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SESSION: Post 10 (week 13): English Language
Challenges
> What
comments can you make about your experience learning English at university? What about the use of blogs?> What
aspects of your English need to be improved and how do you plan to do this?>
Outside the English class, how much are you using English these days? What for? -
Wordcount: 260- Make
comments on 3 of your partners' posts and also on your teachers'.
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Learning
languages seriously and taking responsibility for the process is always
something intense and at times, it can get to be a little discouraging or even,
one may feel one's not making big progress.
All those
are fears, I believe, because just by having the great conviction that one's
going to learn and working on it eagerly, will prove that with a little bit of
patience a human person can learn anything she or he wants to. The essential foundational idea is that it is never a fast and short process, all the contrary;
it requires lots of time and inner motivation.
The
learning barrier I most often perceive among my students is anxiety and
shyness, many of them can understand quite a lot but when it comes to
expressing themselves, they just cannot put their ideas forward, either for
being shy or for feeling they are going to make a mistake, particularly, they
think they are not able to properly pronounce. If we look at these situations,
the solution is very simple.
I think
that to learn more, my students need to lose their fear to speaking and
interacting in English, and the way I see it, it will improve when everybody
realizes that having a good accent, pronunciation or even, having a perfect grammar
are not the most important aspects of language needed for communication, and
that if they just spoke and put their language knowledge into practice (however
extensive or minimal), they would certainly open up a door which leads to
nowhere else than to communication. Now I wonder, Is there, at all, a better
language learning environment than meaningful real life practice?. And furthermore,
where can we get such practice in our monolingual context?
> What comments can you make about your experience learning English at university? What about the use of blogs?> What aspects of your English need to be improved and how do you plan to do this?> Outside the English class, how much are you using English these days? What for? - Wordcount: 260- Make comments on 3 of your partners' posts and also on your teachers'.
All those are fears, I believe, because just by having the great conviction that one's going to learn and working on it eagerly, will prove that with a little bit of patience a human person can learn anything she or he wants to. The essential foundational idea is that it is never a fast and short process, all the contrary; it requires lots of time and inner motivation.
The learning barrier I most often perceive among my students is anxiety and shyness, many of them can understand quite a lot but when it comes to expressing themselves, they just cannot put their ideas forward, either for being shy or for feeling they are going to make a mistake, particularly, they think they are not able to properly pronounce. If we look at these situations, the solution is very simple.
I think that to learn more, my students need to lose their fear to speaking and interacting in English, and the way I see it, it will improve when everybody realizes that having a good accent, pronunciation or even, having a perfect grammar are not the most important aspects of language needed for communication, and that if they just spoke and put their language knowledge into practice (however extensive or minimal), they would certainly open up a door which leads to nowhere else than to communication. Now I wonder, Is there, at all, a better language learning environment than meaningful real life practice?. And furthermore, where can we get such practice in our monolingual context?
