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After the simulated teaching, Miss Kasthoori and some of my friends gave me some suggestion to improve on my weaknesses in simulated teaching. The comment that Miss Kasthoori gave me was although I got the idea and creativity in teaching, but the extract I have choosen is rather too long and it will somehow "kill" students' interests. But then the biggest problem in my simulated teaching that my friends and collegues commented is not the length of the extract, but is my English speaking skills proficiency.

My biggest weakness is the first language influence in my speaking. I received Chinese education since I was small, and I rarely communicate using English with my friends outside from the classrooms, plus, I am lazy to read on English materials such as novels and newspapers, that is way my English proficiency level has never improve. For example when I was in simulated teaching speaking English, my sentences and utterances usually end by "lo", "ar" and many more. My chinese accent is also one of the main problem that cause my pronunciation in English inaccurate.

Therefore, they suggest that I really should start change the language I speak everyday to English and start involving English reading materials in my daily life. Yes, although Chinese is my mother toungue and it is important to remind me what race I am but yet, I am going to be a future English teacher, whether I like it or not, I had to and is a must for me to improve my level of proficiency in English language speaking skills. Not because I had to pass or score in this paper, and not about pride of being a UPM TESL student or future English teacher, but is the responsibility to teach and educate the future students. They remind me that the key word should come to my mind first and always, is not the word "English", but the word "teacher". I am going to bear the responsibility to educate the younger generations and not only the parents, the students count on me. Maybe it sounds too over noble to you all, but I really do feel so. Now, I am still a student, I gain knowledge from my lecturers and they are my role models, and students in future will take me as their role model, if I am not enough capability to teach them even, they will not only lose their confident in me, but in their studies as well. The responsibility I am going to deal with, is their future, I hope all my students will get a better life and be a better person in future, that is why, I need to work hard now. My success in future, will not be lying on how much salary I got paid, but how much students improved through my "hands". I hope I am still not too late for improving myself, I need your support, my friends...Thank you...