essay #1

Name: Yue Li

In the years and years of learning, people started to summarized the influence on our lives from how we are learning, especially about the study of the language. Language is the most useful tools in the daily life, and it is the first thing people learn once they are born. But oral language was the first form of language people learned, then was the writing format. This logical system last until now, and when people start to learn about the second language, they found that study from oral language is much easier than study from word recognition. 

Study from oral language is like an acquisition, people try to learn it as a born ability. Study like acquire can make the knowledges last longer in their brain, it will become to a part of their life, and it is hard to erase. Now learn consciously seems really rigid, the education in China is pretty much like it, teachers taught us a lot of knowledges in a short period of time and we took test everyday, so we tried to remember everything as fast as we can to deal with the tests, and at the end of the semester, we forgot almost everything. Because memorize is a long time job, people need to review again and again to make sure they do not forget, and that is what happens when people learned with the consciously way. 

When people want to learn languages, they have to get to the meaning of the text, but for the people who do not know this language, it will be hard to remember the words directly, but it is much easier to learn from the background knowledge. For example the word "coconut", if they know "coco" is also a word means head, and "nut" means the fruit with hard shell, then they can remember the word extremely fast. 

The environment of a classroom is also important, students should learn writing from knowledges of the writing process, get interest in writing, and learn the skills. I learned writing with Toefl books and models, that does not help at all, maybe only one type of writing but not the others. Sometimes I did not know why I have to write like that. I am sure I can write so much better if I learned writing from the beginning of the process. And it is so important to get some one to correct the paper, a teacher, a writer, or a reader can do this, they have different of view, when students fix the paper, they should take all the advantages from all the point of view and make them become to their own advantages. 

Attitude of learning will influence weather good or not people will get, correct all the errors positively, feel confidence about themselves, and try to figure out the meaning of the stuff if they do not know the meaning, that is also part of learning, be interested in study is the best energy they can get.

At last, writing is fun, just depends on the way they learn it, and learn by acquisition is much better than learn consciously. And learn languages acquired naturally is such a fun way, it will make all the knowledges last longer and stronger. We will enjoy the writing classes like that.