Blog 1

Literature? During my secondary school, that word was a nightmare to me. I started learning literature when I was in form four in 2002. It was a horrible experience for me at that time. This is because, I don’t really familiar yet with English words and suddenly I had to learn literature which using difficult words. Make thing worst, the first lesson was Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare. At first, I felt really terrify but after a few months, I was able to catch up. However, during first test, I got zero mark for literature. How embarrassing. After that, I tried hard to understand what I learnt in literature and made a lot of exercises. The effort that I put really worth it because finally I can answer literature’s question and I also didn’t get zero anymore. Now, as a TESLian the word literature is a complement to me. This is because being in this course makes me have to take variety of subjects related to literature. For example, during my first semester, I took Survey of prose, Malaysian Literature in English during second semester and Teaching the language of short story in third semester. For this semester, I meet with another subject related to literature which is Teaching the language of drama.