Descriptive Essays by Our Advanced ESL Students: Who is a good language learner?

Wu, Yuzhang

Language is one of the most important community tools today. Language can help you communicate with everyone all around the world. A good language learner is someone who chooses different ways to learn that encourages them to grow in communication. Therefore, a good language learner is someone who learns about the culture within the language to understand communication more deeply, listens carefully to everything a native speaker says in order to improve pronunciation, and takes every opportunity to speak in public to learn by error.

In order to learn how to communicate effectively, a good language leaner takes interest in the culture of the language to understand the language at a deeper level. A good language learner always goes to the library to find history books. The history books have a lot of information about language culture. From researching a lot of history books, the good language learner knows part of the language culture and some background information about it. Therefore, he can communicate more accurately because he knows what is behind the language.

Every good language learner tries to master pronunciation so that others can understand him. One way a good language learner does this is by doing to the country of the language because he can then know the true pronunciation of the language. Through the daily talking with local people, he can easily review what he learns. Also, he can record what his friends have said and spend time imitating their talking habits and pronunciation. This will help improve his pronunciation much more quickly.

Learners have to learn the value of speech in public, which takes trial by error. Sometimes errors cannot be caught in everyday conversation, so speaking in public is a good place to study.  He can hear himself out loud and find his mistakes. Some language learners are experts at expressing their thoughts, yet they worry about making so many errors, so they do not speak their mind. A good language learner goes for it! The good language learner has courage to speak publicly and looks for speech errors to correct for next time.

The good language learner needs to learn about the culture within the language to help him communicate more deeply. The learner should listen carefully and try to imitate what native speakers say so that other can begin to understand him more easily. In order to speak well, the good language learner needs to take every opportunity to learn by error via public speaking. When the good language learner begins to get a better meaning out of the language, he can become a better communicator in the world.

 

Kim, Dongkyu

How many people can say they work hard at learning and enjoy it? A lot of people around the world are learning different languages. There are roughly 6500 languages spoken in the world today. Good language learners use their own way of studying when they are learning a new language. A good language learner is someone who researches language, enjoys learning language, and try to learn it.

A good language learner is someone who researches language. One good language learner that researches language is a man by the name of Vos.F. He started Korean studies at the University of the Netherlands. He is western Europe’s first professor of Korean. He taught the Korean language and Korean culture through the Korean studies department. His students and many Europeans have a lot of interest in Korea as a result his teaching.

A good language learner is someone who enjoys learning language. My Grandmother wanted to learn Korea. She couldn’t learn Korean when she way younger because, at that time, she was poor. Eventually, my grandmother went on study at Soul Academy. She was glad to learn Korean even though she was much order. She said, “I’m so glad to learn Korean. It is a really enjoyable experience learning language.” Her Korean language skills have increased a lot.

A good language learner is someone who is trying to learn. ESL international students try to learn English in class. It is the default posture of learning the language in another country. They have learned the important things of language through their teachers and with great effort. Good language learners try to have a sense of responsibility.

The best language learner keep on open mind for language. It takes a lot of effort and sense of responsibility to be a good language learner. Anyone can have a strong desire to learn a language.



Wang, Donghua

Who is a good language learner?  How can they become fluent more quickly than the other language learners? A good language learner is always good at finding and observing how to correct himself in the language he is learning. A good language learner always can discover a correct way to study the language.

As a good language learner, when you study a language, you know yourself and your own personality; as a result, you know your preferred learning style. Not everyone has the same preferred learning style because we all operate differently and that is why we need a personalized plan to study the language for ourselves. For example, a good language might know he is an intense individual. Therefore, he recognizes that his personality has a tendency to always pursue something. This good language learner knows that because of this, his learning style requires a lot of goals. For instance, he might ask himself to speak with ten people in ten different situations in two days.

A good language learner always can use everything around them to help themselves learn the language. Actually, we have a lot of things around us to help us learn the language such as the language within sports, music, and movie For example, when the good language leaner is playing basketball he actually has to communicate with his teammates, and therefore, he has to use sentences and words in his target language. The good language learner can also challenge his language learning through watching movies and listening to music. The conversations and lyrics provide real life opportunities for listening comprehension. Especially, with movies he can also learn how to communicate with others. If the good language repeatedly takes these opportunities, he will be able to commit his learning his learning to memory at any time.  

The good language learner is not afraid of making mistakes and not afraid of what they do not know. Furthermore, he always remembers every mistake no matter if he is speaking, writing, or reading. He actually not only remembers the mistake, but also knows how to correct it and use it correctly to avoid making it again the next time. In fact, a good language leaner desires these drawbacks in order to have an opportunity to correct them.

            A good language learner should know himself and his own personality, as result; he knows his preferred learning style. At the same time, the good language learner is not only good at using a lot of things around him to help himself learn the language but also is not afraid making mistake and not afraid of what they don’t know. In the end, the good language learners always know how to discover what is he actually need, and then control it.