My very first English class happened when I was in Middle school.

My English teacher told me "your pronunciation is good" when I read some

sentence. Since that moment I was so interested in English. Besides his last name same was mine. Also he was generous. too. I have started my acquisition English  journey from that time. It was long and wrong. I still quite difficult when I am in conversation with foreigner. So I choose experience of fail.

He explained in detail with passion in every classes. He often check of students' understanding. We answered yes,yes, We seemed understand at that moment. But easy to forgot. It focused reading and writing. So we read most all of textbook and handed in test words sheet. Also wrote down a lot on white board. I tried take a note every single spell to memory. My motivation was to get high score of English exam.

I made it every exam. I was so proud of my test result. But I know now he was just excellent explainer, T-centered lecture, ignored speaking skill

based on grammar, couldn't communicated between teacher and students, besides plenty of homework, I should have a good memorization. I couldn't create my own way of ideas. Just followed his old traditional guiding. I joined a famous institute because most students did. But he was exactly same as school's teacher.

I entered high school. My English teacher lived near my house. He cheered me up in many ways. I studied so hard of course. But I was getting tired this way to acquire English. All I needed to study for exam only like a machine. But

couldn't complaint those period. I had to enter decent University. He did his best but still he was focus on exams, strict. T-centered, typical old traditional way to teach. As I remembered he has excellent linguistic knowledge but poor skill to teach. All students goal was pass University exam. So we couldn't do any activities for fun. Not only him but majority of teachers are same that time for sure. I never heard something new style of method. Sadly I had given up University for some reasons.

I entered open University when I became adult. My major was English and English literature. I was goal-oriented. That was much more modern style than middle or high school. University had plenty of auditory and teachers' lecture of videogram. Because we needed to study self-directed. I watched and listened repeat over add over. I enjoyed studying the reason why we had variety of subject, especially part of literature. I could acquire different experience and knowledge. Group study was valuable. We learned listening, writing, reading, speaking skills, too. But these were totally T-centered, time efficient, focus input concern, even speaking skills studied by myself. Anyhow I graduated University.

It took 5years to me. Lots of students gave up before graduation because of

requires grand patience for input as much as we could.

I have taught 11 years. Sometime I received some modern education by my company.But  I use old skills a lot when I meet my students. I teach them individually. I eager to teach them with fun, communicate each other, output skills, variety of activities, students-centered, etc. I was aware of responsibility for my teaching skills from my whole heart. I want to be a modern style of guide. I was looking for what I have to learn first. TESOL came up to my mind. I am really really glad attend this TESOL class. Always remember what is my jop for " to creat the conditions in which learning can take place"

82WKT 오복희 (Gina)

Fail of my English acquisition experience