My English Language Learning Journey

English has always been a challenge to me as growing up in a Chinese-speaking family. I have had no interest in it. As a result, my grades during my Secondary school days were extremely poor, to the extent of failing my ‘O’ Level English. Even then, I never thought about considered improving it, as I felt it wasn’t important at all.

It wasn’t till I joined Republic Polytechnic. The requirement of presenting and doing reflection journal every day came as a culture shock. I was terrified as I’m afraid the slides I made was were insufficient to get my points across, or when someone question me how I came to that conclusion I couldn’t explain myself well, to a point where my teammates would explain for me instead. The inability to write in simple sentence structure properly along with a limited vocabulary and multiple grammar mistakes I tend to make; reflection journal became a nightmare.

It was a wake up call for me to improve my English. I started seeking help from my classmates, not just on how to explain or write it but understand why is it done that way. Certain modules such as Cognitive also helped me in some way as I learn learnt how to write in proper sentence structure structures, how to rephrase sentences when needed and how I should improve my communication.

Upon graduation, I am glad that I felt my English has improved throughout the years in Polytechnic. It became easier for me to come up with my own slides and explain it myself when needed. , and Communicating with others in English wasn’t as difficult as it was before. Nevertheless, it is still a work in process progress as I hope to further improve myself through other ways. 


Revised on Sunday, 18/09/2016.

Commented on Zainab's, Keith's, and Lin Feng's posts.