Language Learning Autobiography

Language Learning AutobiographyI came from Johor, Malaysia. I was Chinese and my native language was Mandarin. I took a long duration to happen upon slope and from hating it to loving it. Learning English is not an easy task and I encountered some difficulties during my check intoing experience of English. Although I study at Kirkby planetary College for teacher training course now, there is still need an mitigatement for my English as I pass on become English primary(a) teacher in the future which I will teach proper use of English to the students.I started to defraud English since I was six years old. My parents direct me to a kindergarten where I learnt English and Mandarin there. The teacher taught us about the four basic skills of learning English, namely reading, writing, speaking and listening. For example, I learnt how to pronounce the 26 letters (A, B, C, D), how to read and how to write it correctly. At first, I did not interest in learning English during English lesson in class. However, the high longanimity and hard executioning teacher used interesting ways of teaching to let me paying more attention to their lesson, do not feel boring and go steady the lesson easily. For example, the teacher organized a mini game about pronunciation of 26 letters and the students were rewarded if pronounced the letters correctly. Due to the excellent hard work by the teacher, I passed my English Test with flying colours for all the three semesters.I continued my studying in primary Chinese school. My primary school opened a special English class for all students from standard one to standard six in order to improve and attach Englishs standard of the students. At the beginning, the teacher taught a few of repeated simple words and sentences such as, Can you lend me your pencil? or May I help you? The teacher was very nice and always praised us and encouraged us to pay more effort in studying English. I began to deal that I was a genius at that time a s I was easily mastering the language. However, when I became standard six students, I became very arch and not interested in studies including attending for English class. I always ran directly towards my room and started playing computer games such as Left 4 dead 2, and Pro Evolution Soccer after I came back from school. I became addicted to the games. Because of English class was started either afternoon which took away my time for playing computer games, I decided to stop going for English class. Thinking back, I make a wrong decision for giving up this class. If I had continued, maybe I did not need to put more effort in studying English today.My remarkable moment for learning English began when I studied Form Four in secondary school. At that time, my English teacher Mrs. Hwang was very strict. She wanted us to read English storybook every week and wrote the summary of the story and the moral values from the story. Moreover, she also made us to read all the articles in the t extbook and made a demonstration about it. During the presentation, she would correct our pronunciation. It was losing face if being corrected in front of other students. To avoid this, I practiced my pronunciation again and again at home and even referred to my English teacher if anything about the pronunciation or grammar I did not know. Furthermore, Mrs. Hwang also made us to read a newsprint like The Star or New Straits Times every day and asked us to jolt down the difficult words into the notebook and made five sentences about it. After that, she asked us to memorize the difficult words which would be stated in English Monthly Test. As a solving of all these hard works, I achieved an excellent result for my English subject in my school examination and even As in my Malaysia Education security department (SPM) examination.After finishing my secondary education, I furthered my study by taking Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) course which will become primary Englis h teacher in the future. There were several reasons that I wanted to become English teacher. If I became English teacher, I could improve my English further during the five and a half years of training in Kirkby International College. As a result, I was able to communicate with the unknown people in English when I travelled to foreign countries in the future. Besides that, I also wanted to help the students that living in boorish areas to increase their Englishs standard as they were poor and unable to access to multiple resources such as reference book to improve their English. Before I was elect to study at this college, I needed to go through the interview. In order to pass the interview, I needed to have higher proficiency in English. Although I had achieved excellent result for English subject in SPM examination, I needed to intensify my practice on English to get ready for the interview. by from reading the storybook every week, I also watched English channels such as movie s, dramas and documentaries. For movies, I liked to watch action and scientific movies such as Predator and Fast and Furious while for dramas, I like to watch CSI Miami and Oh my English. Drama Oh my English is the educational channel suitable for the students to improve their English. In this drama, students could learn the correct way of speaking English, grammar and vocabulary. For documentary channels, I liked to watch Discovery as this channel not only improve my English, and also provided scientific knowledge. Besides that, I also updated myself by reading the current news online. Hence, I was able to know what had happened in my country and other country and I would check the dictionary for the words that I did not understand. As a result, this improved my reading skill and learnt new words.According to my personal experience, I reckon there is no short cut to studying English. We need to go through all the hardships before we get sweet return. We need to practice more, lear n more, read more, listen more and speak more in order to increase the proficiency of our English. These are only the ways to master English.(1050 words)