2976. Toward Excellence
A couple days
ago I was walking along the street sidewalk and caught a conversation between
two young people, a girl and a young man, okay.
This second one was saying that
he would get 3 at next English language exam – out of 10, remember: in Spain we
grade 0 through 10, with decimals too.
And I thought, what can we do in Spain
concerning learning and acquiring English as a foreign language? I cannot judge
that young man, the one with his 3, and I don’t know him, but I ask myself what
we can do in our country regards mastering a foreign language, the one which is
the most widely used in our planet…
I guess in my country we still are far from
a culture of foreign languages, although this is changing more and more, and
you can also hear speaking in English on the street, more than before.
By no
way do I condemn my colleagues’ labor, who have to bear with their students,
perhaps in a large classroom and with a lot of them.
Let’s prepare and train
our students in mastering English through a communicative approach, by also
making them aware of the marvelous step we have to jump over to reach another
kind of standard regarding English and other foreign languages.
Those
colleagues are training more and more students to pass for example B2, C1 and
C2: respectively equal to First Certificate, Advanced and Proficiency, within
Cambridge Examinations and within the Common European Framework of Reference
for Languages. / Photo from: bleacherreport com. Olympic athletes have set an example of striving and struggling for good
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