4 reasons people go to school

Working with students of different age, background and ability, I am usually asked a question ‘Why should we go to school?’ Personally, I believe this question is crucially important for any student to ask their instructor, and its answer is worth studying and clearing knowing.

Also, I am a kind of [...]

Don't complain: Positive Mental Attitude (PMA)

Tweet While I am writing this article, I am in one of my MA classes called Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). This class marks the second semester of my 2-year MA study program.

Coming to class, I feel like almost everything is the same, except that I am learning with a new [...]

8 Wrong Reasons to Take 2 Majors at the Same Time

In late 2005 when I first enrolled in the degree of Bachelor of Education (in TEFL) at the Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL), there were around 30 students in my class, and more than half of them majored in another skill in another university. Today, while my sister is taking her Bachelor of [...]

Slow Success

Before I elaborate my points in this article, I just want to make one thing clear that the theme, title, and photo used in this article are taken from a book titled “The Slight Edge: Secret to a successful life” written by Mr. Jeff Olson, one of the USA’s legendary motivational [...]

Independent learning: how to learn without your teacher

There is one famous Cambodian saying which goes “Chorng Ches Oy Samlab A Cha”. It literally means ‘if we want to become knowledgeable, we have to kill our teacher’. In a funny kind of way, many gang-like Cambodian students use this direct meaning of the saying to threaten their teachers, which [...]

Independent learning: learning beyond the classroom

While I am writing this article, I am about to have lunch in a local restaurant in Banan mountain resort, one of the most tourist-attracted sites in Battambang province, which is approximately 400 km from Phnom Penh, Cambodia. I am on a 10-day translation-interpretation mission with an international non-governmental organization to five provinces [...]

First month of a new class with a new goal and hope

Today is October 06, 2010, which means I have already attended courses of Master of Arts in Teaching English to Students of Other Languages (MA in TESOL) at the Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL), Cambodia, for one month.

To most students (and people), one month is actually not a [...]

How to choose good learning partners

“Don’t work individually in a group,” says Roth Hok, former head of the English Department, Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL), Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Personally, I like studying alone. Since high school (the time that I started to actually care about education and my learning progress), I have been a strong believer [...]

How to kill your nervousness in public speaking

Allow me to start this article with a simplified version of the definition of nervousness that can help you understand this article better. For me, I think nervousness is somehow similar to fear, thus they can be used interchangeably. In a few words, nervousness is a feeling of worry and anxiety. [...]

Is Talk Really Cheap?

Using today’s telephone rate in Cambodia, I can say with certainty that talk is not cheap because talking on the phone for one hour can cost you up to $ 5 USD if you use normal service scheme of any one of the 9 telephone operating companies in Cambodia. Also, there [...]

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