DON’T INSIST ON ENGLISH

By Patricia Ryan Anyeong! Thanks to God who still give me bless and mercy to live so that I can post this blog. Anyway, today, I’d like to post a summary of video. It is a ted talks video by Patricia Ryan. She made a video with the topic don’t insist on English for 10.35. I think this is an interest topic because as an English language student, we insist on English indirectly. We pushing ourselves to must be like a native speaker of English language especially. We are trying to love it so that we can make it a part of our life. By summarize this video, hope you will find some advices or you can learn how to put your English properly. In this video, she tells about her and her friend experience in teaching English. Okay. At the beginning, Patricia opens with a joke which say that the audience perhaps think she has lost her way and guided by someone to back to her seat. It gives the audience an attractive interaction. We will ask, so, who is the old woman come to back stage and speak? Actually, she is a teacher in the gulf for over 30 years. She is a witness of a lot of changes in language in the globalization of English. Based on what she experience and compare between her period and globalization era, languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days and now at the same time, English is the undisputed global language. As her experience when the government in Kuwait wanted to modernize the country and empower the citizens through education by teaching English of 26 British Council teachers. The major change she has seen was how teaching English has morphed from being a mutually beneficial to becoming a massive international business that it is today. No longer just a foreign language on the school curriculum, and no longer the sole domain of mother England, it has become a bandwagon for every English-speaking nation on earth and why not? After all, the best education according to the latest World University Rankings is to be found in the universities of the U.K. and the U.S. So everybody wants to have an English education, naturally. But if you're not a native speaker, you have to pass a test. She reminds that the giants upon whose shoulders today's intelligentsia stand did not have to have English, they didn't have to pass an English test. Case in point, Einstein. He, by the way, was considered remedial at school because he was, in fact, dyslexic. But fortunately for the world, he did not have to pass an English test. Because they didn't start until 1964 with TOEFL, the American test of English. Now it's exploded. There are lots and lots of tests of English. And millions and millions of students take these tests every year. Maybe we think "Those fees aren't bad, they're okay," but they are prohibitive to so many millions of poor people. So immediately, we're rejecting them. A headline she saw recently. "Education: The Great Divide." It is a reason why people would want to focus on English because they want give their children the best chance in life and need Western education. Based on a story that she told about two scientists who could not get the results of their experiment and did not know what to do until they came to a German scientist, we can learn something. If we can not think and we are stuck, but if another language can think that thought, then, by cooperating, we can achieve and learn so much more. One more example from her about her daughter who has studied in Kuwait. She had to translate her subjects into English. It tell us that when a language dies, we don't know what we lose with that language. Last think she delivered. People who have no light, whether it's physical or metaphorical, cannot pass our exams, and we can never know what they know. Let us not keep them and ourselves in the dark. Let us celebrate diversity. Mind your language. Use it to spread great ideas.

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