MY HISTORY AS A LEARNER OF ENGLISH

I have been studying English since I was nine years old. My mother believes that the best thing that parents can leave their children is the studies. Then, because of this I began to study very early (in 1990).

My first school was CEBEL, which doesn’t exist anymore. There I didn’t learn anything. And I don’t now why. Probably because I was very young and I didn’t know how important it was. When my teacher asked me a question, I never understood. I always answered it wrong. Later it went bankrupt – I can’t remember when this happened. Therefore my mother needed to choose another school.

After that I studied at Fisk. It was the first time that I learned something. But in my opinion I learned more grammar than to speak this language. However in this school I could travel abroad because they allowed companies to show their exchange programs to students’ parents all semesters. So as my father thought it was wonderful, he paid everything and I went to Florida, where I studied English for a month. It was the best experience in my life. This motivated me a lot. Because of that nowadays what I most want is to speak English fluently. At Fisk I finished the course. However I didn’t stop studying.

So I looked for another school – It was the first moment that I did that alone because it was the first time that my mother said I could choose an English School because I was eighteen years old, I was an adult and I was responsible enough to do that without her. Therefore I started to study English at Words, but I didn’t like there a lot because the teachers were very young, what made the classes not very serious. Maybe I was wrong or it was a problem with me. I don’t know what happened.

Nowadays I am here at NAP, where I have studied English for three years. Here it has been different because everyone has seen me as a professional colleague, not as a simple learner. And I have learned more than structures, for example. I have learned methodology, approaches, forms of assessment and other important things for a teacher.

Finally, I have learned English too at Brasílio Vicente de Castro School and at Potty Lazarotto School, where I have been an English teacher for six years. There I learn with my students something different everyday. Sometimes they ask me the meaning of a word that I didn’t know. In other moments they tell me something new which I didn’t know yet and that they had learned with another person in other places. It is wonderful, isn’t it? I love to be a teacher mainly because to be a teacher is not only to teach something to someone, to be a teacher is also to learn a lot of things with other people.