Analysis: Canadian Education Experience

Education Experience Difficulties faced in the Canadian education. According to the data collected from the interviews, it was observed that two of the participants (Nur and Ammar) had the same difficulty in learning the English language. Even though Nur and Ammar both studied English back in their native country they both said that the English they learned is not the same. For example, Ammar said: “the English language I used to get high grades, but when I came here to Canada, I did not know how to talk, only very basic things like “Hi”, “How are you”, “How much is this” and things like that. If you look at the grades someone will think I can speak English.”
Nur mentioned on the other hand that the English that she learned in Syria helped
Furthermore, one of the difficulties that ACT faced was something he likes to call it “one-way of thinking.” What he means by one way of thinking is that he has noticed that in Canada's education they teach the student to rediscover the basic knowledge that has already been found, and also the way they explain a certain topic is very complicated.
He gave an example of two different books both of which are talking about I-Beam. The first book was an American book which had 5 chapters trying to explain I-Beam. He was not able to grasp the main idea from the American book; however, when he was reading the Syrian version he was able to understand it more efficiently. That was because the first couple of sentences in that book provided him with the main idea, and then it went on explaining it further. ACT explained that Syrian textbook are based on Russian books. These books are always straightforward and concise. Two pages in a Russian or Syrian book are like 5 pages in an American
One of the important difference in the education system that was experienced between the two countries is that in Canada the education more specifically the teachers, help students to raise their talent and to be themselves. Both Ammar and Nur mentioned that in their countries they do not concentrate on such things (raising kid’s talent or being yourself)
Ammar: “the kids, to teach them or to raise their talents when they are small is less seen over there, so talents…”
Nur: “I started to be more myself when I came to Canada, because I was appreciated from what I gave my teachers, so everything I did was like ‘yes good job’.” “Well, here you can be who you want to be you are appreciated, do whatever you want just be great at it, and be original.”
Additionally, there were other interesting differences that the participants mentioned. For instance, Ammar mentioned that he had difficulty in writing essays and doing research that was due to the different ways in which essays are written in Saudi Arabia and