My English Learning Language

I was born in Vietnam, and moved to the United State when I was ten years old. The biggest obstacle that I have encountered is the ability of reading and writing . I could not speak, read, and write fluently in English like other people. I did not know why it took me so much time to read a few pages when other kids were almost done with a chapter. I did not know why other kids are doing their essays in the span of a few hours, when I needed to spend a couple days to finish my essays. I have spent eight years of my life of working on my English skills and I am not satisfied with the result. This causes me so much frustration. My earliest memory about reading, writing, and speaking in English was very unpleasant for me. In the many years of learning a second language, Mrs. B helped me start to learn a new language, Mrs. Jon helped me to read better, and Mrs. Remsburg showed me the basic progress that the beginning writers should have.

Learning to read and write has been an adventure for me. Speaking English as a second language has been harder than I have realized. When I was growing up my sister was already in her teens and didn’t spend much time with me. I wasn’t to social with kids of my age until I started preschool, so when I did attend preschool I didn’t really have any social skills. I was shy, and very quiet, not speaking or understanding english very well. Within my first couple years of school I was able to quickly learn fluent english and started to develop relationships with my classmates. I couldn’t successfully communicate with anyone in which caused my participation at school to be low. I grew up in a home with all adults, my parents, and my sister was

At first, speaking English was a bit difficult because I did not feel confident using it with others. The most advanced students sometimes made fun of my English. The students who spoke my own language made more fun of me than the ones who were fluent in English. The teasing by the students made me feel embarrassed and shy to speak the English language, giving me a fear of being made fun of or looked at differently. Practicing the English language with my own siblings and playing with the neighborhood kids who already managed the language gave me more confidence to speak English. Taking Spanish courses in school was also an advantage, which helped me to get better at my native language and kept me from losing it.

I moved to the United States of America when I was six years old. I could not speak any English, so I had many problems. I could not ask to go to the bathroom or make new friends. However, I was allowed to start first grade with the other six year olds, so I was not too far behind them in knowledge because first graders are not at their peak of intelligence. As I attended elementary school, I became fluent in English and began to make friends, but I could not perceive the real problem because I was so young.

I don’t exactly remember learning how to speak English, it’s like one day I can only speak Spanish and next thing I know I am speaking both English and Spanish. Not only am I speaking English, I am reading and writing it almost fluently. I don’t remember if it was difficult for me when I first started school, I assume it was, based on what my mom told me. I was a shy little girl who didn’t participate in class, so the teacher assistant was kind enough to come after class to tutor me at home. Pre-Kindergarten is the very first level of school where you learn the basics to expand your knowledge into reading or writing. I have no idea if the teacher assistant tutored me to learn the English language or if I just caught on. In a mexican

At a very young age I had a hard time learning how to read and write. We didn't find out why till kindergarten when I took a test and scored positive for having dyslexia. Ever since that day teachers have worked with me to learn and understand english.

It was not easy for me. Kids would always make fun of me and they would not care how I felt. I struggled day in and day out trying to learn English. My mom would always stay up late at night helping me with homework and trying to the best of her abilities to help me. She did not know a lot of English, as well and for her to help

At the age of fifteen, my father brought me to the United States, and here I began my studies in the ninth grade of high school. I learned English during high school and community college, but for me it was not very easy to learn English and eventually I still have difficulty to write well or sometimes to speak English. For three years of high school I attended classes that were entirely in English and just one ESL class, in fact, in my last year of high school, I did not receive any class that will help me with the language acquisition. My math, science, and social studies teachers focused more on teaching their subject, then helping me to understand it. Unfortunately, at that time I still did not speak fluent English. As a result of that I felt lost and confused because I did not understand what the teachers were

My brothers, sister and I were attending school. School was really hard for us because we did not understand any English at all. We were having trouble on doing homework, making new friends and we were very

One day, I woke up with the need of a change. I was determined to learn English, I did everything I could. I tried twice as hard in class and outside of school. I had some really compassionate classmates that helped me out and even to this day they are still my best friends. I would watch TV shows in English, practiced reading, and listened to music. By the time I was in the third grade, I was fluent. After everything I have gone through I have managed to keep my head up. I was always taught to be independent but never be afraid to ask for help. By that time nobody in my family spoke English. I never had any help with homework or anything related to school. I am really thankful for everything God, my family, and teachers have done for me. A stranger would need to know that my life experiences have made me the unique, strong and confident young lady that I am today. I now feel unstoppable and I will always go after what I deserve and remain

Obviously, it was hard to learn English. I had to put some effort into it. I had myself learn the alphabet. I had myself stayed after for extra help. I had some help from family and friends as well. I'm not going to lie, my classmates made fun of my English many times but I would just ignore it. The more I learned the more accomplish I felt.

When I was about 11 years old I moved from Mexico to the United States with my father and my two siblings. I remember the first day of school very well because I did not know how to communicate with anyone because no one spoke Spanish. It was very frustrating to me as a little girl not to be able to talk to the other kids. I remembering promising myself that I would learn English as fast as possible. Since I did not know English very well I got held back a grade and assigned a teacher to help me. I loved and hated meeting with the teacher who was helping me learn English every day because it would make me feel amazing to learn one new word but discouraged me when I couldn’t say a word correct. I met with Mrs. Parks every day for two years.

My whole life I’ve trouble speaking clearly, to the point that my parent took me to a speech therapy at Family Achievement center to improve my communication skills. When I was in Kindergarten, I started my speech therapy at Middleton Elementary. In my therapy I work on how to enunciate words and letters sound(“L”, “K”, “R”, “S”) correctly; How to talk slowly when interacting with others, and being comfortable talking in front of a crowd. The struggle of not speaking clearly also put me into a program called English Language Learner (ELL). ELL helps student who has English as a second language, learn English and to helps them with their academic skills. The program helps me with my academics by working on reading and writing skills, and I can

As a son of Mexican immigrant parents to the United States, I was privileged to learn an additional language of English. However, I did not begin to learn English until my scholastic years began because I was immediately taken back to Mexico. During the four years I lived in Mexico, I was exposed to what became my mother tongue of Spanish. Everyone around me was monolingual, so I was never exposed to the flavor of the English language; but once school began, I was exposed to an unknown world of English, my second language. Like many English learners as a second language, I was placed in the ELD (English Language Development) program where I soon acquired a distaste towards English. The reason for my dislike for English was because I spoke it

Online Assessing Comprehension and Communication in English State-to-State for English Language Learners (ACCESS for ELLs) is a secure large-scale English language proficiency assessment given to 1st through 12th graders who have been identified as English learners (Colorado Department of Education, 2018). ACCESS is a summative assessment that is administered annually to monitor ELLs’ progress in acquiring English in the four domains of English (i.e., reading, writing, speaking, and listening). Like the WIDA Screener, students’ performance on ACCESS can help educators’ make decisions on the types of language supports and services that should be provided to students to help then be successful in