All
of people know that English is international language, that’s why knowing and
studying English is very important in this era. And many people say that
studying English is very difficult.
Let’s
have a look to the following proverb:
“PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT”
I
think the key to learn English effectively and efficiently is Practice,
Practice and Practice. But the Question is: How improve our four language
skill? “Practice listening, practice speaking, and practice reading and
practice writing?” Okay, I would like to try to give you a short description
about it.
Well, originally… when we still a
baby, we starts studying a language by listen a sound, then we tries to imitate
to speak, and then just read, finally the we tries to write whatever the we
wants. It’s still a symbol. That is the baby way of learning language. Bu, we
are a student, we are a student in a collage, we are different with the babies.
We have partners, lecturer, English reference books, dictionaries, CD’s,
cassettes tape recorder, computer, or maybe we have internets, English
laboratories,, English native speaker etc. those are the facilities to support
us to learn English effectively and efficiently. But, the underline is “it is
depends on us”
Well
my friend let us talking more how to learn about four language skill.
First
is Listening. To explore our ability in listening skill is by practice
listening. We can listening to the cassette recorders. It can be about
alphabets, words, sentences, passages, stories or song. We can practice our
pronunciations, intonation and understanding about content of passages,
stories, or songs from listening activity.
Second
is practice speaking. I think the key to improve our speaking skill is “don’t
be shy or afraid to make mistake” when we practice speaking. We can practice
speaking whenever and wherever by our self. We must be brave to speak English
with our partner and if we don’t have partner we can speak in front of mirror.
We also can practice speaking by giving a comment about anything what we see,
what we feel. So try to speak up. For the example: when you feel happy or sad
try express it in English.
Then
Reading skill. The question is “what should we do to improve our reading
skill???”
I
think reading is enjoyable. For reading skill needs to read the passage or
story loudly, and our partner can checks our pronunciation and intonation. For
the material we can read a passage, story, novel, newspaper or magazine. in
reading comprehension we need to understand the content of the material which
we read and the writer purpose so if we have difficulties to understanding the
content we can put underline in difficult word to help you to understand.
Remember again that dictionary is our best friend.
The
last is writing skill. I think the most difficult one is practice writing. But,
nothing difficult if we always trying, trying and trying, practice, practice
and practice. So to improve our writing skill we can write a personal letter to
our pen palls than we also can write a description of picture or what we see,
what we listen and what we feel.
Well
my friends we can master the four language skill enough vocabularies. We can
improve our vocabulary by memorizing, using card or writing down on the piece
of paper than put it on where we often can see it. For the examples: in the
bathroom, kitchen, and bedroom and so on.
Well
my friends “nothing difficult” and there are many ways to learn English
effectively and efficiently. There are many ways to learn English effectively
and efficiently and it’s depends on us.
originaly from Aira-Fidel ^^
