Microsoft Word Motivation letter Asila Abdurakhmonova

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Dear selection committee, 
My name is Asila Abdurakhmonova, and I am a fourth-year bachelor student majoring in 
Philology and teaching English at Karshi State University. I am a girl who was born into a 
family of judges and attorneys. 
My family expected me to become a judge or a lawyer like them. 
However, I made a significant change in my future profession and demonstrated to them the 
inverse. I chose to be an English teacher because I foresaw my future as a teacher. Nobody in my 
family expected me to pursue this field. My father initially opposed my decision to become a 
teacher preferring that I continue our family line by becoming a lawyer. 
I could stand up for my 
strong desires and dreams. 
By the means of my high academic performance, I proved to my 
father that I could be an excellent teacher and an expert in the English language field from my 
early school years. I responded extremely well to the English curriculum, with my exam results,
final grades, and assignments achieving the top 1% rank in school. I would attend several 
regional and republican scientific Olimpiads in English.
Finally, my father understood that I had 
a gifted talent for learning and teaching languages. Then my father started supporting me to 
become an English teacher. 
After being admitted to the university, I started to search for opportunities to study abroad. One 
day, a programme on TV caught my attention. 
It emphasized education in Slovakia and the 
benefits it provides to students. 
I discovered the National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak 
Republic, which gives great opportunities to study in Slovakia and fully explore European 
culture. 
During the investigation of the official website of the programme to apply for this 
scholarship, I observed that Matej Bel University is one of the universities eligible for the 
scholarship. 
While getting myself familiar with the university website, I found several reasons 
for studying at Matej Bel University. First of all, the presence of several native English teachers 
in my department at my host university attracted me to choose this university because of the fact 
that the English language is taught by non-native teachers at my home university in Uzbekistan. 
This creates several disadvantages for students in the English language department. During the 
lesson, non-native Uzbek teachers mostly use our national language. That affects the quality of 
the lesson and ruins knowledge and understanding of English. Unlike at my home university, I 
can learn English in the English language, which helps me to increase fluency and cohesion in 
English.
Besides that, Matej Bel University offers several wonderful opportunities, such as career fairs, 
workshops, and many more, making it both dependable and an amazing pick. One distinguishing 
feature of my host university is that it offers international events and seminars for its employees 
and students to strengthen their intercultural skills through a variety of academic and research 
activities held in several languages. I will be able to apply the knowledge I gained from the 
lessons. For example, a seminar named "Global Skills and their Implementation in the 
Framework of Foreign Language Teaching in Secondary Schools as a Means of Developing the 
Key Competencies of Pupils and the Professional Identity of Future Teachers in the Context of