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Learn English By Yourself
Learn English By Yourself
A How-To-Do-It Presentation
by Khalid Al-Dossary
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Why
How
Why
How
TopicsTopics
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Learn English by Yourself Why?
• Work and business (Knowledge is power.)
• Day-to-day activities
• Cross-cultural awareness and international communication [Open a venue to the wide world (globalization).]
• Mental growth and development (Your mind: Use it or lose it.)
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Have excellent communication and better interaction
Utilize fully your unlimited potential for growth and development
Function better in a changing world
Why?English helps you to…
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4. obtain cultural enrichment
5. become a life long learner
6. increase your overall competence and skills
Why?
English helps you to…
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Learn English by Yourself
Why?
• You really have no other choice.
• People who master English as their second language always do so by work that is beyond what they did in the classroom.
• Conventional Ways of learning English:
Traditional ESL programs, British Council, Saudi Aramco English, TOEFL Preparation, etc. are all designed for a limited level of English.
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Learn English by Yourself
HOW
• Make a plan for addressing all four language skills
Listening
Speaking
Reading
Writing
• Emphasize the skill that is most important to you but give adequate attention to the others as well.
• Also look for activities that integrate the different skills.
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How To: Listening
• Conversation with native speakers
• Conversing with yourself (reading aloud)
• Selected television and radio shows
Listen only
Listen and repeat
• Lectures
• Language teaching cassettes
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How To: Listening
• Conversation with native speakers
The best way; don’t be shy.
• Selected television and radio shows
News programs
Talk shows
Entertainment shows (good source of current language usage, idioms, slang)
Documentaries
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How To: Listening con’t
• Lectures
Take a recorder. (Listen & Repeat)
• Language teaching cassettes
TOEFL Prep listening tapes
Complete courses on CD
• Learning English by The Learning Company (American English)
• Flying Colours by Macmillan/Heinemann (British English)
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How To: Listening con’t
• Listening lessons on the internet
Eviews Listen to Interviews
http://www.eviews.net/index.shtml
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
• http://www.esl-lab.com
English Listening Lounge
• http://www.EnglishListening.com
English Channel: ESL
• http://www.hio.ft.hanze.nl/thar/default.htm
Search (There are many others. Let me know when you find an excellent site.)
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How To: Speaking
• Conversation with native speakers
(Spontaneous and planned or rehearsed)
• Conversation with other English language learners
• Pronunciation lessons in English courses
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How To: Reading
READ. Don’t study reading. Read.
And then
• Un-simplified Novels
• e.g. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Professional Journals
Getting started
• Graded readers
• Children’s books
• ESL textbooks
Moving on
• Graded readers
• Children’s books
• ESL textbooks
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How To: Writing
ESL courses and writing exercises
Daily journal
Study or Work-related writing
E-mail; acceptable pen pals
Friends, family studying abroad
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Vocabulary Notebook Entries
A more useful entry:
Oppose (verb) to disagree with; to work against (definition)
The company opposes testing products on animals. (sentence)
Opposed to sports
Opposed to war
Opposed to marrying someone (extension; adjective)
A useful entry:
Oppose (verb) to disagree with; to work against
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Learning English By Yourself
• Tools
Textbooks
A computer with Internet access
A library
A notebook for
• Journal entries
• Vocabulary
A plan or schedule
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Learning English By YourselfRemember …
• To make a (flexible) plan.
• To work with your learning style.
• Integrate the different skills.
• that you are learning a language not a course
• that most people feel honored that you want to learn their language and are pleased to help you.
• If you stop, start again. (But try not to stop.)
• To put yourself in situations where you have to use English.
• To spend a little money if necessary—buy good texts, hire a tutor.
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Work Together SDLT
Form a self-study or Self-Directed Learning team.
Set objectives
Meet regularly
Vary activities
Have a recorder and a leader
Limit number in the team
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What it takes to turn your plans, including your plan to learn English, into reality?
What it takes to turn your plans, including your plan to learn English, into reality?
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Patience
Practice
Perseverance
Three P’sThree P’s
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Reading
Reciting
Repeating
Reading
Reciting
Repeating
Three R’sThree R’s
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Confidence
Cultural tolerance
Continuity
Effort & Encouragement
Three C’s and Two E’s
Three C’s and Two E’s
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Seek help from
experts, but be your own teacher.
Seek help from
experts, but be your own teacher.
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Improve Your English Communication Skills Recipe
(SDL Learning- Practical Steps)
Khalid I. Al-Dossary
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4. Summarize each article.
2. Read it thoroughly and silently.
3. Look up each word. Make sure you understand each word and its pronunciation.
1. Choose an article of your interest to read about leadership skills, technical skills or life skills, time management, stress management, success in life.
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5. Recite the article & record it. (Visualize audience)
6. Re-visit the summary for further revision.
7. Practice saying the summary to someone.
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8. Listen to the tape in your car or at home.
9. Explain or present what you have summarized to a native speaker (Mentor) whom you feel comfortable with.
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11.Take this language meal at least three times a week.
10.Document articles/readings for future reference. (Profiling)
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Thank you for your attention and my best wishes to you.