Strengthening the Armament
By Roland Rainier Z. Adriano
In the advent of globalization, proficiency in the English Language has been the most sought weaponry of every individual who engages in a competitive career battlefield. The proficiency of the English Language, whether it is oral or written discourse, gives a very good cutting edge among its competitors. This is what the FEU English Language Circle is focusing on. And for us, being the students of the English Language, it gives us a very good vantage point of the medium.
The objectives of the organization are getting closer to its realization. It is apparent on how the graduates, and even the students, of FEU English Language, have applied their knowledge on their field of interest. One of the most popular examples is the employment of graduates in the call centre industry through which the exhibit their mastery of the language by way of oral discourse. Moreover, the ELC is continuously providing opportunities to its members to showcase their ability and their proficiency, not only in academics but also in their extracurricular activities: essay writing contest, extemporaneous speaking, scrabble championships, battle of the brains. The quest of ELC in establishing very good strong core competency to every student is very dynamic and at the same time, effective. It is expected that every graduate of the English Language will have his own fine weapons that he can use in the fierce and competitive career battlefield.
Yet, these are not entirely what ELC is aiming. The entire faculty do not train us to be just mere followers; they have instead to us the value of leadership. Our ideas are not entirely confined in providing services, our mastery of the language is good enough for us to advocate on something. The way we get along with language or our communicative competence will give us strong push forward, ahead of others to lead the race and to be someone that the can look up to. Our academic professors will just give us the theories, it is up to us on how to use them to e able to stand out and make ourselves known. Just like one of the characteristics of language, which is productivity, our proficiency can allow us to explore the unknown and bring pride to everyone.
Touching down to reality, our world has given us a very challenging role to play. We have established our core competency and excelled n various fields, yet those are not enough. We pioneer or advocate strategies yet we are not done. All we need is to expand, explore, to conquer the vast regions of our horizons. To be brave in facing challenges no matter how risky. We are not trained to be confined in one career, believe that having the mastery of the English Language is a very good vessel that will take us to new venture. It will bring us to a very challenging yet fulfilling role. And when everything seems to be getting off-track, we should always remember that we have the mastery f the fundamentals of communication – to speak and to write English. Sure enough that we will never run out of opportunities and having these would have expanded our knowledge base and have developed various core competencies.
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This essay piece garnered the first prize in the Magnum Opus Zero One: Elcians Quest for Excellence sponsored by FEU English Language Circle. The author, Roland Rainier Z. Adriano is a senior AB English Language student.
