Learning Experience Essay

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My Learning Experience By Nursyazana Athirah binti Lias PISMP TESL Semester 4 As a future teacher, it is important for me to have as much learning experience as I can, especially in the English language since it is my major. English is a very elaborate language. There are many rules to learn and apply so that English is comprehensible to the listener. My first English learning experience started when I was quite young; precisely before I enrolled in primary school. I admit; my language is not as impeccable as those of native speakers since English is not my first language, nor is it my second. English language comes after Melanau language, my mother tongue, and Bahasa Melayu, Malaysian national language which I used mainly at school. Both my parents are primary school teachers at the school that I enrolled in, and my mother taught English language. I do not have a strong memory of how I started to learn English, but I do remember completing many English exercise books and reading fairy tales such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White in English language, courtesy of my mother. I enjoyed those books so much that it made me the book worm that I am today. Speaking of book worm, reading is one of the practices that helped in building my knowledge in the language when I was younger. From the books, I am able to identify the patterns of simple sentences. For example, if a character is introducing himself, the sentences would often start with “My name is …” or “I am…” Learning the patterns will help me for future references, whether in reading or when speaking. By reading extensively, I can also widen my vocabulary knowledge. For words that I am not familiar with, I would use the help of a dictionary to find out their meaning. Even by not knowing the meaning of a word, I can guess its meaning by looking at the whole sentence and relate the words. Later, after

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