Improving English Language Skills

Three Easy Ways to Improve English Language Skills

The importance of improving English language skills is urgently needed to be prioritized since one of the most required qualifications in employment is the ability of using English. Even though the curriculum of formal education in Indonesia has placed English as a lesson since at least elementary school, informal learning can help to achieve the goal that English should be fluently spoken by students. However, some students cannot afford to pay English courses or to hire private tutors. Therefore, there are three ways to improve English language skills that can be done easily without spending a lot of money: watching English movies, reading English novels, and practicing English in daily communication.

By watching English movies students will be able to enrich their vocabulary. Because vocabulary mastery is highly needed to conduct whether oral or written communication, students can memorize or make a list of words which they can catch from the movies and listen carefully how to pronounce them. It also enables students’ ability in listening. Getting accustomed to listening native conversation can help students to comprehend English and enable them to speak by replicating their pronunciation. Besides, students also can learn English culture from the movies so that they can learn how to show politeness or impoliteness using English, for example.

The second easy way to improve students’ English language skills is reading English novels. Novels can be means of improving students’ reading skill because the stories can attract students’ interest to keep reading and trying to understand what they talk about. It will be more easily to memorize the structure of sentences, the meaning of words, and phrases written in the novels because students can read them repeatedly.

The last is practicing English in daily communication. Making conversation in English with family and friends can help students to be more confident to use English in their daily activities because they will not be shy if they make mistakes. Practicing English in daily routine can be started by doing simple dialogue such as greeting, making small talk, asking permission, and asking for help. If students are getting used to practice those simple daily conversations, they will try to practice some more difficult conversation such as giving advices and telling stories. Then, they will keep improving their conversation by taking more difficult topics.

In conclusion, there are not only taking expensive courses or hiring expensive private tutors can be done to improve students’ English language skills but also watching English movies, reading English novels and practicing English in daily communication. Therefore, students can improve their ability in using English without paying expensive courses or tutors. 

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