Important Announcement
19 June, 2020 at 1:39 PM
Effective June 19, 2020, ELC is no longer offering year-round programs. This applies to both on-line and on-site programs. We are also no longer an IELTS test center. For 2021, we will continue to offer our Summer Junior Programs at UCLA, Boston University, and UCSB as well as our Adult Summer Campus Program at UCLA.
For more information or to book a summer course for 2021, please contact [email protected]
Important Announcement
19 June, 2020 at 1:39 PM
Effective June 19, 2020, ELC is no longer offering year-round programs. This applies to both on-line and on-site programs. We are also no longer an IELTS test center. For 2021, we will continue to offer our Summer Junior Programs at UCLA, Boston University, and UCSB as well as our Adult Summer Campus Program at UCLA.
For more information or to book a summer course for 2021, please contact [email protected]
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.
