Improving English Skills: A Semester Reflection

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This fall semester in ESL 91 class, has been pretty interesting and so far a success. The main object of this semester has been the essay writing, we were taught various lab techniques that helped us to improve our English writing skills, such as, verb tenses and how to write a research paper with work cited. Throughout working research papers, I have learned how to use compares. But most of all I can say that my reading skills have improved a lot because of the research papers, since then I read a lot. However, I was struggling a lot when I first started. Since English is my second language, I have been going thru so much stressful moments that made me think about dropping out classes, but when I think about my future, I …show more content…

When I went to high school in Ethiopia, I never wrote an essay or paragraph. Therefore, when I start ESL class it was very hard time for me and I never thought that I will be improved my English like this. However, if not because of the help of my instructors today this essay would not be possible, I feel I can write decent essays with still some grammar mistakes. I spent a lot of hours on writing labs and homework help me a lot, even though at times I got tired and bored on homework. That helped me a lot and because of that now I feel confident when it comes on essay writing, I do not struggle like I used to before. However, I am still working hard and improving more every day. I have noticed that harder I work, I am getting better. This experience has showed me that when someone does not give up on the goals that want to achieve, anything is possible with some effort. Therefore I want to study more until I get to the place that I want to be. Hopefully I will become a good social worker if I keep this …show more content…

In addition, I had to figure out how to manipulate them. Today specially here in the US the importance of the usage of a computer and how to browse on the internet is by far a must know, and since my knowledge on this was very poor i was struggling a lot writing my essays. At the point that I would have prefer writing by hand rather than typing. However, it is an everyday practice and I know that soon I will master those skills; sometimes I help other students or classmates whom have problems using computers. Moreover, “the tiger mom parenting style” this essay was, so far, the most difficult essay I have ever written in ESL. I spent more than 2 days because it was my first research paper, and I had to research a lot and work cited. If not because of the importance of computers the writing process would be more difficult, now I can work cited and edit my essays easily. Furthermore, writing many essays on ESL 91 helped me becoming a fast writer, because when I first started typing on a computer, I had a lot of problems. It was hard for me to find the words. I had to take time to find the spellings, but now I can write down without even looking at the

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