside, and I am genuinely eager to augment my writing skills for the betterment of my life. English has always been one of those elementary classes that I never
text on the timed reading quizzes. I have had teachers, family, and friends striving and encouraging me not to give up on myself. Reading and writing will always be my least favorite subject. I will only find the subject interesting when I am reading or writing something of my choice. Although I’m not good at reading and writing, I will never give up and continue to better myself in the reading and writing process. Ever since I was in the 1st grade I hated reading stories, only because I was
American are independent and outspoken. Khmer is Cambodia language, and English is the American language. Being bi-cultural in the US, I am influenced by the language, figure it out my identity and how to cope and understand the different perspectives in society. First, being bi-cultural in the U S is struggling to speak English to others, especial with my kids. They are going to school, so they are using proper English.my English is limitation. When my kids had trouble with their home work, and I
An English Lesson I sat there in the hard seat of my desk and waited patiently. The scent of bleach was overwhelming in the room, but I knew by the second week it would be covered up by the smell of musty children and chalk dust. I could not wait for my new teacher to stroll up to me, eyes full of amazement, and give me my paper. I had worked hard on it for nearly a month during the summer prior to this new school year. My writing skills were top-notch, of course. Looking around the
to write and speak in English. Because of the fact that to become a successful person, communication to write in English is mainly important. As like others, I have always dreamt about coming to college to achieve my goal of being a business worker. However, before I attend to college, my English was not good enough to achieve high grades in classes. I have been ashamed of how awful my writing was and wished I could able to improve in the futures. I began my college English class from INRW 0420 to
required me to communicate with the other worker in English which is not my first language was a mixture of an interesting, difficult, and challenging experience. Writing emails, shift turnover reports, monthly reports, weekly reports, and answering phone calls were some examples of tasks that we had to do using English in our work. Using Arabic was extremely forbidden, especially in emails. We had to work hard to improve our skills in English because the management would not spend more time and
capable of. My Honors English 11 teacher saw potential in me of getting into an advanced English program because of my writing abilities. I found English Composition as a great opportunity for me to challenge myself and strive to attain excellence as a writer. I have learned a lot about writing in this one English Course than my whole three years of high school English combined. Writing is a sort of task which anyone is capable of doing due to the capacity skills it requires. In English Composition, I learned
freshman high school in Saudi Arabia. She has to take me also my young brother and sister. When I heard that we moving to the United State of America, I surprised by that. There is one thing that came up to my mind, it’s my English because my English was very bad. I asked myself If I am going to American high school, or Islamic school in the USA. I was nervous until I asked my mother where I am going to American high school or Islamic school. She said that I am going to Islamic school, which you won’t
the course of this English class I have struggled as a writer and as well with myself. Reading the description of the English 104 course I second guess myself as fear and anxiety overcame me, as a rockslide pounding against the floor. I spent a few hours looking at my own writing from high school to developed a sure decision before the 2016 fall semester began. With enough confidence in my high school writing abilities I decided to enroll in this rigorous and accelerated English course. On the first
I was seventeen when I recognized that English was my favorite class. I realized five years later that I might have made a huge mistake by pursuing English just because “it was my favorite class in high school.” I realized I didn’t make a mistake because I’m extremely happy with where I am now because I chose to pursue my passion. I recognized English was my favorite class during my first AP class. This wasn’t because I was smug for being in an upper division class. Rather, it was my teacher
On the first day of senior year there was only one course I was worried about succeeding in: Duel Enrollment. This course includes English 111 and English 112, which I would be receiving college credit for if I managed to get a “C” or better. Throughout my earlier years of high school, I was never taught how to properly write a paper. My English classes mainly focused on vocabulary and sentence structure, which is essential to writing a decent paper, but I had no idea how to even begin one. Although
years old. My entire family traveled to the United States in order for us to get a better education and live in a more peaceful place. I never had good english speaking skills and my writing was extremely horrible, that 's what made me so insecure about my writing until this day. Looking back in time to my previous school year, I remember myself struggling to write a five paragraph essay and worrying about how I’m going to do in college if I’m still struggling with this five paragraph paper. You
me, not because schoolwork is boring, but because I had friends out of school that I would only meet with after school activities such as Taekwondo and I might have to let them all go. So, because of my worries and my ignorance I led myself to basically starve myself out of good grades, I started not caring, I would do, in my family 's own words, “A Half Ass Job” on all my projects and homework assignments, because of this my grades plummeted to D 's and F’s. When near the end of 8th grade I
that, I said to myself that there’s no place to avoid and this whole semester is the opportunity for me to try new things that I never did. Then, I decided to take this class. My primary goal of taking this class was to improve my English speaking. I major in English Education but I have a lack of confidence speaking English. All the activities written in syllabus, especially monologue seemed like a great opportunity to improve my English. Also, I wanted to learn how to express myself. I am the person
two different cultures: my traditional Urdu-speaking, Indian-Pakistani side, and my English-speaking, Americanized side. To me, there has always been a right and wrong time and place to use each language. For instance, speaking to my grandparents would only be in Urdu, because they deserve more respect and should be able to listen to what they can easily understand; speaking to my teachers would only be in English, because they deserve that level of respect, and should be able to easily understand
The Struggle of Learning English The concept of literacy in my life and career goal is not just to be able to read and write, but to be able to comprehend and make sense of the world around us. Literacy is essential to our everyday lives, it 's embedded in our social interactions and how we express our emotions to others. I’m majoring in nursing; literacy in my career field is to have the right education and schooling, having the heart and compassion to
