ESL Doesn't Work
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Has ESL in its current global form failed to achieve its primary purpose, helping learners to speak comfortably? I'd say "Yes" and I'd say it the failure was systemic. I'd been wondering if there was any research on it. This is what I found and how it links to what I created in 2001 and have been working on ever since, English Out There (http://englishoutthere.com)
ESL Doesn't Work
- 1. ESL Doesn't Work... ....if you want to learn to speak English comfortably Jason West 20 years in ELT Publisher of English Out There, now confirmed as the world's first social media English course. Interested in social and mobile learning and the eradication of pointless time in the classroom. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.
- 2. The truth hurts 1000 hours of ESL improved their speaking the same as... ...1000 hours of NO ESL This is incredible, but true. To download visit: http://www.cic.gc. ca/english/resources/evaluation/linc/2010/impact. asp
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- 7. "Anger is an energy" J. Rotten
- 9. Know your place
- 10. Stop moaning
- 11. Rebel
- 12. Out with the old
- 13. Speaking is messy
- 14. The tools
- 15. Pitch perfect
- 16. It's not called English as a second language for nothing What would happen to humanity if 2bn people earnt an extra 25% in their lifetime?