Knowledge is imminently useful that we have to face the fact that we are useless and meaningless without having knowledge.In conjunction with the advancement of technology and communication system in today's life, obtaining knowledge has become much easier and faster.Now everything could be obtained as fast as a bullet train or even faster where it's just at our finger tips.By just flicking and dragging ones can get information throughout without boundaries.



English language is one portion of knowledge for it has its own benefit for the learner.Undeniably knowledge of english can bring people to the top of the world!!! I hope I am not overboard with this statement .I am indeed positive that in order to gain varieties of knowledge in the world ones must possess knowledge of english first. This is due to the sources of particular knowledge are written in english.Besides, those who have better ability to speak in english are very common potray as more successful and more accepted and respected by the community.



Throughout years of teaching english particularly in Kelantan state, a state which is renowned as less developed and poor mastery of english language, the teaching task is not always amusing and exciting but on the other hand has become extremely challenging and very prone to cause the teacher demotivated and demoralised.!!!English is not highly regarded as useful knowledge to be either appreciated or valued.

We may become the enemy of our own students if we do not know how to tackle and win their hearts. High skills and brilliant teaching techniques must be blended with the use of good psychology are immensely needed to attract their attention. Ultimately our students wouldn't even bother to lend their ears to us if we use fully english in class or force them to communicate in english.For them they dare to be scolded or punished rather than uttering out in english language.They are very pessimistic towards english that cause them to scare to death.The students have been very much overwhelmed with their kelantanese language and dialect which lead them to feel uneasy to accept english language.

These are just a few instances of how teachers confront with the challenge of teaching english in Kelantan. I used to have students who did not interested in learning english at all because for them it's a waste of time.They'd rather learn other languages as they're more beneficial and also more exciting.These phenomenon getting worse when there were also my colleagues obtain the same thinking and mentality which have caused those students to think they were right.

I used to feel so down,depressed,demotivated and confused !!! I was wrong for labeling english as knowledge that could bring people to the top of the world... yet the fact is without english knowledge people still could survive and smile to the whole world. I regretted myself for being an english teacher for giving the least benefits to students compared to teach other subjects like mathematics and sciences. In fact as an english teacher, it's very hard for me to accomplish satisfaction because majority of my students only gain a bit from the teaching...they still comfortable to communicate in their mother tongue language and as for grammar lesson they just know the name of tenses like present tense, past tense and future tense and claim that they never understand how to use these tenses in sentences or phrases.

Ahh....whatever it is we have to count the blessings...Every silver has its lining. God has fated me to be an english teacher and I'm very grateful for that. As a teacher I have to throw away all the negative thoughts towards my career and walk forward for a brighter future...May GOD bless me for what I've been doing to my students .