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The English language at the school

Auto Date Monday, March 17th, 2008

Studying a new language always means a challenge. The voluntary learning of any activity and in this case of any language it involves necessary characteristics for its suitable learning, such as dedication, witness, effort and so on. When one decides to study or to learn something voluntarily these characteristics are understood, but when the learning appears as an obligatory measure, it is very difficult to centre these factors and to do of the learning a good experience.

When the experience of learning a new language, in this case English, does not come accompanied from a voluntary decision, it is difficult to face it. This happens often in the high school stage. Many schools offer the English language as part of the educational training, raise the English as a useful language for the educational later training and professional, then devote themselves to implant(implement) the American language inside the curricula of education. For the students there is no option to escape to the learning of the new language.

Because of the impending fact that arises, the student often stranger to the importance of what it means learning a new language and also unrelated to what it is today learn English, look with laziness the obligation for having to learn a new language and rather sees it as a heavy subject that will have to carry more likely for the next two years.

So, the best is to seek alternatives to the new learning is not considered a liability or a nuisance. We must begin by recognizing and analyzing the factors that the student normally denies the possibility of learning English. First, the vision to see learning as an obligation, because this course is imposed by the school. What we have to do to forget or change this idea is to look for positive reasons that could be important to learn this new language, finding suitable as personal reasons to learn English becomes a priority among the goals.

Thinking that English is considered as the universal language, the most important and most used in the sectors of education and business throughout the world, that can open endless opportunities to study abroad, in the UK or in States United, two of the most sought-after destinations for students everywhere. We may include within the positive factors, which studied in school age is an advantage, not only because this is the time when better and the easier it makes us learning anything, but also because the available time is much higher, then the student have enough time to practice, rehearse and have an optimal performance in the classes.

Then, when the student finishes the school and enters to the university, it is very common that he or she get a job, so time becomes a problem for studying something. Another positive factor is that to learn English in the student stage, it gives us the chance to explore other things in the future or even to learn a new language later. If we look at the long term, we specific English as a possibility of opening new doors, the globalized world is increasingly demanding and those in the ability to communicate more easily with the highest rate of people (I mean in the issue of language), it will be preferred by any corporation and in whatever area. We can start with these important factors to consider school English classes.

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