Tuesday 29 March 2011

Learning English in Class or at Home

Text by student Jarana Thongpak

Introduction: Why we have to learn English?

- Official language
- Learn new knowledge
- Make new friends

Paragraph 1 : Some people learn better when they are alone vs. a group.

- Alone: time to remember
- Group: discuss and create new ideas

Paragraph 2: Benefit of learning as a group in class

- motivation
- Faster
- Well-structured
- Won’t get lost

Paragraph 3: argument

- Suit some people with children , no money, no car

Conclusion: Learning English is important and it is faster and good basic.
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It is a well-known fact that English is the most important language in the world because it is the international language that most countries in the world set it as the official language. Learning English helps you to be able to communicate with everyone in the world. If you don’t study English, you will have less opportunity to get a good job and understand advanced knowledge which is often written in English. Moreover, you won’t be able to communicate and make more friends from different countries if you don’t learn English.

People learn best in different methods. Some people learn quickly by reading books themselves because they have more time to process the information and remember it. Other might learn better when they go in a group. They can share and discuss more knowledge and gain new ideas with the teacher and friends. Personally, I learn best in a group and I strongly believe that learning English in class is much better than learning from home alone.

Firstly, it is widely known that people can be motivated by others. When you come and learn English in class, you will be motivated to learn more so you can communicate with your friends and realise that it is not too difficult to learn English as everyone in class is trying to improve and coming to class. You will not give up easily. Secondly, the teacher can provide the correct information and well-structured materials in class. Often when people study at home by themselves, they can get lost and spend a lot of time learning English incorrectly which create a wrong practice and it is difficult to fix in the future.

On the other hand, learning English at home suits some people who cannot effort to come to class. For example, those people who have small children and don’t have time to come for 1 or 2 hours after work because they have to look after their children. Some people who don’t have money to pay for the class or have no car to travel to class, learning English from home give them the flexibility to learn at any time when it is possible.

In conclusion, learning English is very important and provides a lot of benefits to the students. Learn English in class provides a better foundation for the students than learning it from home.