What I Learned In English Class

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.

I have been reading and writing for most of my life. It all started way back in middle school. Most of my writings ended up being persuasive or narrative pieces. I would just sit down and pour out stories about myself onto pages like I was talking to a huge audience that was, for some reason, super interested in me. I remember in 7th grade I loved writing because I just got to talk about my life and all the things that happened to me. Whether the story was embarrassing to me, or were big milestones in my 13-year old life I always had a place to share a piece of me. If I couldn’t think of anything, I could just make something up and no one would know it wasn’t true. I would write about my crazy family and all the dysfunctional vacations we would go on and it didn’t even feel like an assignment to me. It was easy. It was a place that I could really express myself and I loved it. This sparked an interest in literature and writing that was carried out through my future in different forms. Components of all the writing and reading experiences I had, still show up in my writing style now, even if I’m not intentionally adding them in. But I’ll talk about that later, now for the next stop on my writing journey.

There are many important skills that students must learn in school. One important skill would be how to read and write and the other would be how to think critically. These two skills are very important in different ways. However, they are both important skills that will help individuals throughout different times in their lives. The skill of reading and writing can open a door into a new world, a world filled with words. Critical thinking can help with having to make life changing decisions or it can help find a solution to a difficult issue. The skills reading and writing and critical thinking are all important skills in their own way, and they are both important during many aspects of life.

As a scared, apprehensive Sophomore, I took my first steps into English 111. Fears of failure, scary college processors, and intimidation from older classmates swirled through my head. Though not my first college class, I was more nervous of this one than those prior. Before this class I had only taken basic college classes (like ACA and Gym) and felt both excited and nervous to finally be a part of the college side of Early College. For the first time I was going to be with other college students, in a more college like situation. I was horrified to say the least. However, despite my fear, I began to grow and expand in this class. My writing, planning, and perseverance were all tested, and I kept pushing through. I enriched my English knowledge by coming to class engaged, prepared, and showing great determination and responsibility that affirmed my growth in this class. Even through my struggle, I managed to stay at the top of my class, still trying to the best of my ability. Though many times I was exhausted, confused, and heart heavy with defeat, I managed to try again.

I remember when I was in elementary and I used to think the writing was pointless. Especially when FCAT was coming up and we had to write an essay twice a week. As I got older I know realize writing is not stupid at all. Writing is on the same level on knowing how to read correctly and fluently. I believe writing is important because it help you express who you are as a person. Another reason why I feel writing is so important it helps you communicate and think very effectively. Writing also is needed in every job in order to complete a task. Although there are much more reasons why writing is so important.

Learning to read and write in English was a very tough accomplishment that I made in first grade. It was difficult because my first language is Spanish. With the help of my parents and my teachers in school, I had the chance to learn another language. It took time, practice and effort to accomplish my goal to read and write in another language.

Writing is one of the most important skills you can have in life. Being able to construct high-quality papers, among other things, is key. Not only to get a point across, but to accurately give information, or some just like to do it for fun. I write so that people can easily understand what the point is that I'm trying to get across. There are so many different forms of writing that people can utilize however they want to, whether it's for research purposes or for creative purposes. Being able to write well is a skill that can be utilized daily and can is very beneficial whether you have to write something for school, to write a resume and to type something up for a job.

Is writing important ? My answer would be yes, it is important. I believe that spelling is important, the reason is show how professional you are as a person to be able to communicate with other people correctly without any misinterpretation. I have collected sources to address my reason why and will be using my personal opinion on it.

Throughout the course of this semester we have learned various writing techniques that have helped me grow and improve as a writer. By acquiring the necessary skills for writing from this class and pushing myself to further improve on these skills, I can now apply my knowledge to future courses that I may take. For instance, while I may not be required to do the same project, I can use the same principles that we learned from units, such as, argument analysis or revision to complete another assignment. While I might have had some experience with the lessons from this class, I still had room to improve and the evidence for this can be seen throughout my course work. In this essay, I will present several artifacts as evidence to prove how I applied

As a student who has now been in college for a semester, I think that writing exemplifies how well you do in college. Others may argue that writing does not play a big role in determining if one does well in college or not. As I stand by my opinion of writing playing a big role in how well someone does in college, there are many things you still have to do over your years in college.

I believe I learned to write either in pre-school or in kindergarten. It wasn’t anything special, but I know I could write simple words. I’ve always feared having to write in English classes. It’s never been a huge part of my life. Growing up my parents definitely thought reading and writing was important, but because my father was a math teacher I don’t think it was as important to us as it was to other families. I do not believe that I’ve ever been a great writer. I can get a B at best usually, but I’ve never felt like an excellent writer.

There are many helpful things I learned in English 125, but there are a few things that I strongly learned that have helped me a lot throughout the school semester. One of the things I have learned is MLA format which not only makes your papers look professional but it also makes people want to read it. Also, I learned that transitions are another important part in English because you need them throughout an essay in order for it to flow from paragraph to paragraph. The third thing I learned in class is that essays don’t always have to be five big paragraphs; they can be up to nine small paragraphs telling and explaining the same things. I learned quite a lot of helpful things that helped me succeed in my English class.

I don’t remember much about my first two years of school; matter of fact the only thing I do remember is what my parents have told me. I do, however remember sitting helpless, lost in my own world as I watched the others in the classroom scream with excitement as they recited the ABC’s and sang songs while sitting on a large rug. I giggled and laughed along with them, somewhat mimicking them. I recall my teacher, many times, redirecting my attention to the lesson. I wasn’t a bit interested in anything outside playtime; or of course lunch.

In teaching and learning English, there are two aspects that should be concerned. The first one is the language skills such as speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The second one is the language components such as vocabulary, and grammar. These two aspects are taught in order to make the students achieve the ability in communicating both in spoken and written forms.

It is very crucial in any writing EFL program, to adopt the systematic philosophy in teaching L2 writing. As a former EFL writing teacher, I have experienced many ways in teaching writing; though, I found the best way to approach is to adapt the process-oriented instruction that hypothesized writing as global skills by following particular stages that well-structured writing (Ferris, D., & Hedgcock, J., 2014, p 63). Writing is a difficult skill that requires approaching steps to accomplish writing goals as a one completed piece. Hence, I do believe that writing in English for ESL students, should be systematically formed into stages such as: prewriting, planning, drafting, and editing to meet the learners’ scaffolding that will minimize the difficulties that they may encounter when writing (Ferris, D., & Hedgcock, J., 2014, p 65).