Immersing herself in an English speaking environment was a good way for this English Education major to learn. She read books that have movies such as Matilda.
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Watching The Importance of Being Earnest brought the text to life for this Biotechnology major. She analysed Hills Like White Elephants in her English class. She likes Oscar Wilde for his sarcasm.
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A teacher used songs to help improve this Engineering Management major’s language skills and teach him about different cultures. He thinks the DSE reading passage is too difficult.
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Having group discussions was a useful way to practise this Economics major’s English speaking. After reading The Hunger Games, he read a classic novel by Franz Kafka.
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Studying grammar made this Computer Engineering major fall asleep during English lessons. He likes watching films in English but Chinese subtitles help him to understand the dialogue. He browses Stack Overflow for programming solutions.
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Tutorial centres provided additional learning opportunities for this English major during senior secondary school.
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Studying English in university was better than secondary school for this Psychology major. Due to her interest in psychology, she enjoys reading her textbooks and course material.
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Speaking with foreigners at her workplace gave this Fashion Retailing graduate the confidence to use English and improve her language skills. She read articles and texts provided by her teachers.
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Group discussions in secondary school was difficult but useful for this General Management major. The Last Lecture was an inspiring book.
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Starting in an EMI secondary school was difficult for this student because she felt her English was bad. She worked hard and improved a lot in one year’s time.
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Peter Pan is the first book this English major had read. He has to make sure the grammar is correct whenever he presents in university classes. One of his favourite books is George Orwell’s 1984.
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A teacher who pronounced a word incorrectly made this Journalism major realise the importance of learning phonetic symbols. Tales from Shakespeare was a required text in secondary school. He felt that the lines in Romeo and Juliet were strange.
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NETs helped this History major improve his spoken English. He learns English words and phrases through reading books.
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A NET’s encouragement made this Arts major have more confidence in speaking English. As a fan of Harry Potter, she listened to audio books and learnt the British accent.
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A teacher’s emphasis on acting rather than grammar encouraged this trainee doctor to express herself bravely in drama. Reading books such as Safe Haven let her know more about other people’s lives.
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Shakespeare has been central to this Geography major’s English learning. She watched a Shakespeare movie without subtitles during an exchange trip to the US. She also read Twelfth Night and watched two movie adaptations.
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Movies has kept this Medicine graduate interested in English. His favourite book is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. He understood it more when he read it again.
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University English classes interested this Communications major because the teacher prepared a lot of activities. Books give her more room to imagine.
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While chatting online with friends from Korea and the US, this Nursing major improved her English. She likes Roald Dahl’s books and prefers to read alone.
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An exchange to the Netherlands required this Business major to speak English. Reading an article for an English course enhanced her understanding of Korean culture.
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Kindergarten phonetics lessons with a NET has given this Communications major confidence in his pronunciation ability.
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Lessons on how to write a university final year project were useless to this Mechanical Engineering major. He reads English news and prefers books in Japanese.
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Tutorials with NETs arranged by her mother during primary school allowed this Business major to gain more confidence in speaking. The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks started her reading journey in Secondary 1.
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Using English at school enabled this Business major to learn the language ‘unconsciously’. Although her teacher chose Of Mice and Men and The Merchant of Venice for IB literature she enjoyed them.
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Watching movies, listening to music and playing computer games complemented the English lessons with a NET for this International Studies major. He has read a lot of books including translated versions.
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Her high school teacher in the UK helped this Economics and Finance major improve her English speaking skills. And she benefited from reading the China Daily aloud.
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Movies are the main source of English for this Social Science major. She started to read more fiction in university including Gone Girl and Paper Towns. She also reads English textbooks.
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Overcoming a fear to speak with others is this Computer Engineering major’s biggest obstacle with English. He didn’t use the language a lot in secondary school so he watched YouTube videos about sports. He read materials on engineering.
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Memorising texts helped this Chemical Engineering major remember sentences that can be used in communication. He mostly reads textbooks.
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A NET talking about life made this Business major enjoy lessons. She reads Wikipedia and journals. She watched Kingsman: The Secret Service which let her learn the accent.
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Going on an exchange tour to Canada in secondary school was a good way for this Nursing major to practise English. She reads newspapers such as the South China Morning Post online to understand what is happening in society.
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Sharing in primary school class enabled this Arts major to learn new vocabulary and practise speaking to an audience. She came across Old English when reading Othello in literature class.
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Doing an English show-and-tell in primary school required this Life Science major to speak in front of a large audience. He also had to complete spoken English exams.
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Workshops by international tutors in this student’s university provide an alternative way to learn English. She uses little English in her part-time job in a theme park.
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English media has been the best way for this student to learn the language. She believes English is important for her future work.
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A complaint by her supervisor motivated this Textiles major to take English writing and speaking classes. She picked up reading and started to like the language because of an encouraging secondary teacher. She enjoyed reading P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern.
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Participating in the Harvard Model Congress Asia in university enabled this Accounting major to speak with people who use English as their first language. She read a set of Ladybird books given by her aunt.
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Meeting foreigners who shared their lives in their home countries sparked this Economics major’s interest in learning. His mother read the Bookworm storybook series to him. He reads popular novels and the newspaper.
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Studying in a unique primary school in Shanghai that was dedicated to learning foreign languages developed the communication skills of this Economics major. In middle school, he read the dictionary every day.