6 reasons independent learning is important

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I distinctly remember when I was a high school student, my instructors usually advised me to spend more time to study on my own after each class. Then, some teachers would go extreme to recommend that I had to spend double time in self-learning for the time I studied at school. [...]

Improve concentration in independent learning

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Concentration is very important and highly needed for any learning or self-learning activity to be efficiently and effectively productive. With high level of concentration, a student can achieve or complete more work by spending less time. However, it is not really easy to maintain concentration due to modern technology and constant [...]

Independent learning: how to learn without your teacher

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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

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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 [...]

How to choose good learning partners

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“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 [...]

Definition of education: what is and is not education?

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From 2005-2009, I undertook my Bachelor of Education in English Language at the Institute of Foreign Language (IFL), Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP). Before I joined the program, I really had not known what the course would take me. But now that I graduated with such a good academic success [...]

5 Reasons to Keep Learning Always

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From my humble opinion, I can say that most students, at least those in Cambodia, get confused that their education starts and ends at school. They believe that they just learn in schools and stop learning once they are out of schools.

Of course, this belief is lame, childish, [...]