English, Hard or Easy...
Almost 1 year has it been since I taught English.
I think I grew up in some ways.
The environment is indeed the most significant factor
that leads a child to master English in a stable pace.
The earlier you parents push your children into it
, the earlier they get to soak in the atmosphere.
Once you get accustomed to the pressure, you feel no pressure at all.
Little by little, I was convinced of the push-your-child-in-the-earlier-the-better thing.
That's true!
There is a large gap between a child who starts at 7 and the other as a teen.
Children who started early can read and use English by 2 years while the others can't even read KK phonetic symbols and are about to go to junior high.
And grammar knowledge is limited if you can start earlier to learn it.
If you know it well and you'll find out
that there are just a few different modifiers or parts of speech you need to recognize
, such as infinitives, prepositional phrases and clauses
which I look upon as words in odd clothes.
Once the kids master grammar and English, they are able to read profound editorials written by famous columnists from New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post and so forth while sitting next to high school students.
How breathtaking it is!
The focusing on steps of teaching plan stage has gone on to the making students understand stage, which I considered a new milestone to my teaching career.
However, I have got to admit that the following phase is harsher.
Trying every suitable treatment to improve the whole class is never effortless
because it's not a sooner-or-later stuff like accustoming procedures of teaching
but a journey that you search for cure to change students' studying habits.
The new semester is around the corner.
I am going to teach new classes of totally fledgling kids.
I am afraid if I am ready for the challenge though I knew it to be necessary.
To bring a child from none to mastering English, I am about to be tested.
Hope everything goes just fine.
