Important Announcement
19 June, 2020 at 1:39 PM
ELC is excited to announce that we will be offering our three summer Junior campus programs (at UCLA, UCSB, and Boston) as well as our Adult Campus program (at UCLA) for summer of 2022. Please contact Jennifer McEleney at [email protected] for more information or to book a course.
Important Announcement
19 June, 2020 at 1:39 PM
ELC is excited to announce that we will be offering our three summer Junior campus programs (at UCLA, UCSB, and Boston) as well as our Adult Campus program (at UCLA) for summer of 2022. Please contact Jennifer McEleney at [email protected] for more information or to book a course.
Thanita is one of our students from Thailand. She is going to start her Master’s Degree at Northeastern University in the spring. She has a teaching license in education, but now wants to pursue a master’s in Corporate and Organizational Communication.
When I was 10 years old, I received a very bad grade in English, which made me feel miserable. I decided I wanted to improve my grade and get better in English. It became important to me to get good at English. I thought that If I had more contact with people in English, I would get better at communicating. I asked my mom if I could go out and meet people at the Christian church to talk with them. In fact, this is where I got an American accent. My mom was and is always very encouraging and lets me do what I need to do to improve my English, but she can’t really speak English at all.
Like most people, I found being a student very challenging. Some of my teachers only wanted to teach to the “smart” kids and didn’t care about the others so I felt frustrated a lot of the time. However, there was one special teacher who encouraged me and gave me hope and taught me that everyone mattered. I was really inspired by her and I wanted to become a teacher like her and inspire others.
It’s made me more independent. I can’t rely on anyone else and I have to do things for myself now such as manage my time and money. Also, I have become more open-minded to new cultures and I have learned how to speak my mind. And, of course, my English has improved a lot!
I’m nervous and excited about starting at Northeastern next semester because doing a master’s in English is going to be very challenging. But in the future, after I graduate from Northeastern, I’m not sure exactly what kind of job I want to get, but it will have to do with communication technology, and it will be in social media in some capacity.
