Basic flaws of language education.

My terrible experience at the Casa Shalahoo School does have one benefit.

It's an opportunity to analyze the failures of traditional

language education. As you know, language programs have a failure rate of

over 95 percent, which is terrible. Why do they fail so much? What is wrong with

language education all over the world.

Of course, I know many of the reasons,

because I know the research on this topic.

But it's interesting to experience this failure again

as a student. It's interesting to analyze what the schools do and how they

think. In fact, I believe the fundamental problems are mental. The reason language schools fail is that they

hold certain incorrect beliefs. These beliefs affect their teaching methods, their

attitudes, and their behavior. their which schools and teachers hold.

Well, number one, teachers can and should force students to speak.

This is called the output belief.

Most teachers think that output, speaking and writing, is most important in language education.

Therefore, they try to force their students to speak and write frequently.

They do this even with beginning students, forcing them to speak the language before they are ready.

The problem is, this belief is totally wrong.

We don't learn language by speaking or writing. We learn from input, listening, and reading.

Research shows that understandable input, listening and reading, is the fastest, most efficient, and indeed the only

way to learn a language.

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