Why can't my son speak English?
"Why can't my son/daughter speak English? He/She has been learning it for two years."
This is a very common question I receive quite often. To EFL students, the biggest hurdle in learning English lies not in memorize vocabulary, but in communication - listening and speaking. And the one and only solution to this problem is to provide a total English environment - from classroom to living room. This calls for a co-learning including teachers, classmates, parents, and brothers/sisters. When everybody is learning at the same time, the biggest hurdle will then disappear.
posted by Herman Chiu @ 12:08 AM
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Not that I am an expert, but I think you are right that is near an ideal environment for learning a second language. The problem I had learning a second language was that I had little opportunity to use it and everything was decontextualized---I couldn't learn new vocabulary naturally, through experiences, like people normally do.
I think language immersion is the best (and perhaps only) good way for language learning. The challenge is to simulate immersion in a classroom setting - learning language through content.
~merete
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