Monday, December 7, 2009

Good Place for Studying(rewrite)

Everyone needs a place, which can help us to study effectively. It is very essential to pick up a suitable place. If you need a good place to study, we recommend the library.
First of all, we can not only read books in the library but also can borrow books to read outside and continue reading. The library is a quiet and peaceful place for reading books. We used to do homework in the library. After we finish our homework, we prefer to read different kinds of books to expand our horizons. Furthermore, there are many computers in the public library right now. It provides wireless internet service as well. This is convenient for people who want to check information online or laptop users. When you have trouble while you are reading, you could search the internet as soon as possible without going out. Last of all, the library has a perfect environment to study. When we study at home, we will be disturbed by TV, family members and pets. However, we can only forces on studying without any interrupt in the library.
In conclusion, the library has many advantages for studying. Nowadays, the library is not only a simple place for reading any more. We enjoy studying at the library.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

How I learn Though The Blog(Rewrite)

The blog is a new way that helps me to learn English. I design the blog and put some assignments in English on the blog. Working on the blog makes me feel happy, because it lets learning not be boring any more. Keeping my blog helps me understand how I learn.
First of all, I have never known which learning styles I belong to before. Since the learning styles assignment, I begin to think about my own learning style and how I can learn best. For me, I am a visual learner and I like to learn using my eyes to see something. For example, I like when the teacher uses different colors to write notes on the blackboard in the class. Thus, when I take notes, I think it is very easy to see and organize. Also,I can remember something while I am taking notes. Moreover, the assignment which talks about a place to study also helps me to think about at which place I like to learn. To be honest, the library is a place that I prefer to learn even though someone thinks it is boring. When I do the project alone, I always focus on the project carefully and do not want to be disturbed. The library has quit environment and good condition to provide books and computer for students. Also, when I have some problems, I can check the computer or book as soon as possible. It brings me a lot of convenient and saves my time to go out finding a computer. Last, Twitter, which connects to the blog, provides a good opportunity for people to communicate. For example, I like to share some informations with people, because I get more information from others that wider my mind. Thus, Twitter is a good place that we can share experience and chat with friends.
In a word, the blog brings me many new things which I have never though about before. Using the blog, I begin to know that having a suitable may to learn is important and necessary. As a result, I need keep my blog that helps me to know more how I learn.

Place to Study (map)


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Monday, November 30, 2009

Monday, November 23, 2009

10 Ways This Blog Helped Me Understand my English Learning Process


1.It's a good begining to use the English website. When the teacher asked us to creat a blog in an English website, we feeled that we must read the English. Then, we can learn not only how to creat a blog but also the computer language in English.

2.We got more reading chances. All of my classmates created the blog and posted their paragraph. We were interested in classmates' paragraphs or any update so that we extend our reading areas.

3.We used to rewrite parapgraph by ourselves eventually. This is a very nice hobby for everyone that we may avoid make same mistake next time. We tried to figure out the correct way after our teacher checked our paragraph by ourselves. Therefore we can memorize the mistake lastly.

4.We enjoy write paragraph than before now. It means we would like write paragraph or essay. Writing is not a hard work for us anymore. We believe when we enjoy something that we can do it well.

5.We can write common. When we view others' blog. If we like his/her article, we will write the common. It can help us to understand the article clearly.

6.We used English more often because the blog. Since the blog was created, we always check the blog and do many assignment on this website. This is a opptunity that we can use English after class.

7.We comunicate with people in English by the twitterSometimes we practice conversation with our classmates in English by the twitter. We also share some experiences of learning English.

8.Google map is also reference to the blog. Using the goold, we can search information in English. It is a fast and easy way for us to check English website.

9.We like work as a group. Group work is new and fresh for us. We had never touth it in our country. We can get more ideas from different members of group.

10.It's a funny way to learning English by using the blog. We can listen to music,talk with each other and put picture on the blog. It makes us feel activity to study English.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Language Learning Styles

There are many learning styles, but we prefer three in particular. Everybody has different learning styles which can help them study effectively. In our opinions, we should choose some suitable methods that make us sutdy compeletly. First of all, we like the visual learning style. When our teacher plays powerpoints or videos in the class, we feel easy to remember what she teaches. Also, we prefer the teacher uses the variety of colors to emphasize the points on the white board, so we can memorize the information quickly. In addition, according to our learning experience we recommend the auditory learning style. Espeically for international students, listening is essential for us. It helps us to extend vocabulary and correct our pronunciation. We listen to the radio when we drive, for we can get a lot of local news from the radio. Anyway, the more we hear, the better we speak. Lastly, we prefer the global learning style. Although our grammar is not that good, we do not have to worry about the grammar rules when we speak English. Then we can be more confident to speak English loudly. To sum it up, we really enjoy these three learning styles. They are the best ways that we found for ourselves.

