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Date Posted: 04:12:08 01/28/04 Wed
Author: Alexandre Righi
Subject: My Task # 14

I’m a very autonomous person, for everything, not only for language learning. I’m very curious and I’m not afraid of making mistakes, maybe that’s why I get to learn many things by myself. With English, for example I was kind of addicted to video games when I was a kid. I had to play them for hours everyday, and since nearly all games were (and still are) in English, and I had to understand what I was supposed to do, I couldn’t afford an English course, so I always had a dictionary close to me. It was a “process of non-institutional learning” (p. 2). So, mainly I learnt vocabulary, then when I went to the U.S. for the 1st time -in 97- I could follow grammar patterns I was immerse in. To classify my level of autonomy accordingly to Numan (1995), I can say that I’m a level “5-Transcendence” (P.12). I remember when I was in a U.S. school improving my English, when an American guy came to me and said: “I wish I was rich”, then I corrected –impolitely, but he was a close friend: “I wish I WERE rich”, I could “make links between the content of classroom learning and the world beyond the classroom” (P.12). I think I leant some English because I wanted to. You cannot inject into a person’s mind what he or she doesn’t want to. They must in the first place want, and then we can as teachers follow the best strategy.

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