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Essay On Learning English

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I had the blessing of starting learning English at the early age of six and ever since it has been a very important part of my life. Few have been as fortunate as I was, which is why I choose English Teaching as my profession; I want to change that. Thorough my secondary and now tertiary education, it has been my goal and ambition to broaden my knowledge of the language with the purpose of teaching others as effectively as it was taught to me, and I believe this scholarship offers the ultimate experience and challenge for me to pursue my objective.

The academic insight it offers is unique. It is an opportunity to put the skills I have acquired through my progressive teaching practicums to the test and simultaneously learn the teaching methodologies and strategies employed there. Although I would be there to teach native speakers their own language, I feel even more encouraged to analyze the techniques they use to both teach and learn English, as well as learn from their own education system. Gaining knowledge on this would not just provide further information in terms of treaching strategies, …show more content…

I believe it is an opportunity to broaden my own horizon as well as the students’. Show them both in the U.S. and, once back, in Chile that language is not necessarily a barrier but an instance to express the same thought in a different way and to different people. For my future Chilean students, I believe it would be helpful and in some cases even a relief to know that a different lifestyle can be achieved through second language education and that English is not as useless as it is considered but a door that could lead anywhere they want. Upon returning, I would make sure my future students learn this first. How important English can be if they are willing to learn

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