Learning a New Language
Learning English: A surprising experience
Learning a new language can be a scary and frustrating experience but for other people it is not. This is the case of a girl named Lindsay. She is 22 years old and she is studying a Bachelors of Arts in English Language Teaching. She started to learn English when she was ten years old because it was a mandatory subject at the school she attended. The interesting thing about her case is the fact that, even though it was a compulsory course, she mentioned that - “it suddenly caught my attention”- . There are some reasons why learning English attracted her greatly . In her English classes the teacher focused more on vocabulary than grammar. She shared this because their teacher used to say that they needed to learn “chunks of the language since they were young” . She also shared another reason , she mentions that – “I was very interested on my English class because our teacher used to encourage and motivate them with some sweets and prices”- She would feel eager to participate and attend the class because of these reasons. In addition, she was really into singing and learning the lyrics from the songs that she liked on those days.
In order to improve her learning, she used to do several fun activities such as watching movies with English subtitles, also to listen to music. By the way, these are activities that she still does because she thinks that “these are interesting and fun activities.” The activity she loved the most when learning English was to participate in the “Spelling contests” because she was really good at it and she would enjoy this competencies a lot. Regarding the contests , she shared that “sometimes it was really stressful for me , but I pushed myself to be perfect and to learn some words by heart and thanks to that I am really good at spelling”.
Of course her learning process was not fantastic all the time, because there were some topics that she used to consider really difficult since her teacher
Learning a new language can be a scary and frustrating experience but for other people it is not. This is the case of a girl named Lindsay. She is 22 years old and she is studying a Bachelors of Arts in English Language Teaching. She started to learn English when she was ten years old because it was a mandatory subject at the school she attended. The interesting thing about her case is the fact that, even though it was a compulsory course, she mentioned that - “it suddenly caught my attention”- . There are some reasons why learning English attracted her greatly . In her English classes the teacher focused more on vocabulary than grammar. She shared this because their teacher used to say that they needed to learn “chunks of the language since they were young” . She also shared another reason , she mentions that – “I was very interested on my English class because our teacher used to encourage and motivate them with some sweets and prices”- She would feel eager to participate and attend the class because of these reasons. In addition, she was really into singing and learning the lyrics from the songs that she liked on those days.
In order to improve her learning, she used to do several fun activities such as watching movies with English subtitles, also to listen to music. By the way, these are activities that she still does because she thinks that “these are interesting and fun activities.” The activity she loved the most when learning English was to participate in the “Spelling contests” because she was really good at it and she would enjoy this competencies a lot. Regarding the contests , she shared that “sometimes it was really stressful for me , but I pushed myself to be perfect and to learn some words by heart and thanks to that I am really good at spelling”.
Of course her learning process was not fantastic all the time, because there were some topics that she used to consider really difficult since her teacher