LAST BLOG SESSION: Post 10 (08-11): 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?
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?
It has been fun learning English!
ResponderBorrar
ResponderBorrarI think that fear is because of a bad experience at school or something like that :(
I think that you are right with the reasons about because sometime we don't want talk in class or simply we can't, but like you say maybe is only thing of practice.
ResponderBorrarThanks you teacher!!
I think learning English as any language, has to do with putting a lot on our part to generate knowledge and practice what is learned class to class. I appreciate the dedication that my language teachers have had, when it comes to learning other languages.
ResponderBorrarI agree with you teacher, we need to overcome the fear of speaking English
ResponderBorraryou are right, we must to lost fear to speak in english
ResponderBorrarI agree with you, is difficult lose the fear to speak in English; the best way is speaking, speaking and speaking!
ResponderBorrarI really agree with you! In fact, my particular difficulty is to speak in English. Only there practice.
ResponderBorrarI agree with you! The practice and dedication are the most important to learn any language.
ResponderBorrarI totally agree with you, practice is the only way to learn any language or anything else
ResponderBorrarthank you very much teacher for your words :)
ResponderBorrar
ResponderBorrarI will take into account your advice to continue improving in the learning of English
For me to talk in english is a real challenge but I hope to use some tools learned in English IV to do it ok.
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