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My name is Yara. I'm from the Netherlands and I'm starting here in primary education.
I did the English Language Developments course at Kingston University. I learned how to talk
in social and professional situations. Actually it helped me a lot to write reports because
it was kind of different to what I was used to at my own university and the teacher really
helped me with it and if I had the questions she always was er ready to help me and I could
email her and she emailed me really quickly back so I was really er, thankful for that
and that was kind of the biggest learning for me from this module actually.
I'm studying Primary Education at Kingston Hill Campus, er, I'm going to school there
for four days a week and one day a week I go to a primary school here in Kingston, to
er, have some experience at primary schools.
I choose to do core English. I teach children English. I do subject specialist in English.
It's, er, about literature. I don't have the same assignments as the other people in my
class at primary education but I need to write an essay, er, at the end of my semester and
English Language Developments course helps me to write an essay because I know what the
structure is; I know that I have, er, I have to stick to a certain amount of words. I wasn't
used to that actually in Holland, so hmm, so that helps me to er summarise; to shorten
my sentences so that's very good help.
For my, er, school work I used the LRC at my, er, scanner library at University. They've
got er, every book I ever need so I can always get my books if I really want to. I think
it helps to go abroad because of your personal development. I get all kinds of new visions
on education and new opinions so I will take them, those opinions also back to my home
and maybe I can use them in my education, er, when I'm teaching there.
I have to see what I can use when I'm back home from, er, my experience here. The personal
development is, I think, the most important thing of going abroad. I recommend the English
Language Development module because it really helps you to be familiar with the
way of writing in the English education system because it's quite different, it's
er, you always have to stick to a certain amount of words when you're writing a piece
of academic work, so you have to learn, er, how to summarise things, how to shorten
things in your academic work, so there are skills that you maybe need to work on.
Also, to get to learn a lot about the English people. It's finding also how
to learn some specific things about the English, er, culture here, and because you're in a
class with a lot of international students, you're also talking about the difference between
your cultures so you get to know also a lot from different cultures too, so I think,
I think it's a good experience to follow the module because you get to know, not only from
the English culture but also from our cultures, so that's why.