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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?
Yes, I definitely have to lose the fear of speaking and not to be ashamed. Thank you.
ResponderBorrarYes teacher, you are right. I think the best way to improve your English is in our real life. I would like to have foreign friends to practice my English and to lose my fear
ResponderBorrarI think the best way to learn english is talking in the "real life", but we usually don´t have the spaces or oportunities to do that
ResponderBorrarI think the same. We must lose the fear, and We only can this if We practise everyday with a friend or someone that speak very good. Thanks for all!
ResponderBorrarI totally agree, our big problem is the shyness, we are so afraid of being ashamed, that we don't improve our english or any other language as we should.
ResponderBorrarI don't have fear of speaking, but I don't like speak with anybody. But when I need communicate with somepeople in English, maybe I remember you, and this class. Thank you!
ResponderBorrarEnglish is a dificult subject to me, but is interesting learn other language. I think the same, the shyness is a big problem for all of students, we have to leave the fear!
ResponderBorrarToday is unavoidable that the languages are united, for that I think that, like you said more or less, the important is the communication, but that not forgotten the languagues.
ResponderBorrarRegards!
Well, a better way to learn any language, it is to be in the country itself where it's spoken, but most of us can't do that. What you said it's right, we need to be more brave and defeat our shyness and fear to make mistakes. Thanks for everything!!!
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