Life of an English Major student: A rollercoaster-like experience

                    Being an English Major student means he/she can take the path of teaching later on after graduation. After learning the concepts and acquiring the necessary knowledge, the next stage is attempting to apply it in real life scenarios. As of writing this blog, I am done with Field Study in which it is needed to do classroom observations and become exposed on what is happening on the teaching field.                     The teaching field can be illustrated as a jungle filled with wild animals because a teacher will encounter students and their parents as well. Bonds will form between teacher and students, forming relationship where a teacher can touch the heart of the students by applying his/her art. And in return, students will be part of the teacher's rollercoaster like memories while being engaged on the field.         ...

                     Literature appears boring and not fun with others at first sight because it is just words and no pictures and will put anyone to sleep. But if we look literature differently and try to read a genre of literature, it says otherwise. Yes it is still filled with words let us accept that but if we use our own imagination while we read, we will find literature as useful. Literature is the another wide domain that an English Major student will be tackling while pursuing this course.                  As an English Major student, he/she will know that there are actually five macro skills that is inborn within us and must be improved for latter use or upon growing up. These macro skills are: Writing, Listening, Reading, Writing and Viewing. Sadly on today's generation, the macro skill Reading is left out as this spells doom because that macro skill is so es...

              The course Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in English has its own pathways when one wanted to tackle it later on as his/her college course. A student will encounter subjects where he/she will study about language. Language is a very wide domain as there are so many things that will be discussed and learned. There will be the time where the student will be reviewed about the parts of speech, the difference between a language and a dialect, how a person will learn their own language upon growing up, is the United States has its own official language or not and much more. There will be things that will be covered here.           Noam Chomsky (refer to the image on the left) is the proponent of the theory where a person will adopt his/her first language via a system of principles that children are born with which is called as the Language Acquisition Device (LAD). A person will adopt their first langua...