How does my student, Zhang Siwen, realize her dream?
She sets high aims for herself. She believes that she would speak English
as well as American TV and radio anchors; she would speak English better
than most of Americans. She has a great dream that some day she would go to
the stage of the CCTV Star of Outlook English Talent Competition. She sete
out to work with the dream,which becomes her spiritual support support and
has been inspiring her to work obsessively. Because her goal is much higher
than those ordinary English learners’, she is far ahead of them. Great
dreams make great man. People are what they think they are. Now she is on
the way to making her dream come true.
She is always making all efforts to turn her dream into reality. She would
spend continuous hours listening to English news broadcast or tapes until
her ears hurt acutely. She downloads English original movies from the
Internet and follows the lines word by word until she is able to speak out
automatically. She would not miss a single chance to improve her English.
Whenever and wherever possible, she would try to express herself in
English.During the days when she was studying in a foreign language school,
she made good use of the foreign teachers there. Even though she is the top
student in my class, she always pays close attention to my lecture.
She has now found the way that is effective and suitable for her in the
years of studying English. For example, she does not try to memorize a new
word by repeating it in a dull way; she learns it by putting it into
practice or through a context.
Persistence is another key factor for her to learn English well. For
years, she has developed the habit of collecting well-written articles
whenever they cometo her. She practices them until she can speak fluently
from her memory. People arw amazed at her excellent English and assume her
to be a genius in language acquisition. But she denies the assumption as
she is convinced that her proficiency in English results from years of
persistent practice and struggles.
I am proud of my student, Zhang Siwen. She will make her bigger dream come
true in future.