For a young children have little difficulty with English, learning it in elementary school at the same time they learn to read. For many students who are beginning to learn English, and only starting to read at the age of fourteen to
Have you ever had an obstacle that you had to overcome in learning a different language? In David Sedaris “Me Talk Pretty One Day” and Beth Johnson’s “The Professor is a Drop Out”, the individual’s trials are homogeneous in many ways, this stems from them being older students attempting to learn a different language. David Sedaris expresses the difficulties in learning French in a French-speaking nation, author Beth Johnson take the reader on a journey into the life of Lupe Quintanilla the reader learns of her struggles to learn English when she and her family moved to Texas. Both texts show the hurdles that these two people had to embark upon while being insecure in an environment that didn’t prioritize their native languages. But victoriously,
Being born to parents who speak Chinese, my first language was Chinese. Growing up, I struggled learning the complex language of English. I had to be in ELD, English Literacy Development, class for years and only until I went to middle school, did I not go to ELD anymore. I was relentlessly made fun of for my grammar in school and I was always afraid to bring Chinese food for lunch because I was scared of people making fun of me.
For me it was hard to understand the language and the writing and in there you have to learn the language. When I was a kid my parents taught me the language and writing. But we did not read any books at all and it was not good for me. And it was fun to learn my language but I’m forgetting the language.
Jaziah Shipp “Disabilities” I have experienced being under many labels. With all of these labels the excruciating painful times were harder when I was just finding out that I was adopted wondering “do my birth parents even love me”, “who is my real parent”, and “why didn’t she want me”. When I was in elementary school I was labeled with a speech disability. School became a big issue in my life. I was so hurt when I had to present in front of the class.
My parents were rubber tree farmers. The government owns the trees so we didn’t make much money. Every day after school, I had to go and help my parents at the farm. I didn’t have time to study for another language at home; beside, my schools didn’t allow me to take an English class. The simple reason was that I’m not a teacher’s kid.
I told myself that I should practice the English literacy, since all the text books are written in English. In re-examining my challenges, I took the long journey to finally grasp the fundamental of reading. A change of prospective, new experiences with people who were willing to help me understand and overcome my challenges and determined to do better I was able to develop my reading ability. As a teacher I will not bombard the student with different rules of reading all at once but help them develop it one at a time as especially when they are bilingual
This doesn’t mean that a student will automatically because literate in a new langaguage but it will be easier. Many student come without literacy in their own language and these student end up in the special education program. They don’t nessecary need to be in that program but because they don’t have something to recall from they have to start with the basics. Student will get frustrated with reading itf they can not read at least 80% . some ways to help out
In Scott Sonnon’s book A Mountain Stands: Confessions of a Suppressed Genius Sonnon says, “Dyslexia was not my deficit, but my advantage.” By clinical definition, dyslexia is a language-based learning disability, which affects an individual’s aptitude to read due to complications identifying sounds and linking letters and words. In elementary school, I was diagnosed with severe Dyslexia. Since my diagnosis, many aspects of my life have been defined by others’ perception of Dyslexia, which caused me to have a negative outlook on my learning disability. Through the progression of my educational career, I began to realize that my learning disability was a blessing in disguise.
You know that feeling when someone is talking down to you? Well, that’s what I felt when I was first diagnosed with dyslexia and was segregated for the other students to learn to read and write. As in first grade, I did not know what dyslexia was or why it made me different from other people. What I did understand was that many people from my peers to my teachers saw me as less than them. This feeling of being be looked down upon was felt through most of my education, but I was able to overcome the feeling .
Imagine receiving a task of writing simple alphabets with your toes, and being expected to complete it without any help rendered. Does it not seem like an impossible feat? This is exactly how it feels like for people who suffer from mental disabilities to write out letters A to Z using their hands. Just thinking about it, I can already imagine the frustration. Looking at the bigger picture, imagine the anxiety and anger that they face everyday, having to wake up daily to try and complete a series of tasks that society expects of you, although it is much harder for you to.
We live in a competitive society where everyone always wants to be the best and take that glorious number 1 spot. Some people are born naturally smart and don't have to struggle or suffer to survive in our modern world. However, some of us aren't so lucky and are left handicapped for life whether we like it or not. My burden was and is a language disorder, discovered at the age of 5. This disorder made my studies and expressing myself very difficult and I realised that it would affect and impact my life in many ways.
Quick learner As a student I spent a year living and studying at a university in Tokyo. On arriving in the country I spoke barely a word of Japanese and had zero reading or writing ability. Over time, I was able to pick up the language at an accelerated pace, quickly becoming conversationally proficient and able to read and write to a good standard.
In order to be good in a language, one must have a proper mind set. Students tend to look at a particular language and label it tough and difficult. Hence, without the proper mind set, it is evidently much harder to gain knowledge of a particular language. Language does not come easy to those who have a bad attitude towards it. Hence, resulting in poor communication skills.
First of all, my experience of learning English was a great process which took fifteen years as a Turkish native speaker. When I was seven years old, I started to learn English and I am able to learn languages. When I was five years old, I was watching cartoons in English and in my opinion it was so helpful for me to learning a new language. I have been learning English for fifteen years including my college life. I studied American Culture and Literature in Bilkent University.
