Evaluating English Language

Did you know that 92 percent of all English students end up passing the class, but that only 84 percent of choir students pass English class? In elementary school, I was able to write and read efficiently. However, my comprehension of what as I read as I got older was not as good as it could have been. I was able to read books and understand the main points, but often I would forget little details. My past few years in English have been successful and I have been able to achieve many of the goals I have set for myself as an English student. In this paper, I will address my strengths, my weaknesses, what I enjoy the most, and how I learn the best. I have some strengths and weaknesses and ways I learn the best doing hands-on learning and activities. My strengths in English are writing papers and doing hands-on stuff. My weaknesses are comprehending things and doing bookwork.

Communicating with my peers has been a hefty struggle with me for years. For me to speak with one partner let alone a whole class was challenging enough. Through elementary, I used to speak in quiet stutters that required an ear full to get a word.

When I first came to United State I was afraid to talk, I was scared that people will judge my accent and my word choice.I wasn’t enough to speak until the second year of middle school. After I realized that I needed to step out from my zone, the first step that I chose overcome was to speak with my teachers. I tried to ask questions, told them the story of the book that I read to practice my speaking skill and it helped me a lot. But even though I got comfortable with my speaking, I still could not make friends because I could not understand the conversation that my classmate had, I don’t understand what is popular in this place and what is not. I tried to search it but It didn’t help because It is not appealing to me and have no idea how

The British infant and primary education system has advanced through time and is known to be very different to early education systems in parts of Europe. Comparisons of the effectiveness of this education system have taken place on more than one occasion by writers who are seeking to find answers to its flaws and successes. The writer uses past perfect and present continuous verb tenses when making her statements so that they validate her points to the audience. For example, “difference between the ways children are taught in Britain” (past perfect), “some children thrive on it. Many do not. In the

What have I learned in English 102? When I began this class, I had not taken a formal English class in over thirty years. I understood sentence structure and essay writing to a point. To elaborate my understanding was based on story telling rather than research and factual commentary. Of course, rhetorical review and research was foreign to me. I had a loose understanding but had never practiced or been in a position to apply these skills. Or at least that is what I thought. Since beginning this course, I have found it both challenging and enlightening. I feel that my skills have developed over the last few weeks and a greater understanding of what it takes to identify and understand complicated subjects has progressed. Not just that I can read difficult scholarly text, but that I can focus on what they are trying to say, their argument, and then develop my own counter argument in support of or against the authors statements. It is more than just saying I concur or I do not agree with you. It is stating how my point of view differs and supporting my statements logically and directly with facts, not just conjecture. Within the following paragraphs I will discuss, in more detail, the specific areas where I feel I have matured and how I intend to apply this new-found knowledge to my future writing as well as reading materials to assess their value.

Providing that, this course assisted me in thinking through my strengths and weaknesses. To start with, I find it very easy to deliver an idea now, and communicate with the readers through writing. Looking back through my essays, I noticed that at the beginning of this course my voice was not present. Now, however, I learned how to set forth an argument, stand for it, and present it using logical facts, keeping in mind that my voice should be there. Additionally, my grammar and vocabulary has improved, as a result, it enhanced my writing and helped keep the readers focused. I also use lot of transitional words to link my ideas and allow the essay to flow smoothly and coherently. As for my weaknesses, I noted that I keep drifting away from the main idea. This makes it very hard for the reader to grasp the purpose quickly. In addition, I take ages to write an essay, and this frustrates me sometimes thus, I start loosing interest and influence. Altogether, I think learning never ends, therefore, I’ll keep trying to overcome my weaknesses and add more skills to my writing strengths list.

I also read up on what it means to make English the official language as opposed to being an “English only” state. I agree with you that making English official does make our government institutions not only run more efficiently, but keeps them organized and productive. The way I look at it is if a group of people go into a meeting with a stack of documents all in different languages, how long is it going to take them to go over them and how much longer is that meeting going to take because it is in multiple languages? I feel it is important to keep it simple. I also agree with you that the language barrier could make many things ineffective. Where you state in business (and I agree) the first thing I think of is how the larger government

Chapter Ten Assessing Language by Craig Pohlman In chapter ten, the author discusses how educators can assess language. I believe this chapter is a must read for everyone! Reading and Language Arts is really at the forefront in today’s learning environment and this chapter helps educators understand the levels of language and specific tasks necessary to assess each component of language. Pohlman divides language into two categories; receptive language and expressive language.

