Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Reflection of English Journey


Throughout the whole semester studied of the English module, ES1102, I had learned the writing and speaking skills from Mr. Brad. As a student from NUS, leaning proper English become an important issue for me. As I came from a Chinese-speaking family, learning proper English became a difficult task for me. Compare with when I first get into NUS, I could felt my English get improved slowly throughout the whole semester.

Why I have such feeling of my English get improved? This is because after finished every assignments, Mr Brad would ask us review and evaluate each other works and provide some comments to each other. Through this, I can learn from my friend’s comments and make some improvements from their comments. From the overall of the assignments that assigned by Brad, I was pleased with the writing of the globalization essay on expending to the aspect of globalization. After few drafts done by us, Brad arranged few conferences for us to have a small discussion on our works.

After finished the essay writing, Brad also provided us a chance for us to present our essay in front of the class. This presentation would be the first presentation in my university life, as a student from Faculty of Engineering, there will be a rarely of chance to practice the presentation skill. This is because most of my school time would be focus on practical skills and report writings. Before the presentation, Brad had taught us some tips for us to prepare our presentation. After the presentation, Brad also provided us a chance to let the class identify our strength and weakness and then provide some feedbacks and suggestions of improvement to each other.

In conclusion, I believe what I had learned from this module would be useful not only in my university life, but also would be useful in my entire of life. I really appreciate I could be one of the Brad’s students, as he really different from my entire previous English teachers and I really learned a lot from him. After studied this module, I will continue my English learning journey by writing and speaking more in my future life.

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  2. Thank you, Keng Hwa, for your effort with this reflection and for the positive impression the course has left you with.

    You describe some of the highlights from the course in a manner that I can generally understand. I'm happy that you are satisfied with the approach we took in ES1102 and with your learning.

    At the same time, you must realise that you need to continue your concerted effort at developing your skills. The "secret" is no secret at all. Use English as much as possible. Read more and more materials --- newspaper articles, magazine stories -- to help you develop your fluency. Watch (listen to) English language news and other programs, things like the TED lectures, when you have a chance. Speak as often as possible in English. The cumulative effect will be greater fluency.

    Thank you once again for all your work with this course, and all the best in your future!

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