Don’t insist on English by Patricia Ryan (2010)

TED Talk

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In the video Patricia Ryan talks about some languages ​​that have been lost. He lived and taught in the Bay for 30 years. At that time he saw many changes regarding English as the language of globalization of the world.

He tells his friend who teaches in Abu Dhabi, who takes his students to the garden to learn natural vocabulary. The students learn all the words of the local plants to use them for personal use, from which he sees to learn the language needs to be across the generations of their grandparents.

English as an indisputable language in the world, English is related to the many changes that occurred in the Gulf as he taught there. Patricia Ryan and with 25 of her friends at Recruit by the British Council, and they are the first non-Muslims to teach in Kuwait's state-run school. They are brought to teach English there, because the government wants to modernize the country and to empower its citizens through education.

Patricia sees teaching English as a profitable practice to become a big international business, not just foreign languages ​​in the school curriculum and there is no dominant English language as a mother tongue that has been bandwagon into English on Earth. Yes why not, because English is the best language in the world. Studying English is one of them for education at universities in the UK and America, so everyone wants to have an English education naturally.

Being an English teacher is like a gatekeeper, must teach English well enough. And how to teach about research in English, books in English and journals in English, but only delft-fulfilling prophecy is only a requirement for English. And about the translator of the golden age of Islam who translated from Latin and Greek into Arabic, Persian translated into German from European and Romantic Language. He likes that English is a global language, and he does not use other languages ​​as the obstacle course of all.

For the world does not have to pass English test to be able to speak English, because the TOEFL test is from England for American test. Now the test is exploding, and there are many other English tests and tests. Millions of students take the test every year. Recently he saw education "The Great Divide" and find out why everyone wants to focus on learning English. They want to give children the best chance in life. And to do that, they need western education.