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1st grade
I was able to read and write before I started Elementary School in Korea. -
2nd grade
I didn't struggle with reading and writing. I was also expert on reading and writing in Korea. -
3rd grade
I started to lose my motivation of learning as the literacy got harder. I was so afraid that I was not able to do much as other peers. -
4th grade
My literacy was getting better with teacher's support and starting get more confidence on reading and writing. -
5th grade
I started to lose my motivation again because of harder literacy and other subjects -
6th grade
My learning skills were not developing and improving at all even though I tried hard. -
7th grade
I moved to United States as immigrant and started to learn English, and everything was very new to me. I had hard time understanding new language. Because the English literacy of reading, writing, and speaking was different than Korea literacy, I stressed out a lot. -
8th grade
My english started to get better with teacher's help in ESL class. I was hard on reading and writing, but speaking was not improving. I had a lot of Korean friends, and that caused me to have hard time to improve my speaking. -
9th grade
I became a freshmen in high school, I started to get more new friends and started to use my english more. All the new friends came from different countries, and it gave my a lot of opportunity to speak more in english to talk to them. -
10th grade
I started to study more and improve my literacy skills to graduate from ESL class. -
11th grade
I finally finished or graduated from ESL class and took the normal English class with peers. The normal class was very different than ESL, but I still had good time learning. -
12th grade
During my senior year, I prepared for my college application and graduated from High School.
