In this semester, Madam Ira teaches us English for Language Teachers. We are going to learn about phonology, morphology and syntax. I feel grateful to learn English for I can speak another language and also can gain more knowledge about English language. Language is an expression of ideas, feelings through sound, body language, gestures, writing and facial expression.
The first week, we discussed about how culture affects English language from the aspects of multicultural society, urban and rural settings, political/historical influence and educational policies. For the tutorial of week 1, we were asked to discuss how culture affects English language. After the presentation of our discussion, Mdm. Ira had asked us to do more research on the outcomes of our discussions so that we could write and prepare good quality of essay about how culture affects English language for our assignment for this semester. I think, I should work hard for this semester to make sure I can catch up for all topics.
For week 2’s lessons, we learnt about function of language, non-verbal communication, speech organ, and English sounds such as the vowel and diphthong sounds. For example this week each group was asked to prepare and present a 3 minute mime (non-verbal communication) and the other students need to guess of the situation. I enjoyed and had fun. It was an interesting activity. I also learn various tongue twisters beside what I had known before. Then, we have to carry out a dialogue session where we insert as many functions as possible in the dialogue. In this week, our class had presented a language function of a role play. In this task, we had to act it out and our classmates need to identify the language function. For example: to greet, to remind, to complain, to explain, to suggest and many more. Learning English should be fun so that we will not feel bored and scared of English. It was great. It was interesting and fun. I enjoyed the learning process.
For week 3, our main focus of study still about the topic of Introduction to Phonology (English sounds—vowel/diphthong sounds). I think that these vowels and diphthong sounds are really complicated and difficult to remember all the different sounds that produced by the each of the unique vowels and diphthong. Besides, we also tried to pronounce English sounds. I found out it was so interesting. There were some of the symbols where I got confused. Now I know that my English is not correctly spoken because there were some words I did not pronounce it as it should be. Mdm. Ira had asked us to say out the sound of the vowel and diphthongs sounds clearly. It was fun learning the vowel and diphthongs sounds because some of the sounds are weird when we pronounced them and we laughed throughout the lessons. I know that the vowel and diphthongs sounds are very hard to learn. However, I will try my best to learn about them and improve my English pronunciation.
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