English experience

The English language is an important tool to develop in today’s world. Most people have some knowledge about this language around the world because of the influence that the United States has exercised in western culture and society. Because of that, a professional person has to speak and understand English language, and in the University of Chile is not the exception. We have to reach to the level 4 in English to have a good English knowledge.

In my experience, there are – elements that allow learning in the best possible way this language and that we have develop in the English course:

Talk: in every class we use the English language to communicate and express ourselves. The teacher use it too and explain us when we don´t understand but it would be more useful, I think, if we talk more and about simple and daily things because it’s really boring when we just answer questions. It would be better if we can talk freely about the topics that the teacher said.

Read: In the English courses that I’ve taken in the university, this is probably the most deficient part because the activities are centered in the conversation (in the classes) or the writing (in the blogs) but there are not a lot of activities focuses in the reading part, and I think that it`s the most important part because when we became sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist of teachers we will have to read a lot of investigations and books in English.

Write: In the courses, we express ourselves writing the blog’s post every week. This is a really good way to learn this language because we write in our own words what we think about the topic that the teacher propose us. The bad think, according to me, is there is no feedback between the teacher and the student in this part, because even when the teacher make us check the general mistakes, doesn’t correct our personals mistakes, and without that feedback we can’t improve our writing experience.

To finish, I would like to say that I´ve enjoy English class even when sometimes is boring. But I think that with the resources that the university has, we could learn more and reach the important knowledge that we need to develop in the world.