obstacles. At the end of 2010, my family and I immigrated to the United States of America in search of new opportunities. At the time, I had mixed emotions about the move, I was unable to process everything. I did not know how I was going to survive in a new country with a completely different culture. For the first ten years of my life, I had been brought up in an Indian household where I had been instilled with Indian values and spoke Punjabi. Much to my dismay, my largest obstacle would be the
semester I will be tutoring Aidan. Aidan is eight years old and is currently in the third grade at Rayburn Elementary. I chose to tutor Aidan for many reasons. The first is my interest in working with ESL students. Aidan was born in Mexico, and learned Spanish before he learned English. Aidan told me that although he spoke Spanish when he was younger, he no longer speaks Spanish. Although Aidan now only speaks English, this background will still most likely have an influence on how he reads. I have tutored
English has never been my best subject, do to my lack of abilities of writing a good essay. This year I got to learn how to write better essays and also got to read the popular novel, “The Great Gatsby”. Also, I learned how to write a rhetorical analysis essay, which I did fairly well on. Grammar has always been hard for me but this year it became a little less harder. An assignment that I liked was when we had to do the persuasive speech. I really liked that assignment because I chose a topic
a child I was born into a Spanish speaking family, which made my first language Spanish. I began with the similar syllables as most babies do mamà, papà, and so on. Both of my parents are from different parts of Mexico which exposed me to a Spanish speaking environment and very little writing. I wrote and read poorly in Spanish. However, the language spoken by my peers outside my home was another. Being raised in Pomona, CA my community and school practiced wo different dialects of English. Under
After thirteen years of English I’ve realized that English does not come easy to me. It’s important to note that my writing skills have improved over the years. Going into my first year of college, I was nervous. I knew that my writing needed improvement. During my first semester of college, I was able to take the WAC 101 class. This class not only improved my writing, but it also encouraged me to start reading again. I look at reading as a task instead of a hobby, but I know that it can progress
School named Mrs.Gramigna was the best teacher I ever had. She was an English teacher that would take responsibility for students that are struggling in the English department. I come from an Asian family and even though I have lived in America for more than 6 years, I still have problems with English. I was struggling in Mrs.Gramigna’s class and she noticed that and she motivated me to learn vocabulary words when I go home everyday. That’s what I did and I soon started to figure out
in this quote what I have learned in my English course. The development of writing has to do with the minds of a person to understand and process concepts to write them on a paper. I have been a student for about a semester here at California State University, Dominguez Hills and now am capable to speak about flourishing my writing in my English class. Throughout this whole semester, I gained the knowledge of subjects, in this case, the Disability Unit, and SOAPSTone strategy because I have grown as
English 101: The Writing Journey Over the course of my time in English 101 I have learned so much about writing. I have had to grow in places I did not know I needed to, and I have honed the skills I already possess. It has been such a great learning experience and with every assignment I have become a better writer. It definitely was not easy, but I worked incredibly hard to be where I am now. I found that transitioning from high school level to college writing was tough, there were some assignments
them in learning the English language. There are classes nightly for individuals who are in the English language class as well as different levels for individuals who are further along in the education program. The first level is for those who have just begun to learn the language. They go over vocabulary and past tense vs. future tense. Once they are able to write coherent sentences and understand individuals who are speaking English, they are moved to the upper level class. In this one, the students
When I entered your classroom on the first day of school this year, I was confident that what I had learned in previous years was sufficient enough to call myself an experienced and competent writer. However, I discovered throughout the semester that this confidence hindered my ability to improve in the beginning. The first few days of analyzing essays and literary works was something I had never experienced before, opening up my eyes to a side of literature and the English language that I previously