After having learned an alphabet in third grade of elementary school, I've attempted a lot of English studies for 15 years. But whenever I studied ESL(English as a Second Language), I experienced much more failures than successes, and when I fail, I always thought that it is a problem of fear regarding other languages and teachers. However, after taking a TESOL class, my thought changed a lot. I knew that I also didn't know about myself and the things that I need to study. It seems that I am not failed but there were so many reasons that I couldn't success.

Therefore, now on, I will write an essay about What the important factors are in ESL teaching environment, using an experience that failed than succeeded that I went through personally.

Primarily, majority of my English classes were composed of traditional education's aspects and their teaching types were explainer. So they always used patter drills and chalk boards with chalks and classes were focused on teacher-centered way. As I get older and in my high school days, classes turned more boring. Especially my third grade of middle school, my English teacher always made us to write long sentences about one topic. I really hated that time. So even now I don't like writing something using English because of that experience. That was a class which didn't consider 'Krashen's hypothesis- Affective Filter'. At that time studying English was a stress for me, and I was afraid of the teacher.

Secondly, I didn't have much opportunities to be exposed to learning English. Now in my English academy I have a lot of speaking opportunities, but heretofore I couldn't. I learned a lot of grammar knowledges and vocabularies in the class, but there was no chance to use them practically. Also, I always doubted when I spoke something in English because I was worried about my mistakes. The fear of English increased as I grow up, I felt ashamed of myself and it became harder and harder to speak in English confidently. In other words, at that time, I lost my confidence and defense reaction increased like a monitor theory.

For the third, studying English was not interesting. When I was a high school student, it was just to get good grades in tests and even when I went to the Philippines to study speaking skills I just had classes for 5 hours in a small room. The class always had similar contents to make me review the things I learned and it made me to lose interests in class. By then, there was no input(I+1) for me.

Lastly, I also didn't know effective ways to study English for myself. According to a Gardner's multiple intelligence theory, I am visual type. If I have studied English with various pictures, not just memorizing it blindly, I would have succeeded. Like this, looking back over my career, I could establish my study values about ESL.

First of all, the most important thing is that studying should be interesting, not scary. For this, first, teachers should not satisfy by the way of traditional class. They should study and research various materials. Teachers should make various kinds of activities, for example, singing, chatting, playing a game, role-playing, etc. They can make the students to have lower sense of fear and afraidness. It has a great similarity with 'Affective Filter Hypothesis' and is closer to a Involver among the three types of teachers. And secondly, the teacher and the student, both of them need to know their own talents and developed intelligence. When they know the right way in studying, they can make more appealing classes. For this, they should find their developed field among the seven fields by taking test of Gardner's multiple intelligence theory.

Second value is teacher's constant feedbacks and supply of interests. However a teacher teaches English interesting, if the student doesn't have a right feedback, it can not be an effective learning. Therefore, teacher constantly give feedbacks to students and make up for the deficiency of the students' learning. But when they give a feedback, it shouldn't be given unconditionally but it should be done regarding of their own research after giving some time to study their works by themselves. And also in learning, they should offer proper I+1 to the students so that they can have interests continuously.

Finally, teachers should make students to be exposed to the environment of using practical English. The purpose why we learn English is to use it in our actual life, not just for the exam. So students should have lots of opportunities to speak aloud and use it in their lives. To do this, teacher's explaining time have to be decreased and give more time to students to do activities. Teachers also should not forget to encourage students with compliments when they have a presentation.

By writing this essay, I looked back on my own learning and I also had time to make a resolution for my ESL teaching belief. In teaching, I thought that I should research and develop myself constantly and I want to make my students to study more effectively and have more fun in learning with my experience.