Problems with learning English in my Country Nowadays, English is our international language, the importance of English cannot be denied. With the help of developing technology , English has been playing major role in many aspects, such as, economy, technology, politics, and education. English is also used in many international events, such as seminar, public discussion. Although English is commonly used in the world, in Indonesia especially, English is rarely used in the society.
For example, students only used English in school while the English subject is being learned, they never used it in their family or their society. That is one of the problems learning English in my country, Indonesia. And I think the other problems are the less interest and the lack confidence to learn English. Firstly, the less interest in learning English. People just haven’t realize that English is important things that must be mastered in the modern world, we can’t deny that.
Maybe most of the people just think that English is just complement thing and we don’t need to master that. But from what I believe, English can take us anywhere, just like my English lecturer said. I think, what every school must do is encourage their student to learn English seriously, as serious as they learn math, science and many other subject that interest the student. But the problem is that in Indonesia, we can’t just pick our favorite subjects, we are all forced to learn every subjects in school.
The Review on English Language problems experienced by overseas students in Australia
International education is of major significance to Australia. The number of oversees students enrolled in Australian higher education institutions rose from 24,998 to 210,397 between 1990 and 2003. Most of the students come from countries where English is learnt as a foreign language. It is noted that in Australia, education is the third largest export service after tourism and transport, ...
And the students can’t focus and improvising their talent and interest to their favorite subjects (Sorry a bit out of topic).
But let’s back to the topic, so the importance of English should be introduced to everyone, and the interest itself will come from people who understand that. Secondly, since we know the importance of English, we still face a problem, it is the lack of confidence in learning English. Some people have no confidence to speak and write in English, even that they are interested in English.
They afraid they will have a bad pronunciation when speaking, and a wrong grammar in writing, and if everyone realize his/her mistake they will get laughed from everyone in class, that’s one of Indonesian bad culture. Obviously, the confidence of people who get laughed at will reduced. We should stop that bad culture, the wrong one should be corrected and encouraged. And I guarantee he/she will enjoy learning English because of that.
