Showing posts with label reflections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reflections. Show all posts

Jul 23, 2014

Essay 1-03b: Language Learning Presentations



I'll show about my language skills, what kind of things I learned, and I am learning.



Do you have any advices for my language skills?
Thank you for viewing.

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Jun 13, 2014

Essays 1-03a: Personal Language Learning Stories & Plans

I was born nineteen years ago, and I had started learning English sixteen years ago at K school. At first, I only remembered alphabet and its pronunciation. I liked pronunciation and I could write own name in English at that time. I also learned English in kindergarten. We learned vocabulary and simple conversation like “My name is ~.” Then, when I entered elementary school, there were also English classes. There was only once a week, though, we learned from a native English speaker. I started learning English conversation when I was ten years old. I learned only English grammar in K school, so I couldn’t speak English till then. And my teacher told my English pronunciation is not good like “r” and “l.” I practiced tongue twister everyday. My teacher also said to me to take the exams. I took fifth grade English test certification when I was ten years old. I took third grade English test certification till I graduated elementary school. And I quit K school.

When I entered junior high school, there were many students who are good at English, so I motivated and I thought I must try hard to study English. Then I took pre-second grade English test certification when I was thirteen years old. English became my favorite subject. When I was third grade, I started interested in K-POP, so I studied Korean little. I could write Korean alphabet.

After a year, I entered high school. English was my favorite subject in high school, too. I took the TOEIC twice when I was third grade. I also took second grade English test certification.

And now, I’m English department student. We are taking English classes every day and we have a lot of English homework. We always do speaking, reading, listening, and writing homework. I feel it is hard sometime though, I think they are making my English skill better. Actually, the score of TOEIC when I took first year grew about 200 points compare with a year ago. TOEFL also grew 60 points in one year. I also learned Spanish in the first year. We became able to so self-introduction. My Korean skill also grew. I can simple conversation and I understand simple Korean, and I can read, too. I never study Korean grammar. I learned from lyric of K-POP and Korean TV programs. I can travel Korea alone now.

I want to go abroad to grow my speaking skill and I want to speak English as fluently as native English speakers in the future. The near future, I want to pre-first grade English test certification and want to grow my TOEIC score over 800 till I graduate university.

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Jun 11, 2014

Free-writing: My Language Skills

・Past: 10 years ago( &5 years ago)
Ten years ago, I was nine years old. I has started learning English when I was three years old at Kumon, so I studied the level of junior high school English at that time. But I couldn't speak English because I only learned grammar of English. In addition, I didn't like English and I wanted back home early, so I thought only about how I finished early. I always finished with no understanding. So I always solve questions with intuition, and my English skill was not good.
Five years ago, I was fourteen years old. In that time, I had started learning English conversation. And the teacher let me to take the English proficiency examination, I had Pre-Second grade. I could speak English but it was a little.

・Present: Now
I'm in English department now and I use English everyday because we have a lot of English homework. I think my English ability is getting better and I can make sure that from my grown scores of TOEIC and TOEFL exams. But I'm still not good at English conversation now. My knowledge about English words looks
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Apr 30, 2014

Audiences and Titles

The High School Musical series is the story about life of high school. There are many kinds of students in class, so they have each own hobbies and specialty. Therefore they divide among themselves many times. They are one through
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