Essay on Myself in English

perspective with working with ESL students. A lot of the students that attend the school do not speak English and just moved to the country, and despite the fact the students receives English as a second language support classes it can still be challenging to work one on one with these students. My first significant moment involved giving instructions to the class with two students who did not speak English. Relaying on what I previous learned in classes I had to really slow down my instructions…

Because my first school year in the United States was very stressful. With every subject taught in English, I could not understand at all, which caused misinterpretations of my behavior among my peers and teachers. I desperately needed something to get out of the situation. That’s why I started volunteering activities but it eventually ended up helping…

feel distant from people. I can see where Hoffman would be confused trying to learn a “cold” English language, because eve with years of experience writing and speaking the language, I still don’t understand some of the rules of English. In some places of the passage, Hoffman states that she misses how in Polish, she could call people names and it would be taken lightly and forgotten, whereas in English people would be offended if someone called them an idiot. I sometimes get the same feeling…

Self-Profile Step II Prior to taking English 370, I had never studied the English language in the way of linguistics. With this being said, I had little knowledge of how the language works and how I speak the language personally. Before this class and as a native speaker of the English language and growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I believed I spoke perfect American English with no accent. By taking this course, I learned many things about the language, but also myself of a speaker of it.…

speaks English except the German uncle next door. He is the first person who introduced me to know the other languages besides my own mother tongue. He taught me to sing an English lullaby such as ‘Old MacDonald Had a Farm’ or ‘One Little Finger’. I was fun to sing with him and eager to know the meaning of the song. In the first song, roosters sound is 'Cock-a-Doodle-Doo', and it is different from Thais roosters 'Ek-E-Ek -Ek. I am often asked him why foreign…

often obliged to study English having as teachers Italians, who have learned English as second language, attending Italian Universities, without improve their own knowledge in England) and English schools (ESOL for foreign people) in Sunderland where these students will be able to improve their understanding and their speaking English. In fact, in my personal experience, Italian students, after courses of English that usually last eight year, have still big gaps with their English. For the…

children that are learning English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EALD). I worked with two children, Z and B. After talking to their teacher I found out that Z had been at the school for the semester and did not respond to any English or try to communicate in English at all. This was slightly worrying as I was unsure how I was going to connect with her. B, on the other hand, had a good grasp on the English language. However, he did have some issues with pronunciation of English words,…

University, personality I had as much interest in English as a sheep would have an interest in being killed. I often found myself dreading having to take an English course because I hate grammar and worrying about where a semi-colon goes or if I should just put a period instead. I wondered If there was any other class I could take to count as my English credit, and that is how I landed on English 205. Later to find out that it would not count as my English 101 credit. I have always enjoyed…

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…

difficulties and struggles that a First Generation American student like myself experience on the daily. My main struggle is the language barrier with English reading and writing. Growing up with foreign parents was not the easiest thing, but ended up being worthwhile at the end. My first and native language is Polish. I had not learned the English language till I started preschool and that is where I learned it from. Due to not knowing English well enough, I had to go to preschool twice so I…