Taking English 1102 my second semester has given me the opportunity to develop my professional writing skills. I learned how to use the writing process effectively by brainstorming ideas, making drafts, and peer evaluations. In addition, I learned the title should give the reader a clue about the main idea of the paper. In my opinion, writing is simply expressing thoughts in a definite form. This self-assessment essay will reflect on my most successful and problematic assignments, errors in my writing, and how I have changed as a writer over the semester.

If you are looking for a class to meet both a general education and a diversity requirement class I’d recommend taking Sociology 268. The class, Race and Ethnicity, is an introduction course taught by Professor Kristina Cantin. I am going to evaluate this professor based off of five criteria: subject knowledge and passion; setting high standards and clear classroom objectives; ability to create a sense of community within the class; professor accessibility; and mutual respect.

The number of English Language Learners (ELLs) is growing in schools in the United States of America (Thomas & Collier, 2001). The United States had about 11 million school-aged children of immigrants in 2005. This was more or less one-fifth of the school-aged population (Rong & Preissle, 2008). Belonging to immigrant families and born outside or inside United States of America, these children are from different racial, ethnic, religious, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It is their diverse backgrounds that greatly impact the way they are able to cope with the challenges at school. One major factor that determines their overall school performance is proficiency in the English language. ELLs who arrive in the United States at an adolescent age tend to develop social communication skills and absorb cultural trends quickly.

When evaluating the content taught in English 2000, there is a noticeable lack of knowledge of the variety of uses and forms English takes part in different careers. It is important to realize that English 2000 is one of the last required English courses for many students pursuing different majors. As a result, it is also one of the last times that students with different majors will be together in the same class before taking classes that are more major specific. In order to make the most out of many students’ last English class, there needs to be a focus on more broad uses of English in various careers. As an illustration, I propose a group project in which students work together to focus on real life situations in which people from different

As it is for me, I started to recognize myself with some strengths and weaknesses in four skills of English. Actually I am good at writing. I have many ideas when it comes to this skills but it is just difficult to write anything that comes out of your mind in either English professional writing ways or just simple structures of writing. It is because I am not good at grammar and sentence structures. And secondly, my speaking skills are acceptable. In fact, I can talk to anyone in English but the problem is when it comes to a professional conversation or a formal style, I am not accustomed to it yet. Moreover, my listening skills haven't been improved that much. So I can say that I am worst at listening part. And finally, for the reading skills, I think I am a lot better with it. Apparently, I got to understand the notion of the main point of the reading but the unpleasant thing is I do not understand many difficult words. Besides the four English skills, I have also built up my soft skills too. I am indeed learning something which made my insight stronger. In fact, I am habituated to working as a team so I can say that I am a team player. Also, I have learnt and have improved my APA writing style and format and I, too, have understood the process or the structures of writing formal letters. Other than that, I have improved my personality traits.

In “Course in General Linguistics”, Saussure does two things to develop his system for evaluating linguistics: he chooses language as his linguistic object and he only incorporates factors into his model that can be said to be true of all languages over all time. The net result is a very high level and flexible classification structure, which is more intent on making a developmental framework for evaluating linguistics than necessarily providing tremendous insight into it’s more concrete aspects: rudiments like structure, meaning, morphology, syntax, or phonology.

The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) is an international standardised test for non-native English language speakers, which assesses English proficiency. This testing system was created in 1980 by the University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations and the British Council and has been picked up, revised and redeveloped into an international assessment by many countries including Australia. For those who want to enroll in universities or work as professionals in an English-speaking country, one must complete the IELTS Academic version. For immigration to Australia and New Zealand, it is a requirement to take the IELTS General Training version of the test.