Oct. 16, 2008
The Way of Learning English
Nowadays, second language acquisition dominates worldwide in the
international community. It is seemingly, however, that people mostly learn another
language only for job application, which is the equivalent reason that most children
are compelled for English since primary school in Taiwan. Do they really know how
and why they should acquire other languages? Take Taiwanese students for example,
most of them have learned English as a second language at the start of elementary
school, even kindergarten, a place surrounded by what we call"bilingualistic teaching."
Yet in reality, most taiwanese people still cannot speak English fluently as well as
accurately in daily life, which obviously unveils two concerns of language acquisiton,
English in particular, in Taiwan: reluctance, and disinterest; under no circumstance,
additonally, are most students learning English but for daily pop quizzes, even for
entrance exam either to high school or to college. Consequently, other than the
current stiff framework of education system in Taiwan, here offers three steps in
learning English: stimulus of motive, self-learning surroundings, incessant practise.
In the first place, it is very crucial to seek for stimulus of your motive. At the
beginning of the stage, you should either find out or figure out “2W1H”
in English learning: What am I learning? Why should I acquire a language?
How do I improve step by step? Questions the above are to help you rethink or
reconsdier to which your needs and orientations are, and you will get to know
how you are interested in learning English. In addition, you should find something
that engrosses you in, arousing your attention, along with motivation that drives you
to learn more. Some oftens longs for trendy accessories or clothing, for instance,
they may subscribe Vogue, a monthly magazine, or GQ, which is mainly concerned
with male; these people are totally fascinated by these kinds of magzines, whatever
languages they are written by. Another evident example is SATC, a.k.a. Sex and
the City; this kind of series programme attracts so many taiwanese's attetion by
watching either via TV, or DVDs, or even the net. Its material is similar to Chick lit,
a thriving literature that prospers nowadays in metropolis, that targets upon those
who call themselves"modern females", which already impacts down upon generation
Natasha Walter in The Guardian. The phenomona shows that what truly matters
if you are motivated.
Secondly, you yourselves are supposed to create a self-learning surroundings. Providing
you have already been stimulated or motivated for language acquisition prior to this
stage, you are gently urged to have an environment entirely blankted with English.
It is always said that only if you "go overseas", you could improve speaking a lot,
and something like that. Yes, it is. What if you stayed in another country, hanging
out with a group of people in your mother tongue, however? Based on this issue
, your concern should be more of a environment than other countries. How do we
make surroundings full of English? To begin with, it is easily for you to think in English
upon the first step. Try to think everything by ways of English, and then speak up,
which you can gradually correct yourself while making grammatical errors time
after time. Meanwhile, listen to songs, radios and watch TV programmes in terms of
English all the time will subconciously and steadily familiarise you with this language.
After the habitual change all the above, you should mostly change what are near at
hand into English, such as computer built-in language, mobile, even digital camera
that need to be switched.
In completion of the first as well as second step, you should get along with English
very well. Given that practise is supposed to make imperfect things nearly perfect,
you need to do it incessantly. At the start with this stage, your preparatory work
focuses on continuous exercise, sharpening eqipped techniques. In this way, four
skills are basically categorised into two sections: listening and speaking are as a first
part, while reading and writing belongs to the other. Firstly, shadowing should be
practised at the beginning, where the speed of content is from low to high. Later on,
doing paragraph-by-paragraph summary by speaking has an easy access to the
whole picture of the content to which you have just listened. Additionally, remember
to have a tape recorder, along with a blank tape, at hand, which helps you archive
your words, enabling you to have correction subsequently and instantly.
As regards the other section, extensive reading and amassment of vocabulary should
be undertaken in sync. Both need long-term passages to build up, to which is no royal
road.
To conclude steps all the above, it is a good to learn English in the way that one can be
self-motivated, creating their own ambience of learning and continuously practise.
More importantly, you should search for the way of learning on your own.
Otherwise, it is not useful in search of more and more tactics or strategies.
Moreover, those elements results from two aspects: self-discipline and time
management, redoubling effects upon self-study, and mostly overcomes the
confrontation of hardships. Last but not least, you should bring your schedule
into practise rather than framing up everything only by words.
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