When I was a child I loved to listen to English songs, I was five years old when I listened Abba for the first time and I loved them after that I started to sing when I listened to English songs, of course I didn't understand the songs but this time was the first positive experience with English.
Later, at Elementary School and at High School, I was a very good English student because I started to show interest in order to improve my Ennglish. So, I decided to study Portuguese and English at University however I faced many difficulties I needed to start an English course to help me with my fluency too.
For this, I started to study at Fisk, I studied there for two years, but the course started to become expensive and I didn't finish the course that was very frustating for me.
At University I had many positive experiences with my classmates and my teachers these people have influenced my learning process as a learner and as a teacher. At University I had funny teachers, serious teachers, strict teachers and these characteristics I realized with my classmates too, maybe in the future we will be like our teachers.
The way I learned, learn, and the way I am going to learn the English language will probably be with me for all my life, the process of learning has changed my attitude every day because I find different ways of learning and teaching for different people in different environments.
This is the great aspect for us as English teachers: every day we can change our methods, our behaviours, our likes and deslikes in order to find us as teachers and to find each other as learners through the foreign language.
I worked many years in a bank, after that I went away I bought a store, "which was a negative experience".
ReplyDeleteI began to study English at "elementary" school, it was a good teaching, the teacher was helpful and of teached well. In high school I had less English, therefore I don't remember well of the teachers and of the teaching. At the university, I thing that the teaching of English wasn't efficient, because I hadn't conversation. I took a course at "International house", but only for two years. After I began to give classes. I gave classes at a private school and in publics schools. I went the private when I bought the store. I teach Portuguese too. It is very difficult dedicate me only with the English, I like English, but I don't have much time. My experience is not relevant, but I have been learning English, I feel don't have time to dedicate myself. I like the course at the Federal university, but I have problems to do it, because there are several activities that I need to my life. The course help me very much. The teachers are helpful and patient. I have been learning English since that I started going to university. English was not a main subject, I studied Portuguese too at the university. I hadn't oportunity to study English very much. Therefore I learned English by myself and I could rarely study it. The reason is that I did not have enough time and I didn't practice it much, because at school I studied more grammar; English grammar was taught all the time; it went even more important than listening and speaking it. It was easy to pass English exams, but I couldn't speak sentences fluently or write them naturally. My speaking still is not good, because I have not practiced it, only in the course at the Federal university, but I still have difficulty to open my mouth because I am shy.
how i have been learning English
ReplyDeleteI started to like to learn English since my first contact with it, it was in fifth grade in my city, my teacher was José Eladio an excellent teacher in my opinion, I liked it so much, that I keep the book that we used among my favorite things but I never took a privite course, I only stidied at Public School because my mother did not have moneu to pay for one.
I gradueted at Puc- Paraná in Letras- Ingles, but there I learned litlle, but since then I have been sudying by myself. when I had time I read books , magazines an did grammar exercises at home to povide my knowledge, but now I do not have timeto do this anymore. My dedication is this course here at nap. I like this course a lot because it has been helping me very much my teachers are wonderful and my friends too. But I think that I know little to be a good teacher as I would like to be, I need to know much more, but my job is taking all my time and that is being very bad for me because I need to dedicate time in order to have a good result , but this course at Nap is all that I have to be a able learn , then I am going to effort into it, and try to provide , because my dream is really learn to listen, write, speak and read in English fluently.