Getting Ready for Presentation

    After the mid-term, one of my classes proposed that I do a presentation about the pedagogy of communicative language learning. Of course, I at least had the roughest idea of what communicative teaching or learning was since I am a senior of the department of English education. Well, the funny part was that comprehension did not fully or completely relate to production of the English language. In other words, it was pretty facile for me to simply sit down in class and listen to the professor lecture about the history and implication of communicative language teaching. Communicative language learning, as its name evidently suggests, emphasized meaningful communication among diverse interlocutors and delved into the interactive aspect of language learning. Come to think of it, it is rather simple to apprehend for a student like myself who has attended the university for almost five years.
Nonetheless, the day finally came for me to present to the class regarding communicative language learning, I realized that I somewhat fumbled and failed to deliver a clairvoyant and crystal-clear speech that anyone could readily immerse in. Yes! I felt that I had made several mistakes on this and that, and do you know what the funny thing was? Neither the professor nor the students attending my presentation were cognizant of my blemish! Maybe they were indeed acquainted with my making the mistake or they simply did not reckon my mistake as that serious. Either way, I was praised for delivering a sound and comprehensible presentation despite my staggering and hesitant utterance here and there in the middle of the presentation.
I guess that practice does make perfect, and the fact that I barely had the time to practice right after the mid-term exam couldn't be truer since I was the only one that kind of felt that I was not perfect. Nevertheless, I will not stop here and be satiated with the skill set that I possess enough to be lauded. I will go on and put in effort to not be succumbed to exterior, attenuating praises that might instigate me to take a wrong path in the near future. Beautiful Night...