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time for me to know about English. It was very late to study the English language compared
with other classmates who had learned English from Grade One. I could not understand what
the teacher was talking about in English, and also it was the reason to make me hate English
very much.
Figure 5.8: Holly‘s perception of her own learning experience from the ages of 6 to 22
Figure 5.9: Holly‘s perception of her own learning experience in the UK between September 2006 and March
2009
I transferred to another private full-time boarding school in 1999. It is a big and beautiful
school. I was studying in that school for six years (junior high school and senior high
school). There was one English lesson taught by a foreigner teacher each week. The
foreigner teacher just spoke English. It was not an effective way to improve my English,
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