4th Week Reflection

This week About.com is discussing some of the important concerns about teaching writing skills to ESL/EFL students. I can really relate back to my own learning experience when it comes to writing in English. When I attended the IELTS course for academic purposes, I had no idea how different academic writing is comparing to high school composition writing! I felt like I was writing in a whole new foreign language even though all the words were in English. The structure, the usage of tenses (preferably passive voice) and a whole new set of vocabulary; I never thought I would pass the writing section in the IELTS exams…

Although I have only received four emails from About.com for their online learning – Teaching English as a S2, I have gained some very valuable foundation knowledge in this particular area. When I first enrolled in the Teach English papers for next semester, I had absolutely no idea what would I be taught or what kind of difficulties that I would encounter. But after 4 weeks of reading the About.com emails and reflecting on what they had introduced to me, I’m now more confident and I can say that at least I have some clues of what is to come in the next semester.

Albie ^_^