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Learn English By Yourself

Learn English By Yourself

A How-To-Do-It Presentation

by Khalid Al-Dossary


Why

How

Why

How

TopicsTopics


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.)


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…


4. obtain cultural enrichment

5. become a life long learner

6. increase your overall competence and skills

Why?

English helps you to…


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.


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.


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


How To: Listening


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


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)


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.)


How To: Speaking


(Spontaneous and planned or rehearsed)

• Conversation with other English language learners

• Pronunciation lessons in English courses


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


How To: Writing

ESL courses and writing exercises

Daily journal

Study or Work-related writing

E-mail; acceptable pen pals

Friends, family studying abroad


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


Learning English By Yourself

• Tools

Textbooks

A computer with Internet access

A library

A notebook for

• Journal entries

• Vocabulary

A plan or schedule


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.


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


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?


Patience

Practice

Perseverance

Three P’sThree P’s


Reading

Reciting

Repeating

Reading

Reciting

Repeating

Three R’sThree R’s


Confidence

Cultural tolerance

Continuity

Effort & Encouragement

Three C’s and Two E’s

Three C’s and Two E’s


Seek help from

experts, but be your own teacher.

Seek help from

experts, but be your own teacher.


Improve Your English Communication Skills Recipe

(SDL Learning- Practical Steps)

Khalid I. Al-Dossary


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.

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