Monday, August 4, 2008

How UiTMT Can Improve Their English

Nowadays, English has become an important language in our life. It has been use in many aspect of our life such as an aspect of work and also in study. Student in school nowadays has been stress about how important English in their life. Not just because most of the books in university are in English but also because all employers need more than academic and curriculum. They need people who can speak fluently in English in their company because English is lingua franca of people in the world.

So, the question is now how to improve English? There are a lots of ways to make it become reality. Initially, we can improve our English by watching English movie or drama. Most of the English movies or dramas appear subtitles on television from that we can learn word by word. It's easy and practical. The English that they use in television sometimes we never heard of it. That's why we need a dictionary to translate the language and to understand the words. At first maybe this method hard for us to adapt but sooner or later we will get use to it.

Besides watching television we may improve our English by listening to English song. We can learn from the lyric of the song. Some of the words in song usually are using daily use English and easy words. So it would let us learn efficiently. But we must remember we got to pick the right word and right song somehow because some of the lyrics could give bad influence such song about worship of satanic. So we have to be smart on this.

Practice speaking English among friends and lecturers also can be effective way. By doing that repeatedly it can build our confidence and improve our grammar. Maybe it needs time to see the impact of this method. So it takes a lots of patience of people who want to learn English. Honestly it is not easy but we cannot give up. We must believe that practice make perfect.

Apart from that, by doing composition in English continuously also can improve our English. When we use to doing a lots of composition we may get use with the words, sentence and composition itself. It helps us improve our English. It could increase our confidence when use English words. We have to practice this many times until we get almost 100 percent of confidence while using English.

When I was a kid my teachers in school always encouraged me to read english materials such as english newspapers and magazines. At that time I could not see the point they asked me to that while I didn't understand what I read about. After continously read I realised the improvement in my essays and daily conversation. I started to use some phrases that I read in those materials. And plus I feel more confidence eversince then.

Conclusion is we need to do a lots of practice in process to improve our English and we must not give up easily. It may takes time so we have to be patience. Take English as enjoyable subject and learn with sincere heart and you will improve your English.

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