My Love and Hatred to ...

As for me, English is not my native language since i was very young. I usually feel more comfortable to have a passive communication (like listening) with the other in English rather than an active communication such as speaking in English with friends. However, when i first came to Singapore, i know i can't avoid communicating with each other in English. Rather i found that it will affect me so much from my studies to my future career. Thus i decided to take this module ES2007S this semester hoping that it will put me in the practice of having professional communication skills in my daily life, and it is in ENGLISH!!!

After roughly browse through the textbook of this module, i found this module is very useful as it has given us an insight that communication is so important that it involved almost every part in our life. This module seems has broken down our daily communication to those very small and detailed skills that we will look into in depth for the whole semester.

First of all, we are reminded of the barriers of having active listening which is one of the key problems in our poor communication. I can't deny that I have poor listening skills in a way that i always slow in listening but quick in speaking. In many times I thought that I have already understood the speaker's meaning, but finally I found that I didn't actually. Sometimes i even tend to judge a person's meaning and behaviors before i truly lending my ears to listen to what he/she is going to say. By learning the barriers of active listening during the 1st few lectures, I think it will help me to achieve a better communication with the others in the future.

I also wish that through the practices that we are going to have in this module, my fear and resistance to converse in English will be overcome. Somehow I believe that I will enjoy this module with our class fellows seeing that we have a lot more to learn together in the next few lessons. :)