There were two goals of SALL intended to achieve, namely enhancing my lexical resources and improving my spontaneous speaking skill in English. Actually, before the SALL activity, I took IELTS Exam and realized my writing and speaking band score were just marginal, which do not guarantee the entrance of postgraduate study. The result alerted me that I needed to work harder on writing and speaking and I realized one of my major deficiencies in English was lacking sufficient vocabularies that can represent my ideas concisely. Therefore, the two methods and materials adopted by me in SALL were concentrated on speaking and vocabulary bank. The first material I used was news TV programme, which was mostly targeted on vocabulary. I watched “News at 7:30” broadcasted on TVB Pearl around three times a week. When I encountered some vocabularies displayed in the subtitle that I am not familiar with, I immediately jotted them …show more content…
The reflective cycle underscores in SALL also guided me to evaluate the effectiveness of each pair of method and material to review whether modifications should be made to achieve more. I also realized feedbacks from other people could allow me to identify my weaknesses and make improvements on my original goals. Undoubtedly, SALL has provided me a valuable experience to learn English in a more independent way because I am the only person to decide what to do in SALL. Nonetheless, the duration I put in SALL activities was just 15 hours, which was far too short to guarantee an improvement in IELTS writing and speaking. Therefore, I will continue to explore new methods to practice English independently to fulfill the IELTS requirement of postgraduate study. The end of SALL doesn’t mean the end of English learning; instead this marks a new beginning in my journey of learning
I immensely struggled when writing. Taking my scrambled thoughts and uncoordinated analysis and converting it into clean and understandable words on a page was arduous. I could not express my thoughts in proper academic format. I understood the importance of writing to every subject. It was essential that I learn to condense my ideas and feeling into coherent written word. After much debate, I decided that the best way to improve my writing skills was to take an advanced English course.
After this semester of English 102, at Bristol Community College I feel that I have gained the skill to articulate what I want to convey to the reader in many ways. I don’t just look at grammatical error, but instead I look for ways to make my sentences more effective and concise. Nevertheless, I hope that this strategy will continue to help me improve my writing even further on in the future.
Students are usually required to prepare some class with some recommended reading books, journals or articles, (depending on the particular aims of the course), occasions where they are able to practice their literacy and language skills.
Some specific things that she has them do are using the spelling words to find the definition in a dictionary, using their spelling words to create a story, giving each other spelling tests and using spelling words that they learn in science or when they are going over the news. The strategy that my host teacher finds most successful with developing vocabulary of English language learners is "providing visuals, a lot of things are labeled many of the materials that week use are labeled and I use a lot of anchor charts so that they can look at what I'm
Advanced Top Notch textbook is an integrated four-skill textbook for adults who want to use English to communicate effectively in daily life. It is also Easy and enjoyable to teach and that it combines proven communicative methodology with a practical outcomes-based approach. That said, it includes a clear part for teaching vocabulary, a small section for grammatical point, and functional conversations centering around dialogues in every unit accompanied by systematic practice of all speaking skill. However, it places special emphasis on helping students become confident and competent speakers of English. Speaking activities at the end of every lesson, tied to clearly label measurable outcomes, enable students to see the results of their learning
What strategies do I currently use in my classroom that are effective for vocabulary instruction?
In this case study I will introduce my student, his language background; his exposure to English before coming to Australia and his current level of English based on the ESL scales after analysing his speaking, reading and writing work samples. I will assess John’s proficiency in speaking, listening, reading and responding and writing and I will make a detailed profile of the reading and responding aspect.
Throughout my junior year of English, I gained and learned many new things. One thing that has benefited me, even though I do not always enjoy doing it, is IXL. From this, I have gained and practiced many skills. I was able to notice this
As the semester started, I had set my mind that I was destined to achieve a lot. During the start of the semester, I had several difficulties writing English assignments especially in terms of grammar. During the first week of the semester, I sat down, organized my thoughts and comprehended that throughout the semester, I had to achieve all that I had planned for. As a student of English, I had planned that throughout the semester, I had to improve my skills as a scholar, writer and critical thinker. Now that the semester has ended, I can reflect all the semester activities to depict how my writing skills and critical thinking skills have drastically improved. This paper presents a reflection paper of how this
This fall semester in ESL 91has been pretty interesting, and so far successful. The main object of this semester was to improve our essay writing. We were taught various lab techniques that helped us to improve our English writing skills, such as using appropriate verb tense and how to write a research paper with a works cited. Through my work on the research paper I have learned how to write in an academic style, how to find appropriate sources from an academic database, and how to cite my sources. Most of all, I can say that my reading skills have improved because the research for our papers required me to do a lot of critical reading.
Acquiring and learning a second language do not refer only to handling oral communication skills. It is more than that; it takes the students´ abilities in enhancing their lexicon, their management in syntax, and their perspective about words´ influences in people. Thus, summing this up, it is indispensable that ESL students have a grand deal about linguistic knowledge. In other words, ESL learners not only require speaking, but also reading, writing and thinking in English when they complete whatever English career.
Use of visual materials. The classroom is full of billboards, flash cards, big images, cardboards which from what I observed are suitable to teach vocabulary. They enjoy visual activities such as pointing things in a cardboard, etc.
Vocabulary plays a significant role in English as second language learning process. For the majority of English as Second Language(ESL) learners, the ultimate goal of learning the language is to understand (read and listen) and communicate (write and speak) with little difficulty and the lack of sufficient vocabulary may be the constraint of such goal (Folse, 2004). As the bedrock of English and as well as language, vocabulary also facilitates the development of other language skills: lexical richness leads to the progress in the use of language, namely listening, speaking, reading and writing skills (Nation, 1994). Reversely, The improvement in such skills may enhance learners vocabulary size as the exposure to more learning materials improves the capacity to acquire new vocabulary. (The importance of learning vocabulary/ why vocabulary?)
The aim of the reflective essay is to highlight my own personal development skills that I have developed during first semester of my module. However, in this report I will make sure my learning ability phase and what this module has allowed me to work and understand in improving my personal skills and purpose. My major aim is to develop and assess an in depth range of my personal traits as a student in order to endorse my future development plan.
One of the most international languages is English. It is from the requirements from studying abroad and the textbooks are almost in English. If a person wants to get PHD degree English is important and helpful for them. The writer of the article wants to shed the lights on how to improve English skills. 1) students should differentiate between textbooks languages and real English language and focus on grammar and how to write without any mistake. The writer compared between the use of English and Arabic language. 2) How to get fluent English language speaker and explains the tips for it. We don't have to memorize each single word but only the phrases and statements. Also read and write stories, articles and conversation. Moreover download and listen to BBC, CNN, WEE and Euro news agencies to be familiar