Essays on Learning Page 31

In the use of this mixed-methods study, a cross-cultural investigation on English requests applied by Chinese EFL graduate students in some universities has been undertaken. Request, according to Byon (2004), is “a directive that embodies an effort on the part of the speaker to get the hearer to do something” (p. 1674). To a very…

I believe that the first step towards setting and achieving personal goals is that you must realize you have to prepare for the future and not wait for it to happen. Reviewing my life I’ve realized that it has undergone many changes and twists; it is in a constant state of development. The process of…

For family literacy night, one of my topics would be early literacy. The reason I have chosen early literacy is because its development begins early in life and is highly related with school achievement. If a child get limited exposure to literacy at an early age, the more likely he or she will have difficulty…

When it is time to teach a foreign language, teachers have a variety of approaches, methods and techniques they can choose to make learning and teaching process successful. Each approach, method and technique can help educators to reach their goal, depending on what they want to make students accomplish. Therefore, Teachers must have clear what…

Being a teacher is a noble profession that requires passion, dedication, and a genuine love for helping others. Teaching is a rewarding and fulfilling career that enables you to have a positive impact on the lives of students, shaping their futures and empowering them with knowledge and skills that will last a lifetime. As a…

As my first school year comes to end, even sooner than I expected due to the pandemic, this assessment provides an opportunity for me to look back at my experiences in this course. It’ll be difficult to explain how much I have grown as a writer, given the circumstances of my writing assignments, but I…

When looking at the definition of resilience (Oxford English Dictionary, 2018) it speaks about bouncing back from challenges and overcoming difficulties, defining “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness”. Interestingly the same source also makes the comparison of resilience with elastic due to it’s extreme flexibility and mould-ability. When a child is of primary…

In the modern world that we live in today, education is considered paramount. Although in the United States our education level is not nearly at the rank we’d like, we still place a great emphasis on programs to shape the youth of tomorrow. There is, however, one organization for education that is not fueled by…

            Human growth and development entails a process of learning. It is widely believed that the human personality emerges from influences of our experiences with respect to interactions with the environment, parents, peers, and other people.(Gallistel & Gibbon, 2002) Being equipped with the capacity for rational thought, human beings are able to process what would…

Martin Luther King Jr. utilizes persuasive language in his Letter from Birmingham Jail to address the opposition while employing a form similar to the Rogerian Argument. This strategy is aimed at combating human oppression. King effectively rebuts the clergymen’s letter by clearly stating the issue, restating the opponents’ viewpoint and acknowledging its merits, summarizing his…