Personalized Learning Experiences Assignment
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Personalized Learning Experiences Assignment
Added on 2021-04-19
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Running head: PERSONAL LEARNING EXPERIENCEPERSONAL LEARNING EXPERIENCEName of the studentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
PERSONAL LEARNING EXPERIENCEIntroductionThe critical reflection will focus on my personal learning experience in order toimprove my learning skills and ability. Learning Students in my country starts learningEnglish from a very early age that is from grade three. Though schools try to provide besteducation facilities to their students, but it’s not possible for every student to gather the exactknowledge, as sometimes teachers teaches too fast, sometimes the topics are not veryinteresting and for this reason students could not improve their learning skills (Alharbi 2015).The same happened with me, although I seemed to achieve an average score in Englishlanguage, but then it does not help me to improve my English speaking skills. Accordingly,my fluency started deteriorating and as a result I was ashamed of speaking in English in frontof my friends and teachers, and this has also lowered my level of confidence. This essayelucidates on major aspects as how I improved my learning experience with the help ofeffective learning styles and theories.DiscussionLearning has been regarded as a very complex process and every student havedifferent learning process. However, in my school, students are provided with Englishtextbooks but the teachers in our school teach English in native language that is the languagewe use for speaking in our country. As a result, this hampers our learning and speaking skills,although we learn English language at school, but very rarely we practice it within theclassroom. Furthermore, the examination system focuses more on the writing and readingskills, but they do not give any importance to the speaking and the listening skills (Saeed,Khaksari and Ghani 2016). Being a student, this educational system had a negative impact on
PERSONAL LEARNING EXPERIENCEmy speaking skills, as the topmost priority was given to the listening and speaking skills. As astudent, my writing and reading skills were strong, and I used to get high grades in the schoolassessment, but prior to that my speaking and listening skills were very poor and I was notbeen able to cope up with these skills. This had worried me and as a result, I had lost my levelof confidence and by seeing this downfall, my parents were also worried. Though they triedto support me and help me out with every possible ways they can, in order to encourage me,but then it did not work well. However, at that point of time my parents came to know abouta good English professor from some other school in my nearby location. Then my parentsdecided to send to that teacher to take personal teaching class, in order to improve myspeaking skills. That had been a major turning point in my life, as the tutoring class not onlyimproved by speaking and listening skills but at the same point time also increase myconfidence level. The English professor being a charming lady had provided me with extracare and support and was also very competent while teaching English language to all herstudents. While teaching the subject, the English teacher used to implement various learningtheories and styles, so that it becomes easy for students to cope up with the subject. Apartfrom that, my English teacher also applied various training methods such as spaced learningand self learning. Spaced learning is a training method, where the contents will be repeatedthree times with ten minutes break taken twice, so that students can get in depth of the subject(Velastegui et al. 2016). During the break times, students are engaged with physical activitiesthat encourages and help students to switch in to the subject quickly. Whereas, self learningon the other hand is another such technique, which encourage students to learn new things ontheir own, by developing ideas and creativity (Wright and Stokes 2015). My English teacherapplied this self learning technique with the use of mind maps. This has given me freedom toexpand and develop new ideas based on my subject that helped me to improve my Englishspeaking skills. The best thing that I liked about my English teacher is her friendly and
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