by Estefanía Miranda » Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:24 pm
What I liked the most about my education is that I never had a teacher telling me that I wouldn't be able to hold a university degree. Of course, there were a lot of things I didn't like about my pre-LOGSE education. One of them was the fact that we didn't learn foreign languages by practising all four skills as present day students do now. Everything was more a question of practising vocabulary and grammar ... as well as reading texts and writing compositions. Thus, when I decided to study English philology at university I spent a whole month trying to understand what lectures were saying in class! Luckily, my hearing got keener to those unintelligible utterances by the end of the first month. As a result, I would have very much loved to have practised more activities / tasks aimed at improving my listening and speaking skills.
My education was based on reading and writing extensively, both in my native language and in the foreign one, which is a thing I really appreciate. I can express myself very well orally and in writing, and it is really an asset when searching for a job, working in sales or even teaching.
The key moment in my education popped up when I was a postgraduate student striving to get a post somewhere in the job market. Academically speaking, I was proficient in English, but I learned loads of words and expressions when working in an English-speaking environment. Those really enhanced my language skills.
What I liked the most about my education is that I never had a teacher telling me that I wouldn't be able to hold a university degree. Of course, there were a lot of things I didn't like about my pre-LOGSE education. One of them was the fact that we didn't learn foreign languages by practising all four skills as present day students do now. Everything was more a question of practising vocabulary and grammar ... as well as reading texts and writing compositions. Thus, when I decided to study English philology at university I spent a whole month trying to understand what lectures were saying in class! Luckily, my hearing got keener to those unintelligible utterances by the end of the first month. As a result, I would have very much loved to have practised more activities / tasks aimed at improving my listening and speaking skills.
My education was based on reading and writing extensively, both in my native language and in the foreign one, which is a thing I really appreciate. I can express myself very well orally and in writing, and it is really an asset when searching for a job, working in sales or even teaching.
The key moment in my education popped up when I was a postgraduate student striving to get a post somewhere in the job market. Academically speaking, I was proficient in English, but I learned loads of words and expressions when working in an English-speaking environment. Those really enhanced my language skills.
