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How to Learn English Effectively

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So, you need to acquire proficient English Level 7 and become more fluent to attend a university program in the United States or Europe. You’ve been studying intensively for a year or two, but you do not seem to improve in great strides. How do you get from your present English level to the level where you need to be to excel in all academic skills? Your desire is to make leaps and bounds in the language more quickly, so you can reach your next goals. What are you doing that is not as effective as it could be in your study?

Language Learning Strategy

  • Yes, practice does make perfect, but having patience is also useful in learning English or any language.
  • If you wish to learn and recall better, you need to set and outline the challenges and strengths that match where you are at, highlight the level of where you want to get to, and adjust the way you are learning and acquiring language through your approach to tasks to meet your goal.

Consider creating your own language learning strategies in order to target which technique will help you develop each academic task (a task-based strategy) you need to improve on. After you have a strategy set for each skill, then you need a way to practice those strategies in every day practice. Once you implement the daily pattern of practicing English with your set techniques, you will take note of efficient improvement. Then, use internet technology, create a proper study environment (such as an ideal location, atmosphere, group versus individual study, and minimal distractions,) and make your study tasks interesting so that you will remember most of what you acquire in your sessions. If, on the other hand, you study each day doing some exercises, but you do not have a set technique to approach each academic skill, your study of the language will be a mess, and it is likely that you will remain at the same level without increasing your advancement at the speed you would like. Studying daily with strategies in mind will develop your skills in English because the repetitive habit will become faster and shape the manner in which you learn.

To specifically prepare for skills which are tested on standardized tests such as TOEFL, IELTS, TOEIC, GMAT, and GRE to target your abilities to improve test-taking, reading, listening, speaking, writing, note taking, analyzing, critical thinking, integrating, synthesizing, grammar, and vocabulary.

When you make the web your classroom, you have a broad base to develop your own unique approach which you are comfortable with to learn English successfully.

TOEFL Independent Writing Task Topic–Type 1: Choose a Side

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The writing section of the TOEFL analyzes how well you can communicate in written English. In the independent question (writing question 2,) one question topic will be presented. You will need to address the question, developing an opinion essay. In order to score well on that task, it is crucial to identify exactly what the question asks by picking out keywords, the important ideas found in the question. Then, create a logical response to directly answer the question by keeping all ideas on topic. If you do not respond to the question and by accident go off topic, it will lower your score.

Hundreds of different TOEFL independent task writing topics exist. One essay topic might ask about family, education, technology, travel, or another subject. The advantage you have is that only a couple different types of questions are presented. Let’s look at a few examples of just one specific type that is the most common: choose a side (either 1 or 2: agree/disagree.) With Choose a Side (Agree/Disagree) questions, choose to either agree or to disagree with the given statement, and then explain your choice.

By examining some samples of Agree/Disagree type of topics, you can pick out essential keywords to focus on. Look at what the question asks, and then select nouns which lead the idea. Pay attention to quantifiers such as all, superlatives such as most, best, comparatives such as more than, better, and conjunctions such as and as well as or that connect two key nouns since these may alter the meaning of how you respond with reasons and examples. You can also consider synonyms or related terms for those key nouns that you can integrate into your writing.

  1. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? All university students should take basic science courses even if science is not a major field for them.
  2. Do you agree or disagree with following statement? The most important characteristic of a leader and a politician is a good communication skill.
  3. Do you agree or disagree that face-to-face communication is more effective to produce better work than e-mail communication?
  4. Today, young people are expected to follow or obey rules that are too strict. Do you agree or disagree?
  5. Do you agree or disagree movies and televisions have more negative effects than positive effects on young people?
  6. Do you agree or disagree? Some people think that to go on field trips (such as a museum) is an important part of an education for a child. Others think that a child should spend time on classwork at school.