In Spain, the percentage of students who fail English is always high. They fail English every single year. They don't know how to write, how to talk, how to read a text... they don't know anything or THEY THINK THEY DON'T KNOW... How is this possible if they have studied English since they started primary school? Is it because of teachers, books, methodologies, feelings of anxiety and embarrassment when using the language, lack of motivation? What do you think is/are the main reason/reasons for this failure? What about your experience?
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*This activity was designed to practise "expressing opinions" with my SMR students this year. They have to write a comment about this topic, express their opinions and be resfecful (NETIQUETTE)
Hello, me opinion respect your topic is what problem, insufficient leasons for teachers , I small chill not understan english and teachers no explain good.
ResponderEliminarHehe, I think the students think that it's very difficult and they're "scared" from the subject. I don't know why they think it...
ResponderEliminarI think english isn't difficult for me, so I can't say how it feels.
yeah, students are afraid of speaking English! Rubén, you are lucky because your interest will help you learn and improve a lot.
EliminarHello i think what the students arent studing enought english because everybody think that english isnt important
ResponderEliminari think that it isnt enought class at the week
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ResponderEliminarMy opinión is: That the spanish student don't know the importan of speaking a secon lenguaje. The spanish students and ofthen their parentes think the English not valid on future. But, when you know the new communications systems and study advanced courses fail i English. I think in Spain, is given more importance to other subjects, not as necessary that the English.
ResponderEliminarSPAIN IS DIFFERENT!!!!
I think that the students don't practise the lenguage and, the teachers don't work for that
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion the education system in Spain is not good.
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion, that is because the teachers mostly isn't qualified and the system education isn't sufficiently good.
ResponderEliminarI think that the problem is the little interest of students
ResponderEliminarMy opinion is this:
ResponderEliminarWe learn English at primary school but only vocabulary and we only know say dog, cat and apple.
We learn all the years the same in high school. To be, can, irregular verbs and comparative and no practices the language only learn about it.
And finally I think we must practice in the school and with native people because we can write perfect English but we must know speak too.
Thanks Lucas for your opinion. I agree with the fact that in primary students should study more things and start speaking!
EliminarIn secondary, we always learn the same although I believe this is changing thanks to some teachers who go beyond grammar.
It would be perfect to have native speakers in class...but I think that's impossible.
In my opinion, the education system is bad. Now, the young children, are learning English since I start school. In my time, didn't.
ResponderEliminaryeah, the system needs to be changed. However, now 3 year-olds are already learning English, as you said. thanks for your opinion!
EliminarWell, I think in our country we have never gave English the importance it deserves, but this is changing. We have only to see how it is increasing by instance its presence in "ciclos formativos".
ResponderEliminarHowever I think we should spend more time speaking English in class. In fact I think we should give the class entirely in English, although this requires more effort on our part. I also would increase at least to five
weekly hours this subject.
That's all.
In my opinion is because of the education and some teachers
ResponderEliminar*we have never GIVEN
ResponderEliminar*we ONLY have to see
Enrique I agree with you in everything. I have taught English five and six hours a week with one group and it makes a difference! thanks for your comment!
I agree with you Belen.
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion , the Education system have a lot of bugs , teachers should teach English pronunciation and vocabulary in Primary and not only basical English like (Dog , cat , do verb , etc)
Spain is doing it wrong , it doesn't happen in others countries like Germain or France. They start learning "hard" english soon.
I think the main reason is that English language and Spanish language are very different, but also, in Spain, traditionally, it hasn't been given to the importance of English language has to have. Now we are realizing how important is English language.
ResponderEliminarI'm 21 years old and I've never learned phonethics until this year. So yeah, I'm agree with you just because if teachers will teach better since we are young (doing speeches, working in groups and so on) students would improve their knowledge helping in a future to get a job.
ResponderEliminarThank you for all your comments, they were very interesting!
ResponderEliminarFrom my point of view, Spanish learners find English difficult because...
1. The educational system does not provide a good system for the teaching of languages. This is the main problem. It is very difficult to teach English with this system
2. A language should not be studied as a subject. A language is not maths or history. It is a language and a language is learnt not only in a classroom
3. The teaching of English in primary should be changed
4. The teaching of English in secondary needs more qualified teachers whose passion is English
5. There is no motivation on the part of teh students towards the forign language. No interest, no effort, no time devoted to the language..... imply failure.
Thanks for your opinions!
In my opinion that's true, my experience is that since primary, I studyed Inglish during more year. However the metode, in my opinion, was very bad. The teachers weren't appropriate
ResponderEliminarI think that the educational system compels the student to memorizar grammar and verbs as a theorem. As consequence, the student only learns english for doing the exam, not for using it in his lifetime.
ResponderEliminarThis is the principal reason that is why a lot of people despite five years learning english, they have still speaked a bad english.
The government spends a lot of time with this method, now is the moment to change it.