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What is Language? With Christian from Canguro English (pt.1)
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What's the Problem With How We Teach English or Languages?
I know that you have quite strong opinions about this. But I want to hear it from you. What, what's the problem with how we teach English or languages in general? Yeah. After really considering it for a long time and after really reading a lot about the problems, I think basically the number one cause of the problems is testing. Testing forces teachers and students to only study things that can be right or wrong, essentially. To be able to give a test, you have to break language down into these little problems,. And it's really, it damages language teaching and language learning in basically every way. If you removed the requirement of testing from, from any classroom, and if you
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