Speaking in English Lessons Can Help You Understand Texts Better

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This means that it's important to do plenty of speaking in your English lessons. And speaking about the subject that you're going to be then reading about or listening to. This tells us that if you want to understand a reading text better, you need to get yourself thinking about the subject and start predicting what you might expect to find in it. For example, here's a text about air travel. So you just think about going on a plane and what are the issues related to air travel these days. If you go through that mental process and try and express yourself about it, you'regoing to be able to understand the text better. It does teach you about the psychology of learning a language

Santiago has a top job in the English teaching industry. He is the managing director of English teaching at Oxford University Press. But English is not his first language. He learned it as an adult when he moved to London in his twenties. This conversation explores how he progressed in his English learning and in his career, while dealing with daily challenges and failures in English.

The conclusions are that motivation and positivity are vital, you have to keep going through the difficult times, and you can achieve great things in your career in English even if you're not perfect. This episode should be a boost for the confidence of all English learners! Keep an open mind, keep your eyes on the prize, keep going and your English WILL improve!

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