Friday, November 6, 2009

On Campus




when we swimming , we should use kinesthetic to swim,also we use auditory learning style to hear the teacher how to teach us to swim.






We use visual learning styles to notices there are some new information to be posted in the board. Also, we can read/write to know what are the informations are.





we use visual to see the instruction about the food what you want to buy. When we check or talk to the worker , we need use auditory to hear what the people say.

Monday, November 2, 2009

My First Experience in English Rewrite

My first experience with learning English was good. My first experience learning English in my life happened when I was 10 years old. At last year of the elementary school, we opened English class. Also, I enjoyed my first time with learning English, because it was a good experience for me. First, learning English has a fresh experience for me at that time, and I never had known anything about English before. Also, I was only 10 years old, and people in that age always are interested in new things. Thus, I had activity to learn and know more about English as new languages. Moreover, it was fun to learn English at the classes. In elementary school, we only had Chinese and math two main courses before. Since we opened English class, we never felt bored. We played games and showed a dialogue in the class, and we had more activity between students and teacher. Thus, we did not just stay at the seat and listen to the teacher for whole class. We all felt fun and happy during the English class time. Finally, the first experience learning English was helpful. Although we just learned some easy vocabularies or sentences, I could remember them all and then practiced after the classes with my friend. From the classes, I knew when we met people at morning, we could say “good morning” for greeting each other. Also, I could say “what is your name” to ask people’s name. Those were helpful for me through my first experience with learning English. In a word, my first experience in English brought me a new language, and I began to know English since that. In was a great experience to make me be better in the future.

Monday, October 19, 2009

The VARK Questionnaire Results

Visual: 3
Aural: 9
Read/Write: 1
Kinesthetic: 3

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Learning English Rewrite

Learning English is useful for me. Since I learned English for some years in my home country, and now I am studying more in here, I think learning English is really a good thing for me. First of all, learning English can help me to make friends with many people who come from different countries. As English becomes a national language, people from all around the world want learn English. So I have many international classmates, and we can share the experience of learning English, help each other with studying English and life as well. Moreover, I can study American culture and history through learning English. Watching a movie is a good way to know a country's culture and history, and I can watch American movies to know how the America life and cultures are. Also, I can learn from the teacher and native people, and it opens my mind. Finally, learning English let's me feel comfortable to live here. America's language is English , and we use English everyone. If you do not know English, it may feel hard to buy something or talk with people. However, I feel good to talk to people and buy something because of learning English, so I think it makes my life easy and nice. As a result, learning English is a good way for me to widen my mind and get different knowledge. It is useful for me to become better.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Three Questions

a)Why are you studying English?

The reason why I am studying English is using it to communicate. Since English is a national language, and it use wildly. If we want to talk with people which from different countries, we may use English . Also, studying English is popular, many people want to study English. Moreover, learning English is good for our business in the further. If we do the international business, we need use English to communicate. Thus, that is why I am studying English now, and I think it is very useful.



b)Do you often use English when you are not in class?

Actually, I do not often use English when I out of the class. As most of my friends speak same language with me, we use home language to talk about, never use English. However, when I go out shopping, I may use English talk to the people who works at the shop, but just few sentences, not too much. As a result, I think I do not use English often after the class.



c)How do you feel about using English?Sometimes nervous, comfortable or....?

I feel nervous when I talk about more details . Since, I need time to think about what I am going to said next, I always said not fluently, and feel nervous. Also, I feel nervous when I talk to native speakers. They speak fast and fluently, and I am a little afraid they do not understand what I am saying, that is why I feel nervous.  However, when I use some easy English , I feel much better and do not nervous, so I need try my best to practice my English.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Improving My English

There are some things I want to improve about my English. Since I have learned English for some years, I can communication with people in English. However, after I came to America, I found my English is not enough to talk with native speaker and read something. Thus, I really want to improve a lots about my English. First, listening. The native speak usually speaks very fast so that I feel hard to catch what he said, and it is bad for communication. Second, reading. About some notice and instruction I can understand, but I can not understand newspapers and study books, for there are many new words for me. As reading newspapers and study books are important in daily life, I need remember more word to improve reading. Third, writing. Now I am learning how to write at college, so it is necessary for students. For me, I feel hard to organize sentences, and write more details as well. To be a student, I need to improve my writing in order to get a good score. In a word, no matter how hard it is, I will try my best to improve my English.