BLOG 5 - Your Experiences Learning English
Hello class. Here is our new entry, on this occasion, you will need to write about English as part of your academic syllabus. Your comments are of great value to me and the English team, as we grow and learn from our experiences and the time we spend and share all across the semester with you.
1. What comments can you make about your experience learning English at university?
2. What about the use of blogs?
3. What aspects of your English need to be improved and how do you plan to do this?
4. Outside the English class, how much are you using English these days? What for?
Requirements for the entry:
For the present task, you need to write 220 to 230 words. Pay attention to misspellings, grammar errors and vocabulary. Do not forget to post three (3) comments on your classmate’s posts and one (1) on mine as well (25 words as a minimum!) Try to use the English we have learnt in previous sessions. You have 48 hours to do it. DO NOT USE GOOGLE TRANSLATOR TO DO YOUR ENTRY.
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Me and the English language
As we are writing about English, I cannot help thinking how much I would like to share with you all... I probably should start by commenting on my experience learning English.
To me English was that subject I did not enjoy much at school. Although our teachers were kind and nice, the fact I did not have enough fun lesson to lesson, I believed they were mean and cruel. Therefore, I did not put much attention during class and was not that commited to the lessons. Despite all this, I am still in touch with one of them today!
On the other hand, my experiences teaching at UChile, are quite demanding...Firstly, is the cultural barrier, *why English if we live in a Spanish speaking country? Then, there is the socio-ideological perception surrounding English...*Nah, the imperialistic language...isn't for me! In the same line, there is the constant struggle to separate English from the socio-economic boundaries. Unfortunately, many university students cannot see the immense spectrum of opportunities that English could bring into their professional careers, as well as their personal lives.
By instance, many say today that English is the global and academic language or sometimes they refer to English as the language of the future...Many international universities (China, Japan, France, etc.) are offering a semester, a short-term programme or even a full study programme in English. If students get involved in an international congress a colloquio or the like, the most probably bridge language they will use, is English. Several companies are requiring English as an asset and some extra language; namely Spanish, Portuguese, ect. to do their businesses.
As for your daily lives, I am regularly wondering how many opportunities or chances are you encountering where you can really put your English to work...How exposed are you to real English?...How much input are you daily getting?...These are some of my permanent queries navigating my mind as I walk towards a new lesson at the faculty. Lastly, I hope you can envision the importance of having a good command of English for both: your academic prospects and your life enrichment.
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*Comments given to me by some students in the near past.
oh, i know, the english its no included in the other classes, and this does forget english class, i think de englis class as a apart of the career, for me this class its important but with the a lot of things for the others classes the principal of my carrer y dont have time for think in this class.
ResponderBorrarin the last days, i wach videos in english before sleep to practice
I like his sincerity regarding how he saw English and how he sees it now. Personaly, I don't practice English very much. I do have saved phrase, but I don't really practice itI try to watch movies in English and try not to be so worried about the subtitles hehehe
ResponderBorrarEnglish is very useful, it allows you to communicate regardless of where people are from, this opens many doors for you, for whatever. If I want to know the world, I must know how to speak it.
ResponderBorrarpersonally i think that people who refuse to learn english just because they don't like it, are comfortable and visionless people, because English is so useful and necessary these days, and when you really understand it, is very comforting for yourself.
ResponderBorrarI completely agree with everything you said, even if some people still fight against this, English is the most spoken language in the world and its had nothing bad about it, learn others way to express yourself and communicate its always useful.
ResponderBorrarI feel in these times English is very important if we want to know a little bit more about the world, it can open many doors for us that we can take advantage of.
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