moving to America has impacted my life more than anything. I was only 4 years old at that time, the only English I spoke was “excuse me, water please.” We did not know it then, but our lives were going to change, we would become “Americanized”. Learning English was one of the massive changes that occurred, the way I dressed (culture), even the way I have power to go to school and educate myself, and to have my own view on life. We ran away from Iraq in 1993. Living, in refugee camps and running away
this introduction essay, I will be discussing a few things about myself to kick off the start of the semester. If you are curious as to where I am from, I was born and raised right here in Florida with the exception of a small period of time in my early life. It will probably delight you to know that I am, in fact, studying English Literature as my major. While we are on that topic, I will also discuss my strong feelings about English, with a few smaller opinions about certain topics of that subject
“The English language is one of the most popular languages to learn, perhaps the most spoken language around the world is English, and many people choose to learn the language simply to communicate more effectively with more people from around the globe (Wilson)”. The English Language, being my second Language, gives me a different perspective at times of what is being said in the common daily life I so greatly live. Going through the K-12 system I have a great understanding of the English Language
different personalities, my traditionalist Urdu-speaking, Indian-Pakistani side, and my English-speaking, Americanized side. To me, there has always been a right and wrong time to use one or the other language. For instance, speaking to my grandparents would only be in Urdu, because they demand more respect and deserve to listen to what they can easily understand, and speaking to my teachers would only be in English, because they deserve that respect, and should be able to easily understand me. Though
this introductory essay, I will be discussing a few things about myself to kick off the start of the semester. If you are curious as to where I am from, I was born and raised right here in Florida with the exception of a small period of time in my early life. It will probably delight you to know that I am, in fact, studying English Literature as my major. While we are on that topic, I will also discuss my strong feelings about English, with a few smaller opinions about certain topics on that subject
banana with the phrase, “Yellow on the Outside, white on the inside” (Racial Slur). This internet slur is used to represent Asians who have lost their heritage by assimilating to other cultures (Racial Slur). Being Asian with Chinese descent myself, I feel my banana story is heavily influenced by the consequences of globalization. This social phenomenal refers to the “expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and world space” (Steger 15). Such an
the mental challenge of learning a second language and overcoming my shyness. Not long ago, I considered myself to be shy person, especially around people who spoke a different language. Because of this, my new start as an immigrant in United States was challenging for me. My shyness and lack of English language were a communication barrier. It appeared most people did not understand my English, therefore I didn’t want to talk to anyone or have any friends who didn’t speak my language. However, my
had a lot of fun. When I moved to the US in 2012, I was only sixteen and barely spoke any English. Mother and I went through a great deal of trouble trying to enroll me in a high school. Many schools turned me down because of my lack of English skills. As soon as my mother settled me down in a high school and a small apartment, she left me to work in another state. I was facing the challenge of fending for myself in a totally strange environment, where I didn’t know enough language to ask for help.
matter of feces. That is when I began to be self-conscious of my speech. I had been in the English as a Second Language program throughout elementary school, and in the fifth grade I realized my biggest errors in the English language were the pronunciations of the “th” and “sh” sounds which slurred into my speech. The former explained my prior difficulty in the third grade. Growing up speaking both French and English has been a double-edge sword, creating struggles that have made me cry, yet that have
being looked down upon on, so I promised myself that, that would change and I would pass the test to be placed into what my classmates believed to be the “normal” classes. I practiced hard and became dedicated to improve these skills practicing with my teacher during my recesses time. Now I don’t want you to believe I did this because I was embarrassed to be in the class, but rather to show that I could be capable of improving my writing and reading English skills better than they imagined. When
1st grade was amazing. My teachers treat me so great. They even let me play during classes except for one teacher. That teacher told me, “If you can play in your other classes, you can’t do it here”. I cried when she said those words and I pee on myself because I am so scared. Overmorrow, my mom called the principal to ask if why am I didn’t like to go back to school. The principal asked my mom if she can go to school to talk about the problem. When my mom talked to the teacher, she asked why did
the second language. In myself experience I can tell people how hard is learn a second language especially when your study habits are not the best. I started learning English since I was 10 years old I learned the basic words. English has been in my life since then but my learning process has been slow. I took English 3 years in junior high where my teacher spook Spanish all the time and taught us some English grammar. When I was in high school I took one year of English classes where I basically
great deal and find myself always saying “just kidding”. Whether I am making a joke or picking on a friend, I always seem to add, “Just kidding”. I say this phrase usually in a hush sort of manner, because I do it subconsciously. Equally to that, I also make sarcastic comments to my acquaintances. For instance, my friends will tell me about their day and all I will say is, “How interesting…” and not say another word. It really aggravates them. I like that because I see myself as a good naturally
asked myself the same question in every grade, “Why does my English suck?” In school, I was the student that would just get by with C’s and barely grasp the concepts that I’ve been taught. I could not understand why I wasn’t good in English, but it was my first language. Then I realized that I wasn’t great in English because I disliked reading, and that was one significant way of learning it. Eventually, I found myself in a classroom full of students who can barely speak and write English and I felt
When it comes to learning English, there becomes a great importance to the value of writing. To be able to write clearly and correctly is not a skill that everyone is able to acquire. Being able to write intelligently puts people at a great advantage; they sound more sophisticated and put themselves ahead of those who struggle in this area. In order to advance in writing, one must acknowledge growth. Without growth, writing cannot advance; there will be no improvement or progress without it. Throughout
reading stories only because I was extremely horrible. Everyone was ahead while I was two steps back. I wanted to become better, I wanted to achieve more and work on my reading. I started going out in the hallway and reading quietly to myself. I would not rush myself to finish, but try and finish quicker and still understand what I read. Sometimes, I had teachers following along and helping me with the words I struggled on. I would go home and practice even more with my mom. She would take me to the