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Essay About English Language

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In Malaysia, English language is stereotypically considered as a person’s second or third language. Majority of Malaysians’ native language is Malay for Malays, Tamil for Indians, Mandarin for Chinese or colloquial dialects for those from rural areas. In this paper, I would reflect on my English language learning experiences.
It has been more than eighteen years since I first learned the English language. There are many factors which contributed to my proficiency in the English language. One of them is early exposure to the language. Growing up, I was exposed greatly to English as a second language. My journey in acquiring English as a second language began from learning at home to receiving education in each level of school to today where …show more content…

The books that were used were from Peter and Jane book series. There was a reading teacher hired to sit at the back of the class and students were called one by one to read to the teacher personally. The process was difficult in the beginning as some of English words do not sound the same way as they are spelled. In example, back then I did not know that some of the inflection –ed used in past tense words were inaudible, such as the word ‘worked’. The reading process was divided into 4 levels and students with faster pace, managed to complete their readings in a short amount of time. After the students were done reading specific parts of the books, we were required to write the sentences we had difficulties in pronouncing to practice our writing skills. At such a young age, quite a number of the students faced troubles in writing words, some would write the alphabets in their inverted forms. I believe that this process was a big help to the students including myself as speaking is generally easier than reading and writing. In addition to that, if the students managed to behave themselves in the best possible manner, the teacher would reward us by letting us watch English cartoons such as Barney and Friends or Bananas in

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