Experience in Learning English

I have a lot of years studying English as a second language. I can describe my experience I had in the past learning English as follows.

Unlike these days, it was not common for teenagers to learn English in my childhood. But, I even learn English as a second language before entering elementary school. My mother was an English teacher a few years ago at that time, therefore it was possible for me to learn English from her. She taught me and my friends English at home. I think that experience provided an opportunity for me to study English in a very natural way.

I and my friends were taught at a familiar conditions by my mother. Looking back on it now, my mother at the time had us feel more imitate with English through play, whereas learning a second language at an early age tend to give children a sense of aversion. She used audio-visual materials than anything with words written on it. The course became the basis of studying English on my own.

Since then, there was an English class once a week in private primary school. Also, I always received high grades on my English exams in my secondary school days. Especially, as an English teacher knew that I like English and speak it well, he often let me read the text book and translate English into Korean as a class representative.

Consequently, it was a positive effect for me to receive an early English education and have an interest in the second language. Moreover, I certainly believe that the experience in my childhood was successful due to preparing a teacher's certificate now.

Nowadays I have learned Module 1(Adult learner characteristics, Classroom types, Teacher types, etc.) at TIMES MEDIA. Applying the Module 1 to my early education case, my mother was 'an involver' of teacher types. When she read a vocabulary or contents, we followed her pronunciations. That's why she was an involver. She sometimes help us to acquire the second language naturally by playing many ways together. In addition, looking her retention of teaching techniques as the Module 1 shows, both 'Teaching and Mentoring others' and 'Experiential Learning' occupy most of the items. Besides, she used a lot of 'Audio-Visual' materials, like posters, pictures, puzzles, and so on. Also, thinking of 'Effective Teaching' items, she was well organized, gave us clear feedback, listened to her students, and had a sense of humor. At that time, we were so little children that it was important not only to learn the subject matter but also to feel a sense of humor adjusting to English.

For the above mentioned reasons, the experience of my early English education will affect me as a teacher of English in the future. Above all, I want to be an English teacher of young children in relation to my interests for children. To  do that, I definitely think that I should endeavor constantly to achieve my goal and to become a skilled teacher.