Looking back to my
experience with English, I did not recall struggling much with that subject in
my primary school years. This is amusing because as I grew older, I struggled with grammar, the foundation of English. I first realized that I was weak in English when I dropped
to a class of a lower band. This left me with only one year to improve on my English
before O levels. To improve, I would submit several drafts of my composition to get more feedback from my teacher. Also, I would read the
newspapers and checked out the difficult words to widen my vocabulary. In the typical composition scenario,
such efforts would have paid off, but unfortunately that was not the case for
me. I was not able to reflect the best of my ability during my composition and this had been a regret in my heart.
From then on, I did not have much confidence in English and
often labelled myself as someone bad in English. This deterred me from
enrolling into junior college as I was terrified that my language would affect my
General Paper’s grades. However, there is also no escape in the polytechnic as
writing skill is necessary in the academic arena. In my academic papers, I
would often need to use a grammar checker or employ the help of my friends. Occasionally, my friends would tease me about my pronunciation and
grammar mistakes but instead of being offended, I reminded myself to be humble
and learned from their corrections.
My English is still not good and I am not
totally thrilled at the idea of having to go through English class. Nevertheless, I hope that this experience will be a great opportunity for me to improve on my
language and writing skills.
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Edited 2 february 5pm
Edited 2 february 5pm
I don't see any problem with your content and organization. However, I think there are a few long sentences which are confusing. Overall, well done:)
ReplyDeleteYour passage is clear.concise and easy to read ^^
ReplyDeletecontent is good and does respond to the assignment!
i think your article is clear and well structured. your life experiences given are all relevant to the subject tile. enjoy to read your story.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading other blog posts, I can conclude that most of us went through similar experiences in relation to English language. Let's not be sad and we should work towards tackling our weakness. I really understand how you feel. I hope that we can all improve our writing skills during the duration of this course! Your story is well-organised and I could understand what you are trying to deliver :)
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone for your feedback and encouragements. I will continue to improve on my posts. (: Let's continue to work hard for this module!
ReplyDeleteThis is a fine reflection, Anvis: clear, concise and yet comprehensive, with many concrete details illustrating your journey. I can see that, in fact, your English foundation is very solid.
ReplyDeleteHere are a few minor issues:
1) To improve, I would submit several drafts of my composition to get more feedback from my teacher and to widen my vocabulary, I would read the newspapers and checked out the difficult words. > (run on sentence, missing a conjunction)
2) ...I would often need to use a grammar checker or employed the help of my friends. (lack of parallelism in verbs)
3) …through English class, but nevertheless, …. > (structure/punctuation)
You also got lots of feedback. I look forward to reading more of your writing this term.