Post 10 (07-11; last one): English Language Challenges
LAST BLOG 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 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?
> 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 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?
thanks for this advice. I've always had problems with the embarrassment and the anxiety. i need to lose the fear with this language.
ResponderBorrarThank you very much for teaching us this semester, I would love to lose the fear of speaking in English soon, greetings teacher!
ResponderBorrarI can't be more agree with you! Specially when you said that learn any language is a process that requires a lot of dedication and time. I'm taking arabic language lessons and I think that's the only way to don't give up!
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ResponderBorrarI have always been amazed at how much you love English! I would like to feel the same to learn more excited
I think that the shyness is my problem, really I can't talk in english when I'm in front of the people. I practice for improve this problem and I hope continue improve.
ResponderBorrarI agree, it is very important the patience, the inner motivation and perseverance to get a good results! I try to put this into practice every day hahaha.
ResponderBorrarI agree it requieres lots of time. Sometimes is difficult interact in English with our classmates, but I understand is necessary to learn this language.
ResponderBorrarI think its necesary to practice more, but of course it requiere lost of time, and maybe this is a problem for the students. The videos that we recorded for the class are very useful to stop shyness
ResponderBorrarI think english language is really necessary for the actual society, especially because of the migration situation that is happening to each part of the world. So it's a job for us, as students of the University of Chile, to speak in basic terms with a person who doesn't speak spanish
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ResponderBorrarIt's really very difficult to speak English when you learn already having grown up. Shame and not only that, remember the vocabulary is also difficult :(
I agree that real life is the best practice. Sometimes it is difficult to speak in English in an environment where everyone speaks Spanish...
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