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prezi (about past tense)

Quizlet for 6th-lesson 5. May I take your order?

Reading Reflection #2. How I learned English

   While reading this article, I remind my English learning style and teaching method. Tomasz P. Szynalski(wrote this article) has worked mainly as an English-Polish translator. I think that the environment of Polish English education is similar to Korea’s. He started learning English when he was 6 years old. For 8 years he learned English the way everybody does, it was awfully ineffective. On the other hand, when his father bought him computer he started playing lots of adventure games. While playing these games he would read a lot of English sentences and after some time he gained a little “grammar intuition”. He thought that it is possible that adventure games had taught him more than English classes. After that he started to learn English seriously because he wanted to improve himself, communicate with the world, or even get good grades and well-paying job. Every day, after school, he watched American TV. As a result, he is getting better and better at understanding spoken English. He was also picking up some words and phrases that he could use in his own sentences. He started reading books in English and then added new words to his Super Memo. And he started writing e-mail in English and spent thousands of hours talking to friends in English. He was motivated because he was enjoying his own progress. He wrote the advantage that English gives you. First, with English, he can learn more about anything he is interested in. Second, he can write for the whole world. Third, he can communicate with virtually all educated people in the world. Forth, he gets excellent entertainment. Fifth, he has more fun watching movies and playing computer games. Also, he can go to any English-speaking country and communicate easily. After reading this article, I realized that the way of learning has to focus on the interest of learner and instructor has to encourage students to enjoy learning process. This article can help my teaching for language learner. And I will try to give more authentic materials to students are interested in.