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Why You Failed to Learn English at School: 3 Compelling Reasons
08.04.2024 14:37
Just think: 10 whole years spent memorizing irregular verbs and retelling “topics”, and you still can’t speak English fluently.
Let's figure out what prevented you from mastering a foreign language while studying at school.
Not enough lessons
Unfortunately, the 2-3 English lessons per week that you had are simply not enough to master the language.
In addition, in addition to the foreign language, there were other lessons, the preparation for which probably took a lot of time and effort.
Although the goal of the school curriculum is to provide basic knowledge, even this cannot always be achieved without additional classes.
Overcrowded classroom
No one will argue that the effectiveness of individual lessons is an order of magnitude higher than that of group lessons.
At school, the teacher was faced with the task of ensuring that all students had approximately the same level of knowledge - as a result, all efforts were directed at pulling up those who were lagging behind, while not enough attention was paid to those who were capable.
Rules come first
Another feature of school education is that more time was often devoted to learning rules than to communication.
On the one hand, this decision seems reasonable, because in order to learn a language, you first need to understand how it works. However, if you stick to this principle in your work, you may never get to practice.
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