South Korea spends more on learning English than any other

[Vutulaki-san]

Country yet ranks 121 globally in English proficiency....... Retards basically

The news is out and nobody is surprised. This month EF Education First published the English Proficiency Index survey. Both the Korean and international press were quick to react to Korea's poor English ability when compared to 59 other countries.

The Korea Herald proclaimed English proficiency in Korea unimproved, while the Wall Street Journal pondered How to cure South Korea's English fever?

In a similar vein, a 2010 article in the Korea Times, Korea ranked number 1 in the world in money spent on English language education and 121st in English speaking ability. Japan has similar disconnect between effort and effect.

On the other hand, also in 2010, in an educational ranking of developed countries, Korean 15-year-olds ranked first in the world in Math, and third in the world in Science.

Why do Korean students perform so well in Math and Science, and so poorly in speaking English? Well, in math class, they give math tests. In science class, they give science tests.

Simply put, what gets tested gets done, and communicative speaking ability is not tested. Thus – surprise – there is little communicative ability.

In general, most university freshmen classes contain advanced students, but beginning speakers. They have had 10 years of grammar-focused, teacher-centered English education. The three high school years are generally “test English”, that is, English courses geared to passing university entrance exams. In all those 10 years, students have had none or very few communicative classes, or communicative tests. Thus, their communicative rank of 121st.

Despite huge investment and educational zeal, the English language skills of Korea’s adults have not improved and have remained at a moderate level over the past six years... - Korea Herald
The problem is not that students in a Confucian society are reluctant to speak. If given an interesting topic that they know a lot about (Me), opportunity (class time), and incentive (speaking tests), they are effusive speakers, as are all teenagers. In consequence, a lot of speaking requires a way to test a lot of speaking. Communicative classes require communicative testing.

7 reasons why communicative tests are necessary

1. Communication is in our genes, not grammar. Grammar is computer code. The human brain develops in children as language develops. Stop messing with mother nature. Grammar-based tests are used because it is easy to mark right or wrong, not because it improves communicative speaking.

2. Good grammar comes after a lot of speaking, not before. It is a result, not a precondition.

3. Communicative ability will flow only from communicative tests. What gets tested gets done.

4. For teenagers and older, speaking a foreign language is a skill.And mastering any skill requires this ratio: 10% instruction, 90% practice.

5. What is the purpose of your class? To prepare them for another standardized English test, or prepare them for life?

6. Most Korean students are advanced students, but beginning speakers. Step aside and let them speak. Beginners in any skill who do a lot, improve a lot.

7. The engine of speaking improvement is speaking.

The restriction, the bottleneck, to improving speaking ability is speaking tests. When speaking is tested, grammar-graded speaking tests result in more grammar study, and memorizable role-playing speaking tests result in more memorizing. Other indirect testing measures such as describing a picture have little authenticity and less impact. Speaking ability can be tested en masse over the Internet. While all these testing methods may provide an accurate measure of something, that something is nothing like authentic communication.

[Vutulaki-san]

Im sorry you low verbal IQ gooks, you cant learn a language by reading books and hiding in your little filthy numba 85 income ranking ghettos.

You cant cram English you need to be able to THINK
Stupid mother fuckers believe sleeping with a fan on will kill you.

Korean men actually stood and watched kids drowning due to their word famous cowardice and retarded confucian culture.

Young korean restaurant owners have to lie about not owning the business when trying to hire chefs older than them ROR

Just genocide South Korea, NKers might be saved by SKers are beyond rescue at this point....

[Som-Pong]

It's how I conduct all of my private classes, just conversation. No fn worksheets or shit.

[Winnson]

Damn fine post.

[Turanian Trashtalker]

Awwwww nigger got his poor widdle fee fees upset and now he is throwing a tantrum!

Boo hoo hoo

Face it you worthless abo faggot, your kind cannot take a joke without threatening violence, wishing genocide on an entire race, or invoking harm on either themselves or others. I've seen you do all of the above, not just on this forum but everywhere else... I've had countless such interactions with Afro-Americans and niggers are pretty much the same all across the planet. Violent, dumb, illogical, impulsive, and permanently cursed with MA-O deficiency

What kind of retard threatens to kill a Canadian kid because of something he read on the internet? Only a retarded abo nigger. This is the level of insanity we are talking about here.

I wouldn't be surprised if you actually killed your own mongrel kids in a drunken abo rage after an argument with your gaedok cunt wife... You are an irredeemable sad sack and the ONLY cure for your sickness is a 40 mm to the right temple, just off yourself now and spare us the inconvenience of reading your drunken shit posting

That is GENETICS (unlike Korea's shit English, which is a product of the education system... Korean students studying abroad are rapid English learners), and unlike Korean culture, this cannot be fixed, no way, no how. Warrior gene ftw!

Go kill yourself gae seki, it's your specialty, considering that you've chosen to embrace the gook culture and all

[Vutulaki-san]

Somebody's mad.


ROR!

[Turanian Trashtalker]

Can't even read your bullshit

Not going to bother

[Turanian Trashtalker]

lol

I longer how long it would take me to dox this gae seki and find out his wife's contact info?

Vutu was stupid enough to let me find out her church... It'll take me less than three hours, tops, to find a gook female in Sydney married to an Indo-Fijian who teaches piano and has two kids. (How many of those are there?) Maybe I can help her get sole custody of them, it'll do them a big favor, seeing as how being raised by a violent hyper-emotional ape can't be good for their development

You abo piece of shit you've been trying to dox Don Johnson for months now (and failing at it I might add), who has done literally nothing to harm you, so this is exactly what you deserve, nothing less. Tit for tat.

After all... I am on friendly terms with stanford graduates in computer engineering, and they owe me favors. Being a science bitch sure has its perks doesn't it?

Vutu has a long record of admitting to various criminal acts and posting hate speech against the gaedok wife's ancestry, that's can't go down very well in PC kunt Australia, which doesn't even have freedom of speech protected by the constitution (LOL)

And don't bother deleting shit gae seki, everything is archived, and not by me either.

333 powar! Which one of us is going to get banned first?

[Vutulaki-san]

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[Turanian Trashtalker]

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh"