Language Learning Autobiography

Language Learning AutobiographyI came from Johor, Malaysia. I was Chinese and my native language was Mandarin. I took a long prison term to learn side of meat and from hating it to loving it. Learning incline is not an blowzy task and I encountered some toilsomeies during my erudition experience of incline. Although I engage at Kirkby planetary College for teacher training course now, there is simmer down request an improvement for my position as I willing sour side patriarchal teacher in the future which I will teach proper use of English to the students.I started to learn English since I was six years old. My parents sent me to a kindergarten where I learnt English and Mandarin there. The teacher taught us about the four basic skills of learning English, namely reading, writing, speaking and listening. For example, I learnt how to pronounce the 26 letters (A, B, C, D), how to read and how to write it fixly. At first, I did not interest in learning English during Eng lish lesson in class. However, the high patience and gumptious teacher used interesting bearings of teaching to let me salaried more(prenominal) attention to their lesson, do not feel boring and hear the lesson easily. For example, the teacher organized a mini game about pronunciation of 26 letters and the students were rewarded if pronounced the letters correctly. Due to the excellent weighty work by the teacher, I passed my English Test with flying colours for any the three semesters.I continued my studying in primary Chinese school. My primary school opened a special English class for all students from standard one to standard six in order to improve and increase Englishs standard of the students. At the beginning, the teacher taught a few of repeated simple words and sentences such as, Can you sum up me your pencil? or May I help you? The teacher was rattling nice and al shipway praised us and encouraged us to pay more effort in studying English. I began to think tha t I was a genius at that time as I was easily know the language. However, when I became standard six students, I became very playful and not interested in studies including attending for English class. I always ran now towards my room and started playing computer games such as Left 4 dead 2, and Pro Evolution Soccer after I came certify from school. I became addicted to the games. Because of English class was started every afternoon which took off my time for playing computer games, I decided to stop expiry for English class. Thinking back, I made a wrong closing for giving up this class. If I had continued, maybe I did not lead to put more effort in studying English today.My incomparable moment for learning English began when I studied Form four-spot in secondary school. At that time, my English teacher Mrs. Hwang was very strict. She wanted us to read English historybook every week and wrote the summary of the story and the moral values from the story. Moreover, she al so made us to read all the articles in the textbook and made a presentation about it. During the presentation, she would correct our pronunciation. It was losing face if being corrected in front of other students. To avert this, I practiced my pronunciation again and again at property and even referred to my English teacher if anything about the pronunciation or grammar I did not know. Furthermore, Mrs. Hwang also made us to read a report like The Star or New Straits Times every day and asked us to jolt down the difficult words into the notebook computer and made five sentences about it. After that, she asked us to memorize the difficult words which would be stated in English Monthly Test. As a closure of all these hard works, I achieved an excellent result for my English case in my school examination and even As in my Malaysia Education Certificate (SPM) examination.After finishing my secondary education, I encourageed my study by taking Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) course which will aim primary English teacher in the future. There were several reasons that I wanted to become English teacher. If I became English teacher, I could improve my English further during the five and a half years of training in Kirkby International College. As a result, I was able to communicate with the foreign tribe in English when I travelled to foreign countries in the future. to a fault that, I also wanted to help the students that living in rural areas to increase their Englishs standard as they were poor and unable to access to aggregate resources such as reference book to improve their English. Before I was chosen to study at this college, I bespeaked to go by the interview. In order to pass the interview, I needed to have higher(prenominal) proficiency in English. Although I had achieved excellent result for English subject in SPM examination, I needed to intensify my practice on English to get ready for the interview. Apart from reading the story book every week, I also ingested English channels such as movies, dramas and documentaries. For movies, I liked to watch action and scientific movies such as Predator and Fast and untrained while for dramas, I like to watch CSI Miami and Oh my English. Drama Oh my English is the educational channel suitable for the students to improve their English. In this drama, students could learn the correct way of speaking English, grammar and vocabulary. For documentary channels, I liked to watch Discovery as this channel not only improve my English, and also provided scientific knowledge. overly that, I also updated myself by reading the current news online. Hence, I was able to know what had happened in my country and other country and I would check the dictionary for the words that I did not understand. As a result, this improved my reading skill and learnt new words.According to my personal experience, I think there is no short cut to studying English. We need to go through all the har dships before we get sweet return. We need to practice more, learn more, read more, listen more and speak more in order to increase the proficiency of our English. These are only the ways to master English.(1050 words)