Post 10 (10-11; last one): English Language Challenges
LAST BLOG SESSION: Post 10 (10-11): 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 and 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?
Hi Teacher!
ResponderBorrarI agreed with you about the common barrier of a lot of students, the anxiety and shyness makes people avoid the learning process and just try to pass the class.
Is true, the fear to take a mistake is more bigger than the motivation for learn but I think that is by the model of teaching and it is a thing that are changing.
ResponderBorrar
ResponderBorrarTeacher is right, anxiety and shame are the worst enemies for knowledge. but in a short time I'm breaking with it to improve. regards
I think the most important thing to learn a different language is the constancy. I try to listen, speak, read and write in english as much as I can, and I agree the best way to do it is the real life practice!
ResponderBorrarHello, I think that you are right. We have to dare to speak english, but is very difficult overcome the fear.
ResponderBorrarI agree with the fear of my fellow classmates when they have to talk in english :P
ResponderBorrarBut as you say, pronunciation is not the most important aspect of know a language, but to be able to communicate successfully
I think I'm afraid of English because I had a very bad teacher at school. She laughed at me for my pronunciation. I hope to learn English someday because it is important in journalism, regards.
ResponderBorrarabout the fears, is a reality! , I think all of us we have fear of speak and learn english because is a new language to learn and we don't be accustomed to the new.
ResponderBorrarYeah, the most dificult thing about learning a new language is try to speak, because when you are by your own you have the chance to look for words, translate and so on, but when you have to speak you just kdwjlfhdkhvk :)
ResponderBorraryou're right about shyness, i hate recording myself haha it's hard for me that part of this course because i have to do it over and over again because it never works
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