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There’s a serious risk at advanced level of not making progress.
There are two basic reasons:
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You know enough English to make yourself understood and to understand at a basic level, consequently you lack
a direct incentive to learn more.
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The vocabulary and grammar that you know is enough for managing communication and be understood.
The vocabulary and grammar that you don’t know is rare, and so you’ll not become familiar with it simply by meeting it frequently.
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You need to devote more time to your study of English
and be more organised with it.
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More homework than you have before, more reading and writing.
More dedication to the use of dictionaries in order to record words.
More time spent using English outside the class for things that are fun:
Reading novels, newspapers, magazines
Browsing the web,
Chatting with foreign people,
Watching films and series in English,
Listening to and sing songs, etc
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Make formal lists of vocabulary and learn them. Learn also set expressions.
Revise any new grammar frequently and every time you doubt about how to employ it.
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Push yourself when speaking and writing to use new vocabulary and grammar.
EXAMPLE: your teacher asks you to write a composition. You begin:
Last summer I went to Valencia. There’s a
nice beach in Valencia where I enjoyed myself a lot.
This is a complete waste of your time and your
teacher’s too! You’re not learning
anything in this composition.
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COMPARE THIS…
Last summer I took myself off to Valencia to a luxuriate on the glorious Caribbean-style
beach which stretches for miles for the coast.
Here, the student is experimenting with new language!
HE IS LEARNING!!!
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He may have used a dictionary and he has also tried to incorporate new expressions and grammar that he has studied.
He has made a mistake (along the coast), however, mistakes are a sign of experimentation, they are a way to learn. DON’T BE AFRAID OF MAKING MISTAKES!
He’s made a CONSCIOUS EFFORT to push past the barrier from the English he already knows to
the English he doesn’t know yet.
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Do a lot of writing…
When you’re writing you’re, or should be, experimenting beyond the limits of your knowledge of English. The value of experiments is that afterwards you can analyse them and learn from them.
Speaking lacks the same permanence: unless you record what you say, you cannot analyse your speech experiment in the same detailed way.
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Realise that is YOU who’s
RESPONSIBLE for LEARNING the language!!!Just coming to classes
and taking down notes are not a kind of magic at the end of which you will know more English.
The only way to IMPROVE your
knowledge is by making a big
EFFORT YOURSELF!
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A very small minority of those who start to learn English become
proficient in the language
You’re half way there already…
DON’T GIVE UP!DON’T GET DEMORALISED!
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You know the difficulties
but you also know the
solutions!
Go forthem